Ángel Zubieta

Ángel Zubieta
Ángel Zubieta
Personnel
Surname	Ángel Zubieta Redondo
birthday	July 17, 1918
place of birth	Galdakao ,  Spain
date of death	October 28, 1985
Place of death	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1935-1939	Athletic Bilbao	22 0(2)
1939-1952	CA San Lorenzo	352 (29)
1952-1956	Deportivo La Coruña	56 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1936	Spain	2 0(0)
1936-1938	Basque Country
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1962-1963	Athletic Bilbao
1963	Real Valladolid
1964	Belenenses Lisbon
1968-1969	Belenenses Lisbon
1969-1970	Real Jaén
1970-1974	UNAM Pumas
1 Only league games are given.

Ángel Zubieta Redondo (born July 17, 1918 in Galdakao , † October 28, 1985 in Buenos Aires ) was a Spanish football player and later coach.

His older brother Santi Zubieta was also active in Spanish professional football from the late 1920s to the mid-1930s.

Player career

Ángel Zubieta, born in Galdakao in the Basque Country in 1918 , began his football career in 1935 at the age of 17 at Athletic Bilbao , one of the best clubs in Spain at the time . In his first season with Bilbao , which was known for using only players from the Basque Country, he won the Spanish football championship. In the Primera División , a first place was taken two points ahead of Real Madrid . Zubieta was a regular in the championship season and made 22 games for Bilbao (two goals). He did not come to any other missions for his club because the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936 and gaming was interrupted for the duration of the conflict. Between 1936 and 1938 he played for the Basque national football team , having previously played two international matches for all of Spain . With the national team of the Basque Country he went on a trip to South America in 1939, where some games were made against teams from South America . It caught Ángel Zubieta the Argentine club CA San Lorenzo de Almagro from the capital Buenos Aires and he was signed by the club. From 1939 he played 13 seasons for the club from the Almagro district and played 352 times in the Primera División , the highest football league in Argentina . He scored 29 goals. In 1946 the midfielder with CA San Lorenzo de Almagro was Argentinian football champion, a first place in the Primera División was achieved with four points ahead of the Boca Juniors . In the same year you could also make the Copa Río de La Plata victorious. He stayed with San Lorenzo de Almagro until 1952 and is still the player with the third most appearances for the club, behind Sergio Villar and Roberto Telch . In 1952 he went back to his native Spain and played for Deportivo La Coruña until 1956 and ended his active career in the jersey with the club from Galicia at the age of 38 in 1956.

Coaching career

After the end of his time as an active footballer, Ángel Zubieta became a coach. His first coaching position was his hometown club Athletic Bilbao in 1962, which he led to a tenth place in the league, while the Real Madrid White Ballet won the championship. He then coached Real Valladolid , which had just finished fourth in the Primera División, but was quickly dismissed there. In 1964 he coached Belenenses Lisbon , but he did not hold this post for long either. In 1968 he was again obliged by Belenenses as a coach and led the club to eighth place in the table in the 1968/69 season. In 1969 he went to the lower class Spanish club Real Jaén and from 1970 to 1974 he was responsible for UNAM Pumas in Mexico . The club from Mexico City was his last coaching station.

Ángel Zubieta died on October 28, 1985 in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires at the age of 67 of the nerve disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis .

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