Paulino Alcántara

**Paulino Alcántara Riestrá** (7 October 1896 – 13 February 1964) was a Filipino and Spanish football player and manager who played as a forward. He spent most of his playing career at FC Barcelona and represented Catalonia, the Philippines and Spain internationally.

In 2007, he was recognized by FIFA as one of the greatest football strikers in the 20th century and the best Asian footballer of all-time.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|Copa d'Espanya|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Regional|colspan="2"|Pyrenees Cup|colspan="2"|Friendly|colspan="2"|Total||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="17"|FC Barcelona|1911–12|rowspan="16"|La Liga|0|0|0|0|1|3|0|0|4|2|5|5|
|1912–13|2|5|2|0|0|0|1|2|20|22|25|31|||||
|1913–14|0|0|0|0|6|1|2|1|30|23|37|24|||||
|1914–15|0|0|0|0|9|4|0|0|23|29|32|33|||||
|1915–16|0|0|4|4|11|25|0|0|14|12|29|41|||||
|1917–18|0|0|0|0|2|0|0|0|4|4|6|4|||||
|1918–19|0|0|5|7|12|11|0|0|21|29|38|47|||||
|1919–20|0|0|3|3|9|14|0|0|29|34|41|51|||||
|1920–21|0|0|0|0|8|7|0|0|11|13|19|20|||||
|1921–22|0|0|4|8|8|19|0|0|12|18|24|45|||||
|1922–23|0|0|0|0|8|7|0|0|32|32|40|39|||||
|1923–24|0|0|7|8|7|4|0|0|36|29|50|41|||||
|1924–25|0|0|2|0|1|0|0|0|10|4|13|4|||||
|1925–26|0|0|6|3|14|4|0|0|8|7|28|14|||||
|1926–27|0|0|4|2|4|2|0|0|9|6|17|10|||||
|1932–33|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|1|0|||||

### International

- _Scores and results list Spain's goal tally first._
|scope=col|No.|scope=col|Date|scope=col|Venue|scope=col|Opponent|scope=col|Score|scope=col|Result|scope=col|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|9 October 1921|San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao, Spain||**1**–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|2.|**2**–0|||||||||||||
|3.|18 December 1921|Campo de O'Donnell, Madrid, Spain||**1**–0|3–1|||||||||
|4.|**2**–0|||||||||||||
|5.|30 April 1922|Stade Sainte-Germaine, Le Bouscat, France||**1**–0|4–0|||||||||
|6.|**2**–0|||||||||||||

- _Scores and results list Philippines's goal tally first._
|scope=col|No.|scope=col|Date|scope=col|Venue|scope=col|Opponent|scope=col|Score|scope=col|Result|scope=col|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|10 May 1917|Shibaura Ground, Tokyo, Japan||||Far Eastern Championship||||||||
|2||||||||||||||
|3||||||||||||||
|4||||||||||||||
|5||||||||||||||
|6||||||||||||||

- _Scores and results list Catalonia's goal tally first._
|scope=col|No.|scope=col|Date|scope=col|Venue|scope=col|Opponent|scope=col|Score|scope=col|Result|scope=col|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|19 May 1915|Campo de O'Donnell, Madrid, Spain|Castile|1–0|2–1|1915 Prince of Asturias Cup||||||||
|2.|6 February 1921|Camp Muntaner, Barcelona, Spain|South West France||5–1|Friendly||||||||
|3.||||||||||||||
|4.|3 April 1921|Camp Muntaner, Barcelona, Spain|Badalona||4–0|Friendly||||||||
|5.|19 September 1926|Guinardó, Barcelona, Spain||3–1|4–3|1926 Prince of Asturias Cup||||||||

## Honours

**FC Barcelona**
- Spanish League Catalan football championship: (10) 1913, 1916, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927
- Copa del Rey: (5) 1913, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926
- Pyrenees Cup: (2) 1912, 1913

**Bohemian S.C. **
- United States Philippines Championship (2): 1917, 1918

**U.S. Philippine national football team**
- Far Eastern Championship Games: (Silver medal) 1917

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Paulino Alcántara
- **image**: Paulino alcantara barca (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Alcántara at FC Barcelona, Barcelona in the 1920s
- **fullname**: Paulino Alcántara Riestrá
- **birth place**: Concepcion, Iloilo, Concepcion, Iloilo, Captaincy General of the Philippines
- **height**: 1.70 m
- **death place**: Barcelona, Francoist Spain, Spain
- **position**: Forward (association football)#Striker, Striker
- **youthclubs1**: FC Galeno
- **youthclubs2**: FC Barcelona (youth), Barcelona
- **years1**: 1912–1927
- **clubs1**: FC Barcelona, Barcelona
- **caps1**: 399
- **goals1**: 395
- **years2**: 1916–1918
- **clubs2**: Bohemian S.C., Bohemian
- **caps2**: 23
- **goals2**: 24
- **nationalyears1**: 1915–1926
- **nationalteam1**: Catalonia national football team, Catalonia
- **nationalcaps1**: 7
- **nationalgoals1**: 8
- **nationalyears2**: 1917
- **nationalteam2**: Philippines national football team, Philippines
- **nationalcaps2**: 11
- **nationalgoals2**: 14
- **nationalyears3**: 1921–1923
- **nationalteam3**: Spain national football team, Spain
- **nationalcaps3**: 14
- **nationalgoals3**: 19
- **manageryears1**: 1951
- **managerclubs1**: Spain national football team, Spain
- **manageryears2**: 1953
- **managerclubs2**: Catalonia national football team, Catalonia