Ignacio Aguirrezabala

Chirri II
Personnel
Surname	Ignacio María Aguirrezabala Ibarbia
birthday	May 10, 1909
place of birth	Bilbao ,  Spain
date of death	September 11, 1979
Place of death	Bilbao ,  Spain
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1928-1935	Athletic Bilbao	90 (30)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1928-1932	Spain	4 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ignacio María Aguirrezabala Ibarbia (born May 10, 1909 in Bilbao , † September 11, 1979 ibid), better known as Chirri II , was a Spanish football player .

Career as a football player

society

Ignacio Aguirrezabala was the younger brother of Marcelino Aguirrezabala, who played under his nickname "Chirri" for Athletic Bilbao in the mid-1920s. When Ignacio moved up into the professional squad at the age of 18, he was henceforth known as "Chirri II". On March 4, 1928, he completed his first competitive game in the Copa del Rey . On March 24, 1929, he made his debut in a 3-6 defeat by Real Unión in the newly formed Primera División and scored two goals. In the following years, Chirri II was an integral part of the Basque tribe. With Guillermo Gorostiza , Bata , José Iraragorri and Lafuente , he formed a legendary attack line. Bilbao won the double in the 1929/30 and 1930/31 seasons , the Spanish Cup in 1932 and 1933 , the championship again in the 1933/34 season and the Basque Country regional championship seven times between 1928 and 1935 . In 1935, after 163 competitive games and 57 goals, Aguirrezabala decided to end his football career at the age of just 26. He had other interests that exceeded his enthusiasm for football. Since you couldn't make big money in professional football at that time , he had better career prospects with the engineering that he had previously studied.

Despite his resignation, Aguirrezabala was persuaded after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War to play for the Basque football team from 1937 , with which he then played in Mexico and South America . In 1938 he renounced football for good and settled in Argentina . There he worked in the engineering office of a construction company and started a family. In 1946 he returned to Bilbao and set up his own construction company. He died in his hometown on September 11, 1979 at the age of 70.

National team

Chirri II made his debut on April 22, 1928, just one and a half months after his first competitive game for Athletic Bilbao, in the Spanish national team . By 1932 he played a total of four international matches. After he had clashed with a Madrid FC player in the course of the 1933 Cup final , during which he was not used, and was sent off, he was suspended from the national team for two years. Even after the suspension, he was no longer used in the Selección .

successes

• Spanish champion : 1930 , 1931 , 1934
• Spanish Cup Winner : 1930 , 1931 , 1932 , 1933
• Campeonato de Vizcaya: 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935

Web links

• Chirri II in the database of weltfussball.de
• Player profile at BDFutbol

Individual evidence

1. ↑ athletic-club.net: Player Statistics: Chirri II  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ “Chirri II”, el cerebro de las medias caídas (PDF; 111 kB), May 2004