Joaquín Urquiaga

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Joaquín Urquiaga
Personnel
Surname Joaquín Urquiaga Legarburu
birthday March 29, 1910
place of birth Bilbao , Bizkaia ,  Spain
date of death July 1965
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1932-1936 Betis Seville
1937 - ???? CF Asturias
1945-1947 CD Veracruz
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1947-1949 CD Veracruz
1952-1956 CD Tampico
1958-1959 CF Madero
1 Only league games are given.

Joaquín Urquiaga Legarburu (born March 29, 1910 in Bilbao , Bizkaia , † July 1965 ), also known by the nicknames Chavo and Gordo , was a Spanish soccer goalkeeper and coach who was in Mexico for most of his life .

Life

Spain

Urquiaga began his professional career at Betis Sevilla and made his debut in the Spanish Primera División on December 25, 1932 in a game against Barça . From then on he was a regular goalkeeper at Betis and won the only championship title in the club's history with the Andalusians in the 1934/35 season . The extent to which the defensive in particular (and with it the goalkeeper Urquiaga) contributed to this success can be seen from a few figures. Half of the twelve teams that played in the league that season scored more goals than the champions, who only managed 43 goals. Runner-up Real Madrid scored 61 goals, which were hardly inferior to the third and fourth placed ( Real Oviedo and Athletic Bilbao ) with 60 goals each. It was the defense that secured Betis the title: Los Beticos received just 19 goals in 22 games , while the second-best defense from runners-up Real Madrid had to accept 34 goals. For his outstanding performance, Urquiaga was selected as the best goalkeeper in Spain in the 1934/35 season and was awarded the Trofeo Zamora .

Mexico

After the Spanish football season was suspended due to the civil war that broke out in Spain in 1936 , Urquiaga was part of a FC Barcelona delegation in 1937 that traveled to Mexico and played several friendly matches. The Asturias Club became aware of his talent and signed him in the same year. In the following season 1938/39 Urquiaga won the championship with the Asturianos . His stations in the following years are unknown.

In 1945 he moved to the Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz , with whom he immediately won the championship title in the 1945/46 season. He ended his active career a year later and continued to work as head coach at Veracruz for the next two years. In his first season as a coach, he won the Mexican Cup competition with Veracruz (1948), but in 1949 he was replaced and replaced by "Ranchero" Torres.

After his release from Veracruz, he initially moved to his homeland, but a few years later he was signed by CD Tampico and returned to Mexico. With Tampico he won the championship title and the Supercup in the 1952/53 season ; in both cases it was the first and only triumph in the club's history! At the end of the 1955/56 season he was replaced by José Moncebáez. In the next few years he had various engagements in the second division of Mexico , including 1958/59 with CF Madero .

successes

As a player

As a trainer

swell

References and comments

  1. ↑ Some sources, which have obviously copied from each other, put the date of his death on July 28, 1965, while the Spanish Wikipedia uses a newspaper article on the same day as the source of his death. However, this would mean that he must have died shortly before that day. His place of death is also controversial. While some sources name Mexico City, according to other sources he died in Bilbao.
  2. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo II, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, p. 347
  3. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo III, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, p. 487
  4. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo III, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, p. 488
  5. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo III, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, p. 505
  6. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo III, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, pp. 506f
  7. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo III, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, p. 664
personal data
SURNAME Urquiaga, Joaquín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urquiaga Legarburu, Joaquín (full name); Chavo (nickname); Gordo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilbao , Bizkaia , Spain
DATE OF DEATH July 1965