Sabino Barinaga Alberdi (15 August 1922 – 19 March 1988) was a Spanish football forward and

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. He appeared in 205

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matches and scored 92 goals over 13 seasons, almost exclusively for Real Madrid. He later embarked on a managerial career, which lasted nearly 25 years.

Playing career

Born in

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, Barinaga moved to England in his teens at the start of the

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, accompanied by two of his three siblings. Some of the other refugees who made the same journey in 1937 also became footballers, including Emilio Aldecoa, José Gallego and

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; whilst playing for his local high school he was discovered by

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and went on to spend one season with its

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, scoring 62 goals.Sabino Barinaga, autor del primer gol en el Bernabéu (Sabino Barinaga, scorer of first goal at the Bernabéu)
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giants Athletic Bilbao, moving to Real Madrid instead. An

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on the right flank, he made his

debut on 28 April 1940 in a 1–3 away loss against Athletic,El momento histórico (The historical moment)
Algo Más que Fútbol, 6 February 2007 his only appearance of the season. From 1943 to 1945, after nearly two years on loan in Segunda División with

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, Barinaga scored 38 league goals in 48 games, but the ''Merengues'' won no silverware in the period. He netted the first ever goal at the

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, in a 3–1 win over Portugal's C.F. Os Belenenses on 14 December 1947, and won three major trophies during his nine-year spell at the club, notably two

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, with the player scoring in the 1946 final against

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(3–1);Spain – Cup 1946
at

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on 13 June 1943, he contributed with four in only 13 minutes as Real trounced

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11–1 at home in the domestic cup semi-finals, following a 0–3 loss at ''

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''. Barinaga left Real Madrid in 1950 as a

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– having appeared in his final season mostly as a

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– then played a further three top level seasons with Real Sociedad in his native region. In the summer of 1954, at his own request, he was released and joined

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where he retired as a player.

Coaching career

Barinaga started coaching precisely with his last club. For the 1957–58 campaign he moved to the top division with

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, remaining in that tier for most of the following decade. In

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he also led CD Málaga to promotion from division two, only to be relegated back, a fate which also befell him with in Betis in

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and RCD Mallorca in

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. Abroad, Barinaga worked for a few months with Club América in Mexico, later managing the national teams of

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and

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. His last job was with Real Oviedo – which he had already coached in the top flight a few years before – not being able to prevent relegation from the second division in 1978.

Death

Barinaga died on 19 March 1988 in

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at the age of 65, from a

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disease. He was interred at the cemetery of Almudena in the city.

Honours

Player

Real Madrid *

: 1946, 1947 *

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: 1947

References

External links

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Real Madrid biographyCiberChe coach profile
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