Onofre Picó Cortés, born in Palma on February 16, 1901 and deceased on December 12, 1983, played in the Real Sociedad Alfonso XIII between May 1917 and July 1925, always in amateur plan. True Sportman, also practiced cycling successfully in the Real Sociedad Alfonsina. His position in the field was the right defense, a position from which he formed several years a great line with the failed Paco Vert, who died in the war in Africa. His retirement from active football at the end of the season 1924/1925 caused great surprise in the sports gossip of the time, since it only had twenty-four years and was expected to continue leading the defense alfonsina quite a while longer.
One of the best anecdotes of his passage through the Alfonso XIII was the day of the semifinal of the Second Catalan League on October 7th, 1917. By decreeing the collegiate end of the match with a victory for 2-3, the players of the Jupiter, not satisfied, wanted to continue playing, so they were put into formation and started towards the goal Alfonsina. He, who did not play that game and was among the audience as a spectator, jumped to the playing field by putting himself in his defense post. A crowd of people from Sabadell (where the semifinal was played) was placed in the goal of goalkeepers. The first striker who came to his height, Picó gave him such a smack that knocked him down and, of course, a great tumult was made from which he did not go very well. Only the intervention of the public force prevented the lynching out of period.
After his retirement as a player, Picó was a football referee. As a curious note, in December 1931 the College of arbitrators disabled it for three months. Onofre Picó was also a football coach on the Consell CD. In fact, our protagonist was a multidisciplinary person sporting and, among his different facets, was secretary of the Balearic Cycling Federation for seventeen years, founder of the clubs Vespa and Lambretta, referee swimming and Water polo, as well as a member of the Provincial commission of Physical Education and sports. At the beginning of the fifties, in one of the many stages of anxiety of the Vermilion Club, he was part of a board of directors of Salvation of Majorca, together with other illustrious Alfonsos.
