Football, poetry and anarchism
- Born 6 May 1919. Alexandre Campos Ramírez was born, a poet, inventor and anarchist editor, whom they would call Alejandro Finisterre (in Galician, Alexandre Fisterra) for his native city.
He went to Madrid to study at the age of 15. There he met the poet León Felipe (1884-1968) and with him he founded the magazine Paso a la juventud. There he was captured by the Spanish Civil War. He was trapped among the rubble in the November 1936 bombings and was taken to the hospital in Montserrat, where he was seriously wounded. There, seeing the wounded children who could not play football and taking table tennis as a source of inspiration, he came up with the football team. The idea was realized by the Basque carpenter Francisco Javier Altuna from pine wood and steel bars, thus creating the first football.
On the advice of another anarchist activist, Finister patented this design in Barcelona in January 1937. He also patented another invention: he was in love with a pianist and for him he made a device to pass sheet music with his feet.
When the Francoists won the war, he crossed the Pyrenees on foot and fled to France. On the way he lost the patent of the football player. But he managed to raise a little money in Paris with the sheet music pin, which allowed him to travel to Ecuador in 1948. He lived four years in Quito and created, among others, the poetic journal Ecuador 0º, 0’, 0’. In 1952, he moved to Guatemala, one of the few countries in which the government of the Spanish Republic was still allowed. The Spanish Republican Embassy is dedicated to providing confidential documents to Mexico. And it also succeeded in manufacturing and selling futbolines.
But in 1954, protected by the United States, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas struck the coup d'état in Guatemala. Finisterre was arrested, and Francoist agents put him on an airplane to Spain, where he was arrested. In the bathroom of the plane “invented” a bomb wrapped in aluminum foil. Despite menacing that false artifact, he had persuaded the crew and the passengers to speak. The aircraft was diverted to Panama and the Galician landed there, who travelled by plane from Istanbul. He pioneered not only football, but also the hijacking of aircraft.
The following years were spent in Mexico. Among others, he created Editorial Finisterre printer and also published a facsimile of the journal Galeusca.
He returned to Spain after Franco's death and was surprised that the football was widespread, but he saw neither a confession nor a quarter. Confession would come to him later. The day after 9 February 2007, newspapers reported that "the football inventor" had died.
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