José María Maguregui Ibarguchi (16 March 1934 – 30 December 2013) was a Spanish football

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and coach.

Playing career

Born in

Ugao-Miraballes Ugao-Miraballes (official and Basque language name; informally in Spanish: Miravalles) is a town and municipality in the province of Biscay and autonomous community of the Basque Country Basque Country may refer to: * Basque Country (autonomou ...

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, Maguregui made his professional debuts in 1952 at the age of 18, with Basque Country giants

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. After a poor first season in

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– 12 games, no goals – he became a very important first-team unit, helping them to the 1956 national championship and three

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trophies in four years.Fallece Maguregui, exjugador y exentrenador del Athletic (Maguregui, former Athletic player and manager, dies)
Marca, 30 December 2013 (in Spanish) In 1963, after amassing official totals of and 235 matches and 42 goals, 29-year-old Maguregui left Athletic, retiring after spells with

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(two years),

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and

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. He earned seven

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for

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in slightly less than two years, scoring in his debut on 19 June 1955, a 3–0 friendly win in Switzerland.Suiza, 0 – España, 3 (Switzerland, 0 – Spain, 3)

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, 20 June 1955 (in Spanish)

International goals

Coaching career

After managing his hometown club in amateur football, Maguregui moved to Sestao Sport also in his native region. In 1972 he was appointed at

Racing de Santander Real Racing Club de Santander, S.A.D. (), also known as Racing de Santander () or simply Racing, is a football club based in Santander, Cantabria, Spain, that currently competes in Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish league syst ...

, achieving two top flight promotions with the

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ns and remaining five years with the team.Maguregui y Aitor Aguirre, ex racinguistas con el corazón dividido (Maguregui and Aitor Aguirre, former ''racinguistas'' with torn heart)

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, 24 January 2008 (in Spanish) Maguregui then managed to lead two more teams to division one promotions,

RC Celta de Vigo Real Club Celta de Vigo (; ), commonly known as Celta de Vigo or simply Celta, 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) ...

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – ...

José María Maguregui
Yo Entrené al Celta, 2 December 2010 (in Spanish) and lowly

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, overachieving with the latter in the following season (ninth-place finish), which prompted his signing with a club he had represented as a player, Español. After three average seasons in

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, ranking between positions 9–13, Maguregui returned to Racing, helping it to top flight promotion in his first year and going on to remain with the club a total of nine years, being the manager with more games at its service. He worked with Celta in the 1987–88 season, also in the first division, being dismissed in round 30 due to the surmounting pressure after his agreement with

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for the following campaign. Maguregui was fired by Atlético in early October 1988 in spite of two consecutive home wins, 3–0 against

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for the league and 2–1 over

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in the

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(

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elimination), being one of four coaches used by the club during the season (elusive

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was the chairman) which saw the team finish in fourth place. He concluded the campaign with fellow league club

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, which suffered relegation. Maguregui's last job at the professional level was with Celta, with the coach arriving in

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late into 1989–90 – which ended in top flight relegation – and leaving 18 games into the following season.

Death

Maguregui died on 30 December 2013 at the age of 79 in Bilbao, after a long battle with illness. In his last public appearance, in June, he attended the inauguration of the new San Mamés.

Honours

Player

Athletic Bilbao *

: 1955–56 * Copa del Generalísimo:

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yiji ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...

, 1958 Spain U18 * UEFA European Under-18 Championship:

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh ...

Manager

Almería * Segunda División: 1978–793–0: El Almería, campeón con todos los honores (3–0: Almería, champions with full honours)
Mundo Deportivo, 11 June 1979 (in Spanish)

References

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