Serafín Aedo Renieblas, (11 November 1908 – 14 October 1988) was a

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international

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from

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in the Basque Country who played professionally as a defender in Spain, Mexico and Argentina between 1930 and 1949.

Career

Club career

In 1930 Aedo joined his first club

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, which played in the third tier of

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an football. In 1931 he moved to

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, and then in 1933 to

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where he teamed up for the first time with fellow Basque Pedro Areso. The pair made a formidable defense, helping Betis win

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in the 1934-35 season. It has been claimed that he joined

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in 1936, and that due to the outbreak of the

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he was not able to play an official match for them. However others claim that he never signed for Barcelona and that he remained a player for Real Betis until the outbreak of the civil war. During the 1938-39 season he played for Club Deportivo Euzkadi in the

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. In 1939 he joined Club España, also in Mexico, where he played until his retirement in 1949, except for one year he spent playing for River Plate in

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. After retiring as a player he went on to work as a coach at Club España.

International career

Aedo earned 4 caps for the Spanish national side in 1935 and 1936. From 1937 to 1939 he was part of the Basque Country national team which toured Europe and the Americas.

Other work

On retiring from football he opened a shop in Mexico City selling photographic materials, before later becoming an

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Personal life

He married Miren Anúzita Zubizarreta and had three children, Miren, Jon Andoni and Angel. His grandchild Jon Andoni Aedo Donohue played for the Mexico U-23 team in the Ponce 1993 Centro American games and won a silver medal.

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