Avito Manuel Carrasco Alonso (27 January 1894 – 12 March 1935) was a Spanish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a defender for

Real Unión Real Unión Club, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Irun, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in the province of Gipuzkoa, near the border with France. Founded on 15 May 1915 it currently plays in Primera División RF ...

and

Real Sociedad Real Sociedad de Fútbol, more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad ( ; ''Royal Society'') in English, and Erreala or Reala in Basque language, Basque, is a Spanish professional sports club in the city of San Sebastián, Donostia / San Sebastián, ...

. He was a member of the Spanish squad that competed in the football tournament of the

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Club career

Born in

Irun Irun (, ) is a town of the Bidasoaldea region in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. History It lies on the foundations of the ancient Oiasso, cited as a Roman- Vasconic town. During the Spanish Civil War, ...

on 27 January 1894, Carrasco began his career at his hometown club Racing de Irún in 1912, aged 18, playing a pivotal role in helping the club win the

1913 Copa del Rey The 1913 Copa del Rey comprised two different competitions held the same year. Due to disagreements between the Federación Española de Clubs de Football (FECF), forerunner of the Royal Spanish Football Federation () and some clubs, in 1913 two pa ...

, defeating

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in the

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. In 1915, Carrasco joined ''Real Unión Club de Irún'', the result of the merge between Racing de Irún and Sporting de Irún. He then helped this new team win another

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 ...

title in

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, beating

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2–0 in the

. In 1918, Carrasco signed for Real Sociedad, with whom he played for four years, until 1922, playing a total of 28 official matches, all in the

Gipuzkoa Gipuzkoa ( , ; ; ) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Its capital city is Donostia-San Sebastián. Gipuzkoa shares borders with the French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiqu ...

, including nine in the 1918–19 season, which was won by Sociedad. In 1922, he returned to Real Unión, where he retired in 1925, aged 31.

International career

Being a

player, Carrasco was eligible to play for the 'North' / Basque Country representative team, being a member of the team that won the first edition of the

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, an inter-regional competition organized by the

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. With the Basque side he formed a great defensive partnership with Athletic's Luis Hurtado, which only conceded one goal in the whole tournament, and that was to Santiago Bernabéu in a 1–1 draw with a Castille/Madrid XI, a draw that was enough for the Basques to win the cup for the first time. Carrasco was a member of the Spanish squad that competed in the

, but he failed to feature in a single game as

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won silver after beating the

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3–1 in the decisive game.

Honours

Club

;

* North Regional Championship: **Winners (1) 1917–18 *

: **Winners (2)

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and

International

;Spain *

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: **Silver medal (1):

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen in Finland, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its ow ...

;Basque Country XI *

: **Champions (1):

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carrasco, Manuel 1894 births 1935 deaths Footballers from Irun Spanish men's 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 defenders Basque Country men's international footballers Real Unión footballers Real Sociedad footballers 20th-century Spanish sportsmen