- Manuel Suárez de Begoña
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Suárez 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 * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Suárez and the second or maternal family name is de Begoña.Manuel Suárez de Begoña also known as Manolo Suárez or simply Suárez (born unknown in Getxo, Spain – August 23, 1936 in Alicante, Spain)[1] is a former Spanish football forward and manager.
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Football career
Suárez began to play football with 13. He went on to study at a university in England, where he remained for four years and where he practiced football (college was proclaimed champion) and athletics.
As a player started in Arenas de Getxo and Athletic Bilbao. The Athletic played nine seasons, many of them as an amateur. In the 1926/27 season he played for Sunderland, being probably one of the first Spanish in playing abroad. In 1929 he debuted in the Primera División with Arenas.
His last stage as a player was in the Hércules CF which was from 1932 to 1936. Alicante team arrived in the Tercera División (Third Division) and left him with a 6th place in the Primera. In January 1934 took over as coach of the team, so he served as player-manager until the end of league and did so in the following season. In 1935/36 season he retired as a player and served only by coach.
It is so far the only coach of Hércules won two promotions with the club. In August 1936 was assassinated on the outskirts of Alicante in the Spanish Civil War.[1] In Alicante there Manuel Suárez Sportsman Street in his honor.[2]
International career
He was called once by the Spanish team was in a friendly match against Portugal, but saw the whole game from the bench. It happened on January 10, 1928 in Estádio do Lumiar in Lisbon, Portugal.[3]
Honours
As a player
- Copa del Rey runner-up: 1917
As a manager
- Tercera División promotion: 1933–34
- Segunda División champions: 1934–35
References
- ^ a b c 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.
External links
- Manuel Suárez career stats at athletic-club.net
- Manuel Suárez career stats in the First Division at bdfutbol.com
Hércules CF – Finning (1931–32) · Harris (1932) · Hertzka (1932–34) · Suárez (1934–36) · Surroca (1939) · Gamborena (1939) · Quirante (1940) · Olivares (1940–41) · T. Mauri (1941–42) · Urquiri (1942–43) · Maciá (1943–44) · Pagaza (1944–45) · Urquiri (1945–47) · Gaspar Rubio (1947–50) · A. Bonet (1950–51) · Mundo (1951–52) · La Riva, Llopis and Pina (1952–53) · Gaspar Rubio (1953) · Amadeo (1953–54) · Caicedo (1954–55) · Sergio Rodríguez (1955c) · Iraragorri (1955–56) · Amadeo (1956–57) · Sergio Rodríguez (1957) · Gallart (1957–58) · Sergio Rodríguez (1958c) · Ramonzuelo (1958–59c) · Sierra (1959) · Álvaro (1959–60) · Satur Grech (1960–61) · Lozano (1961) · Iturraspe (1961–62) · Ortega (1962–63c) · Bermúdez (1963–65) · Ortega (1965c) · Belló (1965–66) · Dauder (1966–67) · Ortega (1967c) · Toba (1967) · Sergio Rodríguez (1967–68) · Ramallets (1968) · Álvaro (1968) · Ortega (1968–69) · Manolet (1969c) · Manero (1965c) · César Rodríguez (1969–70) · Berenguer (1970c) · Miguel (1970–71) · César Rodríguez (1971c) · Guti (1971c) · Berenguer (1971c) · Kocsis (1971) · Eizaguirre (1971–72) · Loves (1972c) · Valera (1972) · Kálmár (1972–73) · Arsenio (1973–77) · Mesones (1977) · Joanet (1977–79) · Koldo Aguirre (1979–82) · Paquito (1982) · Humberto (1982c) · Pachín (1982–83) · Humberto (1983c) · Carlos Jurado (1983–85) · Humberto (1985c) · Antoni Torres (1985) · Villanova (1985–86) · Ormaetxea (1986) · García Traid (1986) · Rivera (1986–87) · Joanet (1987–88) · José Martínez (1988) · Humberto (1988–89c) · Domingo (1989) · Moncho (1989–90) · Carcelén (1990) · José Víctor (1990) · Campillo (1990–92) · Humberto (1992) · Quique Hernández (1992–94) · Mesones (1994–95) · Humberto (1995c) · Manolo Jiménez (1995–96) · Brzić (1996) · Quique Hernández (1996–97) · Humberto (1997c) · David Vidal (1997–98) · Sergio Egea (1998) · Humberto (1998c) · Periko Alonso (1998–99) · Manolo Jiménez (1999–00) · Rastrojo and Russo (2000c) · Corominas (2000) · Carbonell (2001) · Álvaro Pérez (2001–02) · Quique Medina (2002c) · Miñambres (2002–03) · Višnjić (2003) · Granero (2003–04) · Subirats (2004c) · Mandiá (2004–06) · Bordalás (2006) · Uribe (2006–07) · Paquito Escudero (2007) · Goikoetxea (2007–08) · Mandiá (2008–09) · Esteban (2009–11) · Đukić (2011) · Mandiá (2011–) (c) = caretaker manager Categories:- 1936 deaths
- People from Getxo
- Association football forwards
- Spanish footballers
- Basque footballers
- Spanish expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the United Kingdom
- La Liga footballers
- The Football League players
- Athletic Bilbao footballers
- Sunderland A.F.C. players
- Atlético Madrid footballers
- Real Betis footballers
- Hércules CF footballers
- Spanish football managers
- Hércules CF managers
- People killed in the Spanish Civil War
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