Patrick O'Connell is one of the most decorated Irish footballers that you've never heard of. The first Irish captain of Man United, the only Irishman to win La Liga, and he captained Ireland to the British Home Championship victory in 1913/14.
But he's most known for saving FC Barcelona from financial ruin during the Spanish Civil War.
O'Connell, who is the only Irishman to be in Barcelona's hall of fame, is to have a blue plaque honouring him on Albert St in West Belfast. The Patrick O'Connell memorial fund have announced that funds have been raised, and that the plaque will remember O'Connell's upbringing in Belfast - from when he started playing professionally with Belfast Celtic to the birth of his son whilst he lived on Albert St.
The plaque will come 70 years after O'Connell lead Barcelona on a tour of Americas which ultimately saved the club from extinction.
