Ignacio Uribe Etxebarria (born 27 December 1933) is a Spanish former

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who played as a forward.

Club career

Born in

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, and the son of former

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and

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player Luis María de Uribe (1906–1994), Uribe joined the latter in 1953, from

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neighbours

SD Indautxu Sociedad Deportiva Indautxu is a Spanish football club based in Bilbao, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1924, it plays in , holding home games at ''Campo Iparralde''. Apart from football, the club also promotes other ...

. He made his

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debut on 20 September of that year, in 2–3 home loss against Real Madrid. In the 1955–56 season, Uribe contributed with 30 games and nine goals to help the club win the sixth league championship in its history. During his ten-year stint at the San Mamés Stadium, he amassed overall totals of 211 matches and 69 goals, also conquering three

Copa del Generalísimo The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanish f ...

trophies (scoring the only goal in the 1955 edition, against Sevilla CF); he retired at the age of 29.

Honours

: 1955–56 *

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...

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* * 1933 births Living people Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Bilbao Men's association football forwards La Liga players Tercera División players SD Indautxu footballers Athletic Bilbao footballers Spain men's B international footballers 20th-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-footy-forward-stub