Raimundo Pérez Lezama
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Raimundo Pérez Lezama | ||
| Date of birth | 29 November 1922 | ||
| Place of birth | Barakaldo, Spain | ||
| Date of death | 23 July 2007 (aged 84) | ||
| Place of death | Laguardia, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Southampton | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1939–1940 | Southampton | 0 | (0) |
| 1940–1941 | Arenas Getxo | ||
| 1941–1957 | Athletic Bilbao | 197 | (0) |
| 1955 | → Barakaldo (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 1957–1958 | Indautxu | 1 | (0) |
| 1958–1960 | Sestao | 34 | (0) |
| 1960–1961 | Arenas Getxo | ||
| Total | 237 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1947 | Spain | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Raimundo Pérez Lezama (29 November 1922 – 23 July 2007) was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
After beginning his professional career in England, he returned to his country, going on to later represent, mainly, Athletic Bilbao.
Lezama was born in Barakaldo, Biscay but moved to England as a refugee at the age of 14. He entered at the port of Southampton on board the Habana on 23 May 1937, him and his brother Luis being among 3,889 Basque children fleeing the Spanish Civil War.
While in Southampton, he played for his school, Nazareth House (less than half a mile from The Dell), where he was spotted by Southampton and signed for the club as a trainee, eventually progressing to the B-team before making his first-team debut on 1 June 1940, in a 0–5 away defeat against Arsenal. His next game was at Craven Cottage, when the "Saints" fielded five Arsenal players (Ernie Collett, Leslie Compton, Eddie Hapgood, Leslie Jones and Bernard Joy) in a 2–1 victory over Fulham. Despite the plethora of stars, both Saints goals were scored by local boy, Eric Webber.
Lezama played one further game, a 1–3 defeat at Charlton Athletic at the end of an extended wartime season. Despite being underage, he briefly worked as a driver for the Royal Air Force.
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