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Carlos Jorge Welton Niño was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for Sevilla FC in the early 1890s.

Early life

Isaias White was born in Seville as the son of Josefa Niño, a native of Triana, and George William Welton, an English chemist by profession who owned a small shop on Calle San Jacinto. He had a brother named Enrique.

Their father was also a member of the Círculo Mercantil de Sevilla ("Commercial Circle of Sevilla"), and together with Edward F. Johnston, a fellow British emigrant, they instilled sport as a recreational means in the Spanish members of Círculo, thus eventually creating the Club de Regatas de Sevilla in 1875, a sailing club whose skiffs soon began crossing the Guadalquivir. This club had both Spanish and British members, but it was the latter group who was the driving force of the club, with Welton instructing the Spaniards in the handling of skiffs alongside the likes of William MacPherson and William Hume, remaining active within the club until 1883, when it disappeared.

Sporting career

Early years

During his youth, the Welton brothers practiced rowing and regattas with their friend and neighbor Isaias White, who had also been born in Seville to English parents, so despite being Spanish by birth, they all received a typically English education, thus being familiarized with the practice of football, so much so that in the late 1880s, they decided to create a football team made up of Seville residents.

White worked at his father's foundry, Portilla y White, and as such, he knew some of the British employees of the Seville Water Works Company Limited, so White and the Welton brothers recruited some of them to their new football team. They began to play football at the Hipódromo de Tablada (horse racing track) around the autumn of 1889, since football was a winter sport at the time, but finding 22 individuals (plus the referee) proved to be an impossible task, given that the expatriates came to work and many of them had positions of responsibility. Furthermore, football was a sport practically unknown in the city, so the only sportsmen who knew its rules were of Anglo-Saxon nationality, and thus, unlike the sailing clubs, White's football club only had foreigners, which is why its legalization in Spain never came to fruition, and soon this society, which was never officially established, seems to disappear in that same year.

Sevilla FC

On 25 January 1890, the Welton brothers were among the Seville residents of British origin who founded Sevilla FC, which thus became the second-oldest football club in history, and the oldest one exclusively dedicated to football. Some sources wrongly claim that the Welton brothers started for Sevilla in the first official football match in Spain, but it was only Enrique.

Sevilla and Huelva kept facing each other in the early 1890s, home and away, most notably in October 1892, in which they competed for the so-called Copa del la Raza, and following a harsh tackle on Carlos from Huelva's Pepe Garci, his mother, Josefa Niño, "upset with a blow they had given to his son, entered the field and hit the attacker with a umbrella, so Huelva was also the birthplace of the first, picturesque and harmless known assault on a football field".

Later life

In 1917, Carlos Welton bought the Capilla de los Marineros [es], a Catholic religious temple located in the Triana neighborhood, but 23 years later, on 8 October 1940, the Hermandad de la Esperanza de Triana ("Brotherhood of Hope of Triana") decided to buy it, and after negotiating a deal with HET's former leader José Sebastián y Bandarán, and having been "penetrated by the feelings that moved the brotherhood", Welton decided to sell it for a symbolic monetary amount far below its real market price of just 19,300 pesetas.

Death

On 1 January 1951, Welton, then an industrialist living at Calle Marques de Paradas, died.

References

1. ^ "1957 - Sevilla Club de Futbol - Siviglia" [1957 - Sevilla CF - Seville]. scripofilia.it (in Italian). Retrieved 22 January 2025.
2. ^ "Sevilla F.C. y 1890" [Sevilla CF and 1890]. lafutbolteca.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2025.
3. ^ "1905: El nacimiento oficial del Sevilla FC" [1905: The official birth of Sevilla FC]. www.cuadernosdefutbol.com. CIHEFE. 17 January 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
4. ^ "El sueño de White (y III)" [White's dream (and III)]. voladizodegolsur.blogspot.com (in Spanish). 12 October 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
5. "Plantillas 1890–1904" [Squads 1890–1904]. sevillafc.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2025.
6. "La primera hooligan de la historia la tuvo el Sevilla FC en 1892". www.eldesmarque.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2025.
7. "La Capilla de los Marineros su retablo mayor" [The sailors' chapel and its main altarpiece]. www.abc.es (in Spanish). 21 May 1965. p. 25. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
8. "La Esperanza de Triana conmemora, hoy, el aniversario de la vuelta a la Capilla de los Marineros" [Today, La Esperanza de Triana commemorates the 50th anniversary of the return to the Sailors' Chapel]. www.abc.es (in Spanish). 20 April 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
9. "Name of Deceased" (PDF). www.thegazette.co.uk. The London Gazette. 3 July 1951. Retrieved 22 January 2025.

• 1951 deaths
• Spanish men's footballers
• Footballers from Seville
• Sevilla FC players
• Men's association football midfielders
• 19th-century Spanish sportsmen