Enriqueta Sèculi

Enriqueta Sèculi i Bastida (1897 – 1976) was a Catalan pedagogue, sports director, feminist, writer, and a women's football pioneer.

Sporting career
Together with Teresa and Josefina Torrens, Sèculi was one of the founders of the Women's Sports Club of Barcelona (Club Femení d'Esports) in October 1928, becoming the first secretary of the organization and is considered one of the key figures in the early years of the club. In the General Meeting of January 1930, he proposed changing the name of the entity by adding the "i" (Club Femení i d'Esports) to expand its cultural and social scope.

Professional life
Sèculi was a professor at the Academia Miralles de Sabadell, the Institute of Culture and Popular Library of Barcelona, and the Workers' Union Federation, At the beginning of the 1930s, she was the secretary of the Permanent Women's Commission of the Catalan Women's Protection Association. On 14 June 1931, she was one of the founders, along with Aurora Bertrana, among others, of the Lyceum Club (Barcelona), where she was also secretary. She was a member (and founding member) of the Women's Section of Palestra, of the Catalan Women's League for Peace and Freedom and the Left-wing United Women's Front of Catalonia. In 1934 she also joined the Catalan Women's Secretariat of the World Congress of Women.

After the start of the Spanish Civil War, Sèculi, due to her clear feminist, Catalanist, and left-wing position, had to flee and move to Paris, where she found out that a Colombian school was looking for a new director. and he presented himself there. In 1937 she was hired by the Colombian government and a few months later she held the post at the Normal School of Señoritas in Medellin, which would later change its name to Instituto Central Femenino. Sèculi tried to make important changes in both the sports and social vision of the school, but, due to social conservatism in Medellin and the persecution she suffered from the Colombian church for her progressive positions, the ministry forced to resign from office.

Death
As a posthumous tribute, in 2010 the Barcelona City Council dedicated gardens that bear his name.