Ricardo Zamora

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Ricardo Zamora
Ricardo Zamora Espanyol.jpg
Personnel
Surname Ricardo Zamora Martínez
birthday January 21, 1901
place of birth Barcelona ,  Spain
date of death September 8, 1978
Place of death Barcelona ,  Spain
size 181 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1914-1916 Universitary
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1916-1919 Espanyol Barcelona
1919-1922 FC Barcelona
1922-1930 Espanyol Barcelona 26 (0)
1930-1936 real Madrid 82 (0)
1936-1938 OGC Nice
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1920-1936 Spain 46 (0)
1920-1930 Catalonia
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1937-1938 OGC Nice
1939-1946 Atlético Aviación
1946-1948 Celta Vigo
1949-1951 CD Málaga
1952 Spain
1954-1955 Celta Vigo
1955-1957 Espanyol Barcelona
1957-1960 Celta Vigo
1960-1961 Espanyol Barcelona
1 Only league games are given.

Ricardo Zamora Martínez (born January 21, 1901 in Barcelona , † September 8, 1978 ibid) was a Spanish football player . In the 1920s and 1930s, he was considered one of the world's best goalkeepers who revolutionized the goalkeeping game of the time.

player

society

Zamora played pelota until he was 14 years old when he happened to watch a soccer game and thought that in soccer, in contrast to pelota, it should be much easier to catch the ball. He made his debut at Espanyol Barcelona at the age of 18 and caused a stir even then. In 1920 and 1922 he won the Copa del Rey with FC Barcelona and after returning to Espanyol he won the cup for the third time in 1929 with a final victory over Real Madrid . Then bought Royal map for a record transfer fee of 150,000 pesetas Divine as Zamora was named in awe. With the Madrilenians, Zamora won the Spanish championship ( introduced in 1928) twice (1932, 1933) and two more trophies (1934, 1936). When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936 , Zamora, who openly sided with the Spanish nationalists led by General Franco , was imprisoned by the Republicans but released after a while. He fled to France, where he let his career end with OGC Nice .

National team

At the Olympic Games in 1920 he became a folk hero when he ensured a 1-0 victory against the highly superior Danes with his brilliant parades and thus played a large part in achieving the silver rank. In 1929 the Spanish national team achieved the almost impossible with Zamora in goal: They beat the English national soccer team as the first team from outside the British Isles 4: 3. Zamora showed a rather poor performance, but it was later revealed that he had played the whole game with a broken sternum. In 1934 Zamora took part in the World Cup with the Spanish national team. With his parades and reflexes he initially contributed to the 3-1 victory over Brazil, in the quarter-finals against Italy he saved the Spaniards in a replay, in which he was unable to participate due to injury. This game, which was marked by some questionable referee decisions, was lost 1-0. A second World Cup participation was denied to him due to the Spanish civil war. His last international match was when Spain beat Germany 1: 2 on February 23, 1936 in Barcelona. In total, Zamora played 46 international matches, in which he only conceded 42 goals.

Trainer

After the end of his playing career, he became a coach. From 1939 he worked at Atlético Madrid , which was then temporarily called Atlético Aviación and with whom he won the first Spanish championship held after the civil war in 1940. In 1941 he successfully defended his title. Zamora's other coaching stations were Celta de Vigo , Espanyol Barcelona and RCD Mallorca . In 1952 he was the Spanish national coach for two games. Under his leadership, Spain beat Ireland 6-0 on June 1 and played 0-0 against Turkey a week later in Istanbul .

He also trained the La Salle Fútbol Club in Venezuela .

successes

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Others

Since the 1958/59 season, the goalkeeper with the fewest goals conceded in the Spanish soccer league has been awarded the Trofeo Zamora (Zamora Cup).

Zamora was a chain smoker, we're talking about 60 cigarettes a day. He was arrested in 1920 on his return journey from the 1920 Olympics for smuggling Havana cigars.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew McFarland (2006) Ricardo Zamora: The First Spanish Football Idol , Soccer & Society, 7: 1, 1-13
  2. ↑ a b watson.ch : May 31, 1934: Goalie Zamora was a chain smoker, sat in jail and almost ended up in a wheelchair at the World Cup , accessed on May 31, 2016
  3. ↑ Técnicos y Jugadores Mundialistas que pasaron por el fútbol nacional ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on balonazos.com from June 17, 2014, accessed February 27, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.balonazos.com
  4. ↑ ARD Sportschau: Zamora's most memorable performance , accessed on May 31, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Zamora, Ricardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zamora Martínez, Ricardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1978
Place of death Barcelona , Spain