José Ángel Iribar
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Iribar in 1978
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | José Ángel Iribar Cortajarena | ||
| Date of birth | 1 March 1943 | ||
| Place of birth | Zarautz, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Salleco | |||
| Zarautz | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1961–1962 | Basconia | 24 | (0) |
| 1962–1980 | Athletic Bilbao | 466 | (0) |
| Total | 490 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1964–1976 | Spain | 49 | (0) |
| 1979 | Basque Country | 1 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1983–1986 | Bilbao Athletic | ||
| 1986–1987 | Athletic Bilbao | ||
| 1987 | Bilbao Athletic | ||
| 1988 | Basque Country | ||
| 1993–2010 | Basque Country | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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José Ángel Iribar Cortajarena, nicknamed El Chopo ("the poplar") (born 1 March 1943), is a Spanish retired football goalkeeper and manager.
Having played almost exclusively for Athletic Bilbao, he appeared in more than 600 official games for the club over the course of 18 La Liga seasons, winning two major titles.
Iribar represented the Spain national team in the 1964 Nations' Cup and the 1966 World Cup, winning the former tournament.
Iribar was born in Zarautz, Gipuzkoa. After only three La Liga games in his first professional season at Athletic Bilbao, he proceeded to become the Basques' undisputed starter for the following 16 seasons; his senior starts were made at CD Basconia in 1961, when the latter was still not the feeder team: they eliminated Atlético Madrid in the Copa del Generalísimo, and the keeper's stellar performance prompted his signing for a then-record 1 million pesetas.
At Athletic, Iribar profitted from injury to Carmelo Cedrún in October 1963 and never looked back, going on to conquer two Spanish Cups and finish second in the 1976–77 UEFA Cup, to Juventus FC. He retired in 1980 at 37, having played in 614 matches in all competitions as another club great in the position, Andoni Zubizarreta, would arrive in the summer; during the 1970–71 campaign, he kept a clean sheet at ten successive home games, which translated into a record of 1,018 minutes.
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