Isidro Lángara
Lángara in the cover of El Gráfico magazine.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Isidro Lángara Galarraga | ||
| Date of birth | 25 May 1912 | ||
| Place of birth | Pasaia, Spain | ||
| Date of death | 21 August 1992 (aged 80) | ||
| Place of death | Andoain, Spain | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1930–1936 | Real Oviedo | 113 | (142) |
| 1938–1939 | Club Deportivo Euzkadi | ||
| 1939–1943 | San Lorenzo de Almagro | 121 | (110) |
| 1943–1946 | Real Club España | 68 | (105) |
| 1946–1948 | Real Oviedo | 29 | (23) |
| National team | |||
| 1932–1936 | Spain | 12 | (17) |
| 1938–1939 | Euzkadi (Basque Country) | 8 | (17) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1950–1951 | Unión Española | ||
| 1952–1954 | Puebla | ||
| 1955 | San Lorenzo | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Isidro Lángara Galarraga (25 May 1912 in Pasaia, Gipuzkoa — 21 August 1992 in Andoain) was a Spanish football striker. He played 12 times for Spain, scoring 17 goals.
Lángara began his football career playing for local teams, Bildur Guchi, Esperanza de San Sebastián, Siempre Adelante de Pasajes and Andoain in his native Basque country, eventually signing for then third division team Tolosa CF. When he turned 18 his goalscoring abilities were recognized by second division team Real Oviedo, a club with whom he would remain for 6 years until the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936.
At Oviedo he was the figurehead of the celebrated Delantera Eléctrica, a forward line of lightning quick youthful talent that steam-rolled teams with high tempo highly skilled play; but for the onset of war the team would have surely improved upon the two-third places in the seasons that preceded the war.
He was the winner of the Pichichi Trophy, awarded to the top scorer in the Spanish League, in the three seasons before the war, with 27 goals in 1933–34, 26 goals in 1934–35 and 28 goals in 1935–36. Even before that he was top scorer in the Spanish second division the year Real Oviedo was promoted.
During his first spell in Oviedo he is recognized to have score 281 goals in 220 games, this includes 231 goals in 160 competitive games. In the season 1933–34 he scored an unprecedented 60 goals in 32 games for Oviedo and another 9 goals in 5 games for the Spanish national team, this is still the highest single season goalscoring count for any Spanish born footballer.
In December 1936 he played one match for Athletic Bilbao.
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