Sabino Barinaga
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sabino Barinaga Alberdi | ||
| Date of birth | 15 August 1922 | ||
| Place of birth | Durango, Spain | ||
| Date of death | 19 March 1988 (aged 65) | ||
| Place of death | Madrid, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1936–1938 | Southampton | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1938–1939 | Southampton | 0 | (0) |
| 1939–1950 | Real Madrid | 149 | (70) |
| 1941–1943 | → Valladolid (loan) | ||
| 1950–1954 | Real Sociedad | 56 | (22) |
| 1954–1955 | Betis | 21 | (6) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1955 | Betis | ||
| 1957–1959 | Osasuna | ||
| 1959–1960 | Betis | ||
| 1960–1961 | Oviedo | ||
| 1961–1963 | Málaga | ||
| 1963–1964 | Atlético Madrid | ||
| 1965–1966 | Valencia | ||
| 1966 | Sevilla | ||
| 1968 | Betis | ||
| 1968 | Club América | ||
| 1968–1969 | Nigeria | ||
| 1969–1970 | Mallorca | ||
| 1971–1972 | Morocco | ||
| 1973–1974 | Oviedo | ||
| 1974–1975 | Cádiz | ||
| 1978 | Oviedo | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Sabino Barinaga Alberdi (15 August 1922 – 19 March 1988) was a Spanish football forward and manager.
Over the course of 13 seasons he appeared in 205 La Liga games and scored 92 goals, almost exclusively for Real Madrid. He later embarked on a managerial career, which lasted nearly 25 years.
Born in Durango, Biscay, Barinaga moved to England in his teens at the start of the Spanish Civil War, accompanied by two of his three siblings. Whilst playing for his local high school he was discovered by Southampton, and went on to play one season with its reserve team, scoring 62 goals.
Returning to his country at the end of the conflict and as another begun, Barinaga rejected an offer from Basque giants Athletic Bilbao, moving to Real Madrid instead. An inside forward on the right flank, he made his La Liga debut on 28 April 1940 in a 1–3 away loss against precisely Athletic, his only appearance of the season.
From 1943 to 1945, after nearly two full seasons on loan in Segunda División with Real Valladolid, Barinaga scored 38 league goals in 48 games, but the Merengues came out empty on silverware. He netted the first ever goal at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, in a 3–1 win over Portugal's C.F. Os Belenenses on 14 December 1947, and won three major trophies during his nine-year spell at the club, notably two Copa del Generalísimo, with the player scoring in the 1946 edition final against Valencia CF (3–1); on 13 June 1943, he contributed with four in only 13 minutes as Real trounced FC Barcelona 11–1 at home in the domestic cup semifinals, following a 0–3 loss at Camp de Les Corts.
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