Luis María de Uribe Echevarría (17 October 1906 – 18 November 1994), nicknamed Volea, was a Spanish

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who played as a

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for

Real Madrid Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, th ...

and

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 ...

. He was a member of the great Bilbao side under

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that won two

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titles and three

Copa del Rey 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 Spanis ...

titles in the early 1930s. He is the father of former Athletic Bilbao footballer

Ignacio Uribe Ignacio Uribe Etxebarria (born 27 December 1933) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a forward. Club career Born in Bilbao, and the son of former Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao player Luis María de Uribe (1906–1994), Uribe joine ...

Playing career

Real Madrid

Uribe was born on 17 October 1906 in

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. When he finished high school he moved to Madrid in 1924, at the age of 18, to study medicine, settling in a boarding house. Whilst in the capital, he joined the ranks of Sociedad Gimnástica before being signed by Real Madrid. He was a pure amateur and coincided with the arrival of the first professional that Madrid had:

José María Peña Anacleto José María Peña Salegui (9 April 1895 – 13 January 1989) was a Spanish professional football player and manager. Born in Las Arenas, he started playing football as a midfielder at Arenas Club de Getxo in 1913; teammates included ...

. In the quarterfinals of the

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, he scored once in a 4–1 victory over

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, but the team lost in the semifinals to

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. In total, he scored 60 goals in just 57 competitive matches, including 24 goals in 26 cup matches between 1926 and 1929. He left Madrid in 1929, the same year in which the national first division was founded, with Uribe playing only one such match with the white team, on 16 June 1929 in a 2–0 victory against

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Athletic Bilbao

Once he finished his studies in 1929, Uribe returned to the Basque Country, where he joined the ranks of Fred Pentland's Athletic Bilbao. He was a member of the squad that won two league titles and three Copa del Rey titles between 1930 and 1934 under Pentland; however, he did not play a major role in these triumphs due to the presence of other talented forwards considered among the best in the club's history ( Lafuente,

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Chirri II Ignacio María Agirrezabala Ibarbia, nicknamed Chirri II (10 May 1909 – 11 September 1979) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward. He played four times for Spain. Career At club level, he played for Athletic Bilbao for eight se ...

, Bata and

Guillermo Gorostiza Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes (15 February 1909 – 23 August 1966) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward. In a 14-year professional career, he played for Athletic Bilbao and Valencia, amassing La Liga totals of 255 games and 178 goal ...

). In his first year, for example, he only played two matches in the regional championship, without participating in the league or the cup. Despite not being a prominent regular, he got to start (as a midfielder) in the 1932 final, helping his side to a 1–0 victory over

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. According to his son, Uribe "was a bit of the team's wild card when one of the starters was missing", and when given the opportunity he often demonstrated his qualities and his shooting power. For instance, on 14 December 1930, he made his La Liga debut with the Bilbao team, scoring twice in the

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against

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to help his side to a 6–1 win. In total, he scored 26 goals in just 43 games, including a

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in his last League game, on 12 November 1933, against

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Honours

Real Madrid *

Campeonato Regional Centro The Campeonato Regional Centro ( Spanish for Central Regional Championship) was an annual association football competition for clubs based primarily in the Castile region of Spain, including the Community of Madrid, during the first half of the 2 ...

: 1927, 1929 Athletic Club *

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: 1930–31, 1933–34 *

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1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

1933 Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independen ...

Biscay Championship The Biscay Regional Championship ''(Campeonato Regional de Vizcaya)'', also called the North Regional Championship ''(Campeonato Regional Norte)'' in its early editions, was an official football tournament in Spain organised by the North Footbal ...

: 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934

References

External links

Luis María Uribe
at athletic-club.eus * {{DEFAULTSORT:Uribe, Luis Maria 1906 births 1994 deaths Footballers from Biscay Spanish men's footballers Men's association football forwards Athletic Bilbao footballers Real Madrid CF players People from Mungialdea La Liga players 20th-century Spanish sportsmen