Adolfo Miguel Ángel de Uribe Olano (29 September 1882 – after 1907) was a Spanish

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who played as a

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for Athletic Club. He is best known for scoring Bilbao's only goal in the 1906 Copa del Rey Final.

Playing career

Mittweida

Adolfo Uribe was born in Bilbao on 29 September 1882. Between 1901 and 1905 he studied

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at the Mittweida technical school (

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). There he developed an interest in football and began playing with the Mittweidaer Ballspiel-Club, the school's

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, which had been founded in 1896 by students. In his years at

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, he gained popularity as a football and

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player. When he returned to Bilbao after completing his studies in 1905, he joined Athletic Club, with whom he played between 1905 and 1908.

Bilbao

He made his competitive debut for Athletic on 10 April 1906, in the

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of the

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, netting a goal in a 1–4 loss to Madrid FC (now

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. In 1907, the best players from Athletic and

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came together to form Bizcaya, which was specially created to take part in the

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, but Uribe was not elected into the final cut, and without him, they again lost the

to Madrid FC. He stayed loyal to the club until 1908.

Honours

Athletic Bilbao *

Copa del Rey The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footb ...

: **Runner-up:

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Uribe, Adolfo 1882 births Year of death missing Spanish men's footballers Men's association football forwards Footballers from Bilbao Athletic Bilbao footballers