Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes (15 February 1909 – 23 August 1966) was a Spanish
footballer
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who played as a
forward
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.
In a 14-year professional career, he played for
Athletic Bilbao
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and
Valencia
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, amassing
La Liga
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totals of 255 games and 178 goals and winning 11 major titles with the two teams combined.
Gorostiza appeared for
Spain
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at the
1934 World Cup
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.
Club career
Athletic Bilbao
Gorostiza was born in
Santurtzi
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,
Biscay
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. He played youth football for Chávarri de Sestao and Zugazarte, beginning his senior career with
Arenas Club de Getxo
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and
Racing de Ferrol
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(one season apiece) before signing for
Athletic Bilbao
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in 1929.
He made his
La Liga
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debut on 1 December 1929 against
Real Madrid
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, and scored a combined 37 league goals in his first two seasons (in 36 matches) as the club won back-to-back national championships, adding two
Copa del Rey
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trophies.
Gorostiza was a member of an Athletic attack (coached by Englishman
Fred Pentland
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) that also included
Bata,
José Iraragorri
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Career Club
Born in Basauri, Iraragorri initial ...
,
Chirri II
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Career
At club level, he played for Athletic Bilbao for eight ...
,
Lafuente and
Víctor Unamuno, and would be remembered as one of the best in the club's history;
he won two
Pichichi awards as league top goalscorer while with the club. He scored the last goal in the
1933 Spanish Cup final, a 2–1 victory over Real Madrid in
Barcelona
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.
[
During the ]Spanish Civil War
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, Gorostiza played with the ''Euskadi XI'', a team which was put together at the suggestion of José Antonio Aguirre, the president of the Basque Country and a former Athletic player. The side went on tour to the Soviet Union
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to raise funds for the Basque cause, as well as throughout Europe and Mexico
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, even entering the Mexican league during the 1938–39 campaign, although by then Gorostiza was no longer with the squad.
Valencia and later years
On returning to Spain, Gorostiza returned to Athletic as they attempted to rebuild their squad using younger players, featuring in the 1939 Copa del Generalísimo
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and the full 1939–40. He then joined Valencia CF
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as the young ''Che'' squad had managed to remain intact during the conflict and now, aided by the veteran (31), eventually won two leagues and one cup, with the player netting in double digits in four of his six seasons, with a best of 20 goals in 24 games in 1941–42.
After leaving the Mestalla Stadium
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, Gorostiza played for Barakaldo CF
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during the 1946–47 campaign, in Segunda División
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, and then retired at the age of 38. However, he twice came out of retirement, with CD Logroñés
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Due to financial problems, since 2009 the club has ...
and Juvencia Trubia, finally calling it quits in 1951. While with Juvencia, he was paid in bottle of coke from a nearby factory which he would then have to sell to make money.
International career
While at Athletic, Gorostiza made his debut for Spain
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, appearing against Czechoslovakia
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on 14 June 1930. He represented the nation at the 1934 FIFA World Cup
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, playing in the 3–1 win against Brazil
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and the 1–1 draw against Italy
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; he missed the replay against the latter, a 0–1 defeat.
Gorostiza earned the last of his 19 caps
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on 12 December 1941, in a friendly match
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with Switzerland
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in Valencia
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.
Death
Gorostiza began to struggle with alcoholism
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while still playing, sometimes turning up to games drunk or not having slept, and this eventually led to severe economic problems. He was found dead by a nun on 24 August 1966 at the ''Santa María en Santurce'' nursing home
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in Bilbao
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, aged 57.
Filmography
Gorostiza played Goro in ''¡¡Campeones!!'' (1943), and himself in ''Juguetes rotos'' (1966).
Career statistics
Honours
Athletic Bilbao
*La Liga
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: 1929–30, 1930–31, 1933–34, 1935–36
*Copa del Rey
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: 1930
Events
January
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, 1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
, 1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
, 1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
*Biscay Championship
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: 1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1938–39, 1939–40
Valencia
*La Liga
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: 1941–42, 1943–44
*Copa del Generalísimo
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: 1941
Events
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January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
Individual
*Pichichi Trophy
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: 1929–30, 1931–32
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1909 births
1966 deaths
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