Félix Zubizarreta

Félix Zubizarreta Ezpeleta was a football player who played for Athletic Bilbao for 4 seasons, between 1913 and 1917. He scored 7 goals in Copa del Rey and won the competition 3 times in a row: 1914, 1915 and 1916. He scored also a Hat-trick in the 1916 Copa del Rey Final when Athletic won 4-0 against Madrid FC. [1][2]

His family emigrated to Venezuela after the Spanish Civil War. His grandson Iker Zubizarreta played in the football tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Félix Zubizarreta at Athletic Bilbao
  2. ↑ http://www.athletic-club.eus/en/match-statistics/1_2380/1915-16_athletic-club_real-madrid-cf.html
  3. ↑ "Iker Zubizarreta: el nieto de león que pudo ser cachorro" [Iker Zubizarreta: grandson of a lion who could have been a puppy] (in Spanish). Gara. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
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