Manuel Pérez de Guzmán Urzaiz (9 August 1888 – 22 January 1957) was a Spanish

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who played as a

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for

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between 1905 and 1907, and again between 1910 and 1914. He later served as the president of

from 1935 to 1939, thus becoming only the second former Huelva player to become the club's president.

Early and personal life

Manuel Pérez de Guzmán was born in the

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n municipality of

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on 9 August 1888, as the first son of Manuel Pérez de Guzmán, a landowner, and Maria Teresa de Urzáiz, a native of

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. On 16 July 1913, Pérez de Guzmán married in the Church of San Miguel in

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, to María Dolores Moreno de Arteaga, and the couple had eleven children, Gregorio (1914–1978), Manuel (1915–1994), Francisco (1916–1995), Antonio, Cecilia (1919–1995), María Teresa, María Dolores (1922–1976), Luis Alfonso, Julia (1924–1974), José, María Concepción.

Sporting career

Like all his brothers, Pérez de Guzmán spent his youth in the sporting environment, instilled by his father, a sports lover; for instance, all of the six Pérez de Guzmán brothers played football at their hometown club, Recreativo de Huelva between 1903 and 1920. As the eldest, he was the first Pérez de Guzmán to play in the club's first team, doing so in 1903, aged 15. Together with

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, Antonio Tellechea, Ángel Padilla, and Tomás Estrada, he was a member of the Huelva squad that participated in the

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, which was contested by only three teams, the other two being

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and Madrid FC (currently known as

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), with the latter winning it. When his father became the vice president of Recreativo de Huelva in 1906, he had four of his sons playing for the club, including Manuel. Sometimes, his father is wrongly listed as the club's president from 1907 to 1918, but the only Pérez de Guzmán who presided Recreativo was his eldest son Manuel, from 1935 to 1939, thus becoming only the second former Huelva player to become the club's president, the first being José Ochoa de Mora in 1924–27. Pérez de Guzmán also played for Huelva from 1910 until his retirement in 1914, aged only 26. On 31 March 1910, Manuel and his younger brother

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started for Recreativo in the Seville City Council Cup, helping his side to a 2–0 win over Seville FC at the Plaza de España field. During the first half of the 1910s, he helped Recreativo win three unofficial Andalusian Championship, which Recreativo itself organized, and the ''

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'' in 1912.

Death

Pérez de Guzmán died in

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on 22 January 1957, at the age of 68.

Honours

* Andalusian Championship: **Champions (3): 1910, 1911, and 1912 *

**Champions (1): 1912

References

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