Isidro Rodríguez Gómez, sometimes known as just Isidro, was a Spanish

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who played as a

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. Isidro was one of the first

Celta de Vigo Real Club Celta de Vigo (; ), commonly known as Celta Vigo, is a Spanish professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football. Nicknamed ''Os Celestes'' (The Sky Blues), the club was fou ...

goalkeepers and he was part of the first-ever team fielded by Celta de Vigo in 1923.

Club career

Born in

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a city in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. It is the capital of both the ''Pontevedra (comarca), Comarca'' and Province of Pontevedra, and the capital of the Rías Baixas. It is als ...

, Galicia, he began playing football at his hometown club

Real Vigo Sporting Real Vigo Sporting Club, was a Spanish football club based in Vigo, Galicia, founded in 1905. Background Vigo was one of the cities through which football entered the Iberian Peninsula, thanks to British sailors and workers. The first demonst ...

in 1919, helping Sporting to win two

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s in 1919-20 and 1922-23. He remained there until Sporting was merged with Fortuna de Vigo in 1923, to form

. The Celta presentation match was held on 14 September 1923 between an A and a B team formed with the players from the club, taking advantage of the large team available that this new club had. Isidro was part of the first-ever team fielded by Celta de Vigo by being the goalkeeper of the A-team. Isidro was the starting goalkeeper at Celta's first official game on 23 September 1923 against

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, in which he was part of an 8-2 victory. In Celta's first year, the team became the Galician champion after winning the 1923-24 championship with Isidro and Lilo as goalkeepers. On 24 March 1924, Isidro was Celta's goalkeeper in the team's debut at the

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against

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. At the beginning of the following season (1924/25) he requested to leave the club and moved his address to

A Coruña A Coruña (; ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo. The city is the provincial capital of the province ...

, although he could not sign for another team during that season as Celta did not authorize him. At the beginning of the following season (1925/26) he tried to sign for

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, but Celta opposed that and

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denied the signing. However,

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agreed in December 1925 that Isidro's record was transferred to Deportivo.

International career

Being a player of

, he was summoned to play for the Galicia national team, and he was one of the eleven footballers that played in the team's first-ever game on 19 November 1922, a 4-1 win over a Castile/Madrid XI in the quarter-finals of the

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, an inter-regional

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organized by the

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. Isidro helped the team reach the

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, which they lost 1-3 to Asturias national team, courtesy of a second-half brace from

José Luis Zabala José Luis Zabala (14 December 1898 – 22 April 1946) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward. He played in four matches for the Spain national football team in 1923 and 1924, scoring four goals, including a hat-trick against Portu ...

Honours

Club

;

: *Winners (2) 1919-20 and 1922–23 ;

: *Winners (1) 1923-24 ;

Deportivo de La Coruña Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña (), commonly known as Deportivo La Coruña () or simply Depor, is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia, that competes in the Segunda División, the ...

: *Winners (2) 1926-27 and 1927–28

International

;Asturias

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: *Runner-up (1): 1922-23

References

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