Zarra (soccer player)

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Zarra
Zarra, Telmo 1950 Estadio 0376.jpg
Zarra, 1950
Personnel
Surname Pedro Telmo Zarraonandía Montoya
birthday January 20, 1921
place of birth Erandio ,  Spain
date of death February 23, 2006
Place of death Bilbao ,  Spain
size 180 cm
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1939-1940 SD Erandio Club 13 0(10)
1940-1955 Athletic Bilbao 278 (251)
1955-1956 SD Indautxu 27 0(17)
1956-1957 FC Barakaldo 12 00(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1945–1951 Spain 20 0(20)
1 Only league games are given.

Zarra , real name Pedro Telmo Zarraonandía Montoya (born January 20, 1921 in Erandio , † February 23, 2006 in Bilbao ), was a Spanish football player .

youth

Zarra was born in the Erandio train station (today: Estación de Asúa ) in the Asúa district, the son of the head of the station. He had nine siblings, including five brothers and four sisters. Zarra grew up in poor conditions. In his youth, like all other poor children from the Asua district, he played with balls made of rubber, paper or fabric. But since three of his older brothers played soccer, Zarra also had access to the real match ball. Zarra's first clubs were Asúa and Pitoberese. At the beginning of his career he played in the 1939/40 season together with his two brothers Tomás Antonio and Cecilio, who were both goalkeepers, at SD Erandio Club . Tomás, the oldest, had previously played four seasons at Arenas Club and is counted among the subsequently determined (unofficial) " Zamoras " before 1959 due to his successful game round in 1930/31 . Zarra's brother Domingo initially played for the Asúa district in Erandio, but later also moved to Arenas Club for two seasons before he died in the Spanish Civil War .

Career

Zarra made a name for himself as the forward at Athletic Bilbao . In the 1940s and 1950s he was the top scorer in the Spanish championship six times . That record was only broken 67 years later by Lionel Messi .

In the 1950/51 season he scored 38 goals. This record was evened out by Hugo Sánchez in the 1989/90 season and only surpassed by Cristiano Ronaldo (40 goals) in the 2010/11 season and then by Messi (50 goals) in the 2011/12 season . Zarra's 81 goals in the Copa del Rey , however, are unmatched to this day.

In Spain he was considered the typical goalscorer. However, he did not see himself as an outstanding player, but as the finisher of his team's game. Zarra scored 334 goals in 353 games, 251 of them in the Primera División, of which he was the record scorer until 2014. It would be almost 60 years before he was overtaken by Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. For the Spanish national team, he scored 20 times in 20 international matches. He could also play on the wing and was also effective as an assist provider. His most important goal was the goal at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil to 1-0 over England . This moved Spain into the final round. On February 18, 1951, he scored four goals in a 6-3 win for Spain over Switzerland .

Zarra died of a heart attack at the age of 85 . The following weekend there was a minute of mourning before all Primera División games and Zarras Athletic Bilbao played with a mourning ribbon .

titles and achievements

With the club

Individual awards and successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Telmo Zarraonaindia Montoya. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Sports: Trofeo Zamora - Palmarés. April 13, 2017, Retrieved July 23, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ uefa.com: Federaciones miembro - España - Noticias. November 22, 2014, accessed July 22, 2020 (Spanish).
  4. ^ Messi conquista su séptimo Trofeo Pichichi. July 19, 2020, accessed July 19, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Ranking Goals in a Season First Division. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zarra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zarraonandía Montoya, Pedro Telmo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Erandio
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2006
Place of death Bilbao