Manuel Suárez de Begoña
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Manuel Suárez de Begoña | ||
| Date of birth | Unknown | ||
| Place of birth | Getxo, Spain | ||
| Date of death | August 23, 1936[1] | ||
| Place of death | Alicante, Spain | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1916-1917 | Arenas Getxo | ||
| 1921-1922 | Athletic Club | ||
| 1924-1927 | Athletic Club | ||
| 1926-1927 | Sunderland | ||
| 1927-1928 | Arenas Getxo | ||
| 1927-1928 | Atlético Madrid | ||
| 1927-1928 | Athletic Club | ||
| 1928-1929 | Arenas Getxo | ||
| 1929-1930 | Betis | ||
| 1930-1932 | Arenas Getxo | ||
| 1932-1934 | Hércules | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1934–1936 | Hércules | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Manuel Suárez de Begoña also known as Manolo Suárez or simply Suárez (b. Getxo – d. August 23, 1936 in Alicante)[1] was a Spanish football forward and manager.
Football career
Suárez began to play football aged 13. He studied at an English university for four years, where he practiced football and athletics.
His career started with Athletic Bilbao. He played nine seasons for them, many of them as an amateur. During the 1926/27 season he played for Sunderland, being one of the first Spanish athletes playing abroad. In 1929 he made his debut in the Primera División with Arenas de Getxo.
His last team was Hércules CF, from 1932 to 1936. In January 1934 he took over as coach of the team serving as player-manager until the end of the Liga throughout the following season. During the 1935/36 season he retired as a player and served only as coach.
He is the only coach Hércules coach to have won two promotions. In August 1936 he was assassinated on the outskirts of Alicante at the onset of the Spanish Civil War.[1] In Alicante there's a street named after him.[2]
He was summoned to play for the Spanish team in a friendly match against Portugal on January 10, 1928 in Estádio do Lumiar, but saw the game from the bench.[3]
Honours
As a player
- Arenas Club
- Copa del Rey runner-up: 1917
As a manager
- Hércules
- Tercera División promotion: 1933–34
- Segunda División champions: 1934–35
References
- 1 2 3 Ya tiene el Hércules entrenador, elmundodeportivo.es (Spanish), August 16, 1940
- ↑ Manuel Suárez Street in Google Maps
- ↑ Martialay, Félix: Todo sobre la selección española, page 42. Librerías Deportivas Esteban Sanz Martier, 2006.