Guillermo Eizaguirre

Guillermo Eizaguirre Olmos (born May 17, 1909 in Seville , † October 25, 1986 in Madrid ) was a Spanish football player and coach . He coached the Spanish national team from 1948 to 1950 and 1955. His greatest success was fourth place at the 1950 World Cup .

Career

Eizaguirre was in goal for Sevilla FC from 1925 at the age of 16 . With the club he entered the Copa de Andalucía , the highest regional league before the introduction of the Primera División as a national championship. His team won this competition regularly, only in 1928 he lost with Sevilla FC in the final against local rivals Betis Sevilla . Shortly before he had played his way into the circle of the Spanish national team, but was in the shadow of Ricardo Zamora and only played for a B national team.

When the Primera División was introduced in 1928, the nine previous winners or finalists of the Copa del Rey were specified as participants. Seville FC also competed in a tournament with Eizaguirre for tenth place on the grid. With a loss to Racing Santander , however, he missed the qualification and the club entered the Segunda División from then on. There was no direct promotion at the beginning, so that Sevilla FC had to compete as the second division champions in a relegation against the bottom of the first division. Again the opponent was Racing Santander, who prevailed again. In the spring of 1934, the first division promotion finally took place. Then he was in the provisional squad for the 1934 World Cup , which he missed due to injury. In May 1935 he made his debut against Portugal in the senior national team. In this he played a total of three games until the following summer. In 1935 he also won the state cup. The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 ended his active career.

In 1948 Eizaguirre took over the support of the Spanish national team. With success over Portugal in qualifying, he led the selection team to the 1950 World Cup finals , where they reached the second final round. On the way there she beat the first-time World Cup participant England and became group winners, despite a draw with eventual world champions Uruguay - Spain was the only team against which the world champions did not win during the tournament - stayed after defeats against hosts Brazil and the reigning Olympic champion Sweden only finished fourth. Then the trio Paulino Alcántara , Luis Iceta and Félix Quesada took over the supervision. After failing to qualify for the 1954 World Cup finals and other unsuccessful games, he returned again as national coach in autumn 1955. After three games without a win, he handed his office shortly before qualifying for the World Cup tournament in 1958 to Manuel Meana .

Web links

• Guillermo Eizaguirre in the database of weltfussball.de
• Guillermo Eizaguierre on bdfutbol.com (Spanish)
• Report on elmanifiesto.com (Spanish)