Domingo Gómez-Acedo y Villanueva (6 June 1898 – 14 September 1980), also known as Txomin Acedo, was a Spanish

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who played primarily as a left-sided forward and sometimes as a

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. Acedo was in the Spain national team that competed in the

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, and won the silver medal.

Club career

Acedo spent his entire career with

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, they won four national

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competitions, he scoring once in the 1916 Final and twice in the 1921 Final. They also won eight regional North/Biscay Championships in a 14-year spell playing alongside

José María Belauste José María de Belausteguigoitia Landaluce (3 September 1889 – 4 September 1964), known as Belauste, was a Spanish Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Born in Bilbao, Biscay, Belauste played with Athleti ...

, Sabino Bilbao and Pichichi for club and country. His primary attributes were his great pace and set-piece abilities, including scoring ' Olympic goals' (direct from a corner kick). He is the youngest player and goalscorer in the history of Athletic, having made his debut – and scored – in the ''Campeonato Regional Norte'' on 18 October 1914, at the age of 16 years, four months and 12 days. He had not been registered officially as a player with Athletic for the requisite six months, and the club were sanctioned by the

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. His records have sometimes been overlooked and the feats attributed incorrectly to Agustín Gaínza (and subsequently to Iker Muniain). Acedo is also the club's youngest player and scorer in the

having found the net on his debut in that competition on 25 April 1915, aged 16 years, 10 months and 19 days (neither Muniain nor Gainza played in the cup before turning 17).

International career

On 28 August 1920, Otero was among national team history as one of the eleven footballers who played in the first game of the Spain national team for the

, in an eventual 1–0 victory over

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. He featured in three more games at the tournament, scoring the winning goal against

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and starting in the play-off for the silver medal against the

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, which Spain won 3–1. In total, he earned 11 caps for Spain between 1920 and 1924, scoring 1 goal. With Athletic playing in the local league, he was summoned to play for the

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, and was a member of the team that participated in the 1922–23 Prince of Asturias Cup, an inter-regional

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organized by the

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. In the quarter-finals against

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on 13 November 1922, Acedo imprinted his name in the competition's history with an late equaliser in

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to level the scores at 2–2 and force a second extra period in which Asturas prevailed as 4–3 winners.

International goals

:''Acedo's team score listed first, column indicates score after his goal.''

Spain

Biscay

Personal life

Domingo Acedo's older brother Aquilino also played for Athletic Bilbao just prior to his younger sibling's debut; in his brief career he featured in the 1913 Cup final defeat to Racing Irun, and in the inaugural match at San Mamés stadium against the same opposition (now renamed Real Unión), before retiring through injury. A sister of the family, María Mercedes Acedo, married the journalist

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. They were the grandparents of

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in the 1990s.

Honours

Club

Athletic Bilbao *

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; runner-up:

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. * North/Biscay Regional Championship (8): 1914–15, 1915–16, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1926–27, 1928–29

International

Spain *

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Silver medal:

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Acedo, Domingo 1898 births 1980 deaths Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Bilbao Athletic Bilbao footballers Spain men's international footballers Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Spain Olympic silver medalists for Spain Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Men's association football forwards Basque Country men's international footballers