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Luis Arana (athlete)
Luis Arana Urigüen (4 February 1874 – 7 June 1951) was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper who won the 1902 Copa de la Coronación with Club Bizcaya. He later became a sailor, representing his country at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Early life Luis Arana Urigüen was born on 4 February 1874 in Santander, Cantabria, as the son of Pedro Darío Arana Mendiolea (born 1840) and Sofía Urigüen Ansótegui. He was the second of ten children, including two brothers who also played football, José Antonio (1872–1909) and Darío (1882–). Arana married Dolores de Ybarra y Lope de Calle, and the couple had three sons, Javier, Luis Ignacio, and José Antonio de Arana y Ybarra. Sporting career In 1898, the 24-year-old Arana and his older brother José Antonio were among the founders of Sporting Club de Bilbao, becoming the club's member no. 2 by 1902, only behind Federico Moyúa. Football In the late 1890s, Luis and José Antonio began playi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santander, Spain
Santander ( , ; ) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. It has a population of 172,000 (2017). It is a port city located in the northern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Cantabrian Sea. It is believed to have been a port since ancient times, due to its favourable location, and is documented as far back as the 11th century. Much of the old city was lost in the 1941 Santander fire, Great Fire of 1941. The city was then rebuilt realizing Francoist ideals of social segregation. Today, its remaining old town, beach and other attractions are popular with tourists and other visitors and its economy is mainly service based. The port is still very active and a regular ferry service operates to the United Kingdom. Fish and seafood dominate the local cuisine. Santander notably houses the headquarters of multinational bank Banco Santander, which was founded there. The city has a Santander, Spain#Climate, mild climate typic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darío De Arana
Dario is a masculine given name, etymologically related to Darius. Given name *Dario Allevi (born 1965), Italian politician *Dario Argento (born 1940), Italian film director * Dario Badinelli (born 1946), Italian triple jumper *Dario Bellezza (1944–1996), Italian poet * Dario Benuzzi (born 1946), Italian test driver *Darío Botero (1938–2010), Colombian writer and philosopher * Dario Campeotto (1939–2023), Danish singer, actor, entertainer *Dario Cologna (born 1986), Swiss cross-country skier *Dario Dainelli (born 1979), Italian footballer *Dario Franchitti (born 1973), Scottish Indianapolis 500 winner and IndyCar Series champion *Dario Fo (1926–2016), Italian Nobel prize winner *Dario García (born 1968), Argentine judoka *Dario Hübner (born 1967), Italian footballer *Dario Item (born 1972), Swiss and Antiguan and Barbudan diplomat * Dario José dos Santos (born 1946), Brazilian footballer *Dario Hunt (born 1989), American basketball player *Dario Lari (born 1979), Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burdeos
Burdeos, officially the Municipality of Burdeos (), is a municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 24,644 people. History Burdeos was established on June 12, 1948 from the barrios of Burdeos, Amot, Aluyon, Calotcot, Karlagan, Magdalo, Patnanungan, San Rafael, and Palasan island, which were previously part of the town of Polillo. Later on June 18, 1961, barrios Amaga, Busdak, Kilugan, Lood, Patnanungan Norte and Patnanungan Sur were separated from Burdeos to form the new municipal district of Patnanungan. Geography The municipality of Burdeos is geographically located in the coastal part of Polillo Island in the first Congressional District of the Province of Quezon, a town that is trapezoidal in shape, facing the vast Pacific Ocean with an area of approximately . Burdeos is composed of 13 barangays, three of which are island barangays, with 25 islands which are potential tourist spots. The territorial water of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called "''Bordelais'' (masculine) or "''Bordelaises'' (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region. The city of Bordeaux proper had a population of 259,809 in 2020 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Bordeaux Functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 1,376,375 that same year (Jan. 2020 census), the sixth-most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, and Toulouse. Bordeaux and 27 suburban municipalities form the Bordeaux Métropole, Bordeaux Metropolis, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan authority now in charge of wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippodrome Of Lamiako
The Limiako Hippodrome, or the Hippodrome of Lamiako, was a sports venue based in the neighborhood of Leioa, Biscay, Basque Country. Originally an equestrian venue, it's now best remembered as a historic football venue. The Campo de Lamiako played a pivotal role in the early steps of football in the Basque Country as one of the first football fields in the city, serving as a practice ground for the city’s first known football matches between the members of the ''Club Atleta'' of the Nervión Shipyards. In 1894, the Limiako field hosted a match between young Bilbao enthusiasts and British workers, which is now regarded as one of the first ‘international’ matches in the history of the sport. History Early years Campo de Lamiako was founded on 18 September 1887, on the right bank of the Nervión, next to the electricity factory, towards Las Arenas, and near the train track. The goalposts were kept in the sentry box of one of the guards of the electricity factory. In that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletic Bilbao
Athletic Club (; ), commonly known as Athletic Bilbao (), or simply Athletic, is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in the city of Bilbao in the Southern Basque Country, Basque Country, Spain. They are known as ''Lehoiak'' (The Lions) because their stadium was built near a church called ''San Mamés'', which was named after Saint Mammes of Caesarea, Saint Mammes, an early Christian thrown to the lions by the Roman Empire, Romans. Mammes pacified the lions and was later made a saint. The team plays its home matches at the San Mamés Stadium. Its home colours are red and white striped shirts with black shorts. Athletic are the fourth most successful club in ''La Liga'' with eight titles to their name. In the table of titles, Athletic is second only to Barcelona, having won it 24 times. It is also the most successful Basque football club in both league and cup titles won. The club also has one of the most successful Athletic Club Femenino, wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exhibition Game
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, scrimmage, demonstration, training match, pre-season game, warmup match, or preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. Exhibition games often serve as "warm-up matches", particularly in many team sports where these games help coaches and managers select and condition players, before the competitive matches of a league season or tournament. If the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, exhibition games offer an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team. An exhibition game may also be used to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, to promote the sport, to commemorate an anniversary or a famous player, or to raise money for charities. Several sports le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Atleta De Los Astilleros Del Nervión
The Club Atleta de los Astilleros del Nervión () was a multi-sports club based in Nervión, Biscay, that mainly consisted of the British workers of the Nervión Shipyards, hence its name, but sometimes also with players hailing from all across Bilbao. It was one of the first companies dedicated to sports in the region, most notably, football, having a section dedicated to the said sport due to its rapid growth in England. In addition to football, ''Club Atleta'' also performed in other modalities such as athletics, cricket, and cycling, although they also practiced others such as rugby, rowing and tug of war. This entity is best remembered for its pioneering role in the amateur beginnings of football in the Basque Country, organizing the first known football match in the Basque Country on 4 April 1890, between the Machinery Department (engineers) vs the Shipyard Workers. These football teams were scratch teams that existed between 1890 and 1894. ''Club Atleta'' was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Castellanos (footballer)
Manuel Ángel Juan Bautista de Castellanos Jacquet was a Spanish engineer and Association football, footballer and the 12th president of Athletic Bilbao between 1929 and 1933. He still is the most successful president in the history of the club; under the guidance of Fred Pentland, Athletic won two La Liga titles and four Copa del Reys in his four years in office. Early life Castellanos was born in 1883 in the , as the son of a Mexican father, Manuel Herculano de Castellanos Marín (1856–?) and of Manuela Carlota Ignacia de Jacquet, a native of Madrid and the daughter of Carlos Hipólito Jacquet Saint-Mars, a wealthy banker of French origin, who established himself as a merchant in Bilbao in 1860 and who became the city's consul of France. He had an older brother Carlos Castellanos (footballer), Carlos (1881–1903), who became the first president of Bilbao Football Club, Bilbao FC, while one of his cousins, María Mestayer de Echagüe (1877–1949), known as "Maritxu", became th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Castellanos (footballer)
Carlos Castellanos Jaquet (1881 – 1903) was a Spanish football pioneer who is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the amateur beginnings of Football in the Basque Country, having been the fundamental head behind the foundation of Bilbao Football Club in 1900, the first-ever club in Bilbao, and then serving as the club's first president between 1901 and 1903. Under his leadership, Bilbao FC merged with their city rivals Athletic Club to form a team that became known as Club Bizcaya, which won the 1902 Copa de la Coronación, the very first national tournament played in Spain. Early life Castellanos was born in 1881 as the son of a Mexican father, Manuel Herculano de Castellanos Marín (1856–?) and of Manuela Carlota Ignacia de Jacquet, a native of Madrid and the daughter of Carlos Hipólito Jacquet y Saint-Mars, a wealthy Parisian banker of French origin, who had established himself as a merchant in Bilbao in 1860. He had a younger brother Manuel (1883– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
