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{{short description|Spanish footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{family name hatnote|Sancho|Agustina|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name           = Agustín Sancho
| image          = Agustín Sancho.jpg
| caption        = Sancho with [[Spain national football team|Spain]] at the [[1920 Summer Olympics]]
| fullname       = Agustín Sancho Agustina
| birth_date     = {{birth date|1896|7|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place    = [[Benlloc]], [[Valencia]], Spain
| death_date     = {{death date and age|1960|8|25|1896|7|18|df=y}}
| death_place    = [[Barcelona]], Spain
| position       = [[Midfielder]]
| years1 = 1911–1915 | clubs1 = [[Unió Esportiva Sants|Gladiator de Sants]] | caps1 = | goals1 =
| years2 = 1915–1916 | clubs2 = [[Unió Esportiva Sants|CE Sants]] | caps2 = | goals2 =
| years3 = 1916–1922 |clubs3 = [[FC Barcelona]] |caps3 = 285 |goals3 = 203
| years4 = 1922–1923 | clubs4 = [[UE Sants]] | caps4 = | goals4 =
| years5 = 1923–1928 | clubs5 = [[FC Barcelona]] | caps5 = | goals5 =
| years6 = 1928–1929 | clubs6 = [[CE Sabadell FC|CE Sabadell]] | caps6 = | goals6 =
| totalcaps = 
| totalgoals = 
| nationalyears1 = 1920&ndash;1923
| nationalteam1 = [[Spain national football team|Spain]]
| nationalcaps1 = 3
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 1921&ndash;1929
| nationalteam2 = [[Catalonia national football team|Catalonia]]
| nationalcaps2 =
| nationalgoals2 =
| manageryears1 = 1922
| managerclubs1 = [[CD Castellón|CE Castellón]]
| manageryears2 = 1923
| managerclubs2 = [[Valencia CF]]
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Association football|football]] }}
{{MedalCountry | {{flagicon|ESP|1785}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[1920 Summer Olympics|1920 Antwerp]] | [[Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics|Team competition]] }}
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Prince of Asturias Cup]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1923-24 Prince of Asturias Cup]]|Team}}<ref name=Prince>{{cite web |url=http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2009/09/la-copa-principe-de-asturias/ |title=La Copa Príncipe de Asturias |trans-title=The Prince of Asturias Cup |language=es |publisher=[[:es:Centro de Investigaciones de Historia y Estadística del Fútbol Español|CIHEFE]] |author=Vicente Martínez Calatrava |date=17 August 2009 |accessdate=27 June 2022 }}</ref>
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'''Agustín Sancho Agustina''' (18 July 1896 – 25 August 1960) was a Spanish professional [[Association football|footballer]] who played as a [[midfielder]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j3008.html |title=Agustín Sancho Agustina - Footballer |website=www.bdfutbol.com |access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref>

==Club career==
Born in [[Benlloc]] ([[province of Castellon]], [[Valencia]]), he moved to [[Sants]] in [[Barcelona]] as a child, and there he played for various clubs in the neighborhood such as [[Unió Esportiva Sants|Gladiator de Sants]], who was later effectively relaunched as the CE Sants. His good performance with Sants aroused the interest of the main Barcelona clubs and, although he had a pre-agreement with [[RCD Espanyol]], he joined [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]] in 1916, for whom he played in the next 12 seasons (Sept 1922-23, because he returned to Sants to defend the newly founded [[UE Sants]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/2004/06/13/pagina-30/776371/pdf.html |title=El Barça arrebata el fichaje de Sancho al Espanyol |trans-title=Barça snatches the signing of Sancho from Espanyol |website=hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com |date=13 June 2004 |access-date=27 June 2022 }}</ref> He was a member of the legendary [[FC Barcelona]] team, coached by [[Jack Greenwell]], that also included [[Paulino Alcántara]], [[Emilio Sagi Liñán|Sagibarba]], [[Ricardo Zamora]] and [[Josep Samitier]], and together with them, he helped Barcelona to win 9 [[Catalan football championship|Catalan championships]] and four [[Copa del Rey]] titles in [[1920 Copa del Rey|1920]], [[1922 Copa del Rey|1922]], [[1925 Copa del Rey|1925]] and [[1926 Copa del Rey|1926]]. In the 1925 final, Sancho scored Barça's second goal of the night in a 2-0 win over [[Arenas Club de Getxo]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/spancup1925.html |title=Spain - Cup 1925 |date=12 February 2001 |website=[[RSSSF]] |accessdate=27 June 2022 }}</ref>

Annoyed after receiving criticism, especially for his overweight, Sancho asked to leave Barcelona in June 1922, returning to his origins, [[Sants]], where he signed for [[UE Sants]], a new-born club from the merger of [[FC Internacional]] and his former club, [[Unió Esportiva Sants]]. The Sansense club also offered him a job as a construction contractor for the [[City Council of Barcelona]], because throughout his career, Sancho had combined football with his work as a bricklayer, since professionalism was not recognized in Spain until the end of the 1920s. Sancho spent only a season at Sants as the leaders of FC Barcelona convinced him to rejoin Barça in June 1923.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/2004/06/26/pagina-17/775225/pdf.html |title=Sancho reaparece en las filas del Barcelona ante el Daring |trans-title=Sancho reappears in the ranks of Barcelona against Daring |website=hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com |date=26 June 2004 |access-date=27 June 2022 }}</ref>

==International career==
He appeared in the [[Spain national football team|Spain national team]] for the [[1920 Summer Olympics]], featuring in two matches against [[Belgium national football team|Belgium]] and [[Italy national football team|Italy]]; Spain won the silver medal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/24951 |title=Agustín Sancho |work=Olympedia |access-date=15 August 2021}}</ref> He earned a third and last cap on 16 December 1923 in a [[Exhibition game|friendly]] against [[Portugal national football team|Portugal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=18407 |title=Agustín Sancho |work=EU-football.info |access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref>

As a [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]] player, he was summoned to play for the [[Catalonia national football team|Catalonia national team]], being a member of the team that won the [[1923-24 Prince of Asturias Cup]], an inter-regional [[Prince of Asturias Cup|competition]] organized by the [[Royal Spanish Football Federation|RFEF]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/c/plantilla.html?temporada=497&club=Catalu%C3%B1a |title=Squad of Cataluña 1923-24 Copa del Príncipe de Asturias |website=www.bdfutbol.com |accessdate=27 June 2022}}</ref> Sancho was a starter in both games of the [[1924 Prince of Asturias Cup Final|infamous final]] against a [[Madrid autonomous football team|Castile/Madrid XI]], helping Catalonia to a 3-2 win in the replay to assure the team's second title of the competition.<ref name=Prince/>

==Managerial career==
In the summer of 1922, Sancho was on holiday in [[Castellón de la Plana|Castellón]] at the same time as the local football team was being founded: [[CD Castellón|CE Castellón]]. Since he was the most experienced and representative footballer in the province, he was offered to lead the first matches of the newly founded. In the following year, he also led some matches in [[Valencia]]. Once retired from football, he was [[José Planas (footballer, born 1901)|José Planas]] assistant in the technical management of FC Barcelona.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}

==Honours==
'''FC Barcelona'''
* '''Copa del Rey: 4''' [[1920 Copa del Rey Final|1920]], [[1922 Copa del Rey Final|1922]], [[1925 Copa del Rey Final|1925]] and [[1926 Copa del Rey Final|1926]]
* '''[[Catalan football championship|Catalan Championship]]: 9''' 1918-19, 1919-20, 1920-21, 1921-22, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27, 1927-28

'''Spain'''
* ''' [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]:''' Silver medallist [[Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics|1920]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{BDFutbol|3008}}
* {{databaseOlympics |id=SACHOAGU01}}
* {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/sancho-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418084910/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/sancho-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18}}

{{Spain squad 1920 Summer Olympics}}
{{Valencia CF managers}}
{{CE Sabadell FC managers}}
{{CF Reus Deportiu managers}}

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[[Category:1896 births]]
[[Category:1960 deaths]]
[[Category:Spanish men's footballers]]
[[Category:FC Barcelona players]]
[[Category:Spanish football managers]]
[[Category:CE Sabadell FC managers]]
[[Category:Valencia CF managers]]
[[Category:Spain men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic footballers for Spain]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Spain]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in football]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Men's association football midfielders]]
[[Category:Catalonia men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Footballers from the Province of Castellón]]
[[Category:Footballers from Barcelona]]
[[Category:CF Reus Deportiu managers]]
[[Category:People from Plana Alta]]


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