Doomed Youth. Antonio Cánovas, a young sportsman in time of war in 1930s Spain
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Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/60386DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.577814
ISSN: 2624-9367
Date
2021-02-12Bibliographic citation
VIUDA SERRANO, Alejandro de la; IBARRONDO MERINO, Iker. "Doomed Youth. Antonio Cánovas, a young sportsman in time of war in 1930s Spain". (ISSN: 2624-9367). Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. 2021, vol 3, p. e577814 -
Keywords
Youth
1930s Spain
Spanish civil war (1936-1939)
Exile and diaspora
Sports in wartime
Working-class sportsmen
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Abstract
During the Spanish Civil War (SCW) 1936–1939, many young working-class sportsmen
volunteered. They were both physically and politically active and some of them
outstanding athletes. The search of these unknown men has just begun. Doomed Youth
is a tribute to them and the first step toward a bigger attempt to better comprehend the
role of sportsmen volunteers enlisted during the first months of the SCW, a fact that to
date has received little scholar attention. Archival research, especially war combatants’
family records as well as newspaper archives, oral memories of the protagonists left alive,
and historical contextualization were defined as the appropriate methods to conduct the
research. This paper is devoted to one of these young volunteers, Antonio Cánovas,
recently dead in 2018 at the age of 98, whose life story in the 1930s and 1940s may be
taken as the epitome of the young working-class sportsman of the cutting-edge regions
of Spain in the first half of the 20th century: youngsters aware of their political and social
rights whose dreams of social justice and active life were dashed by the war.
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