Ángel Zubieta Redondo was a former Spanish

Spain

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 footballer

Football (soccer)

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 and manager.

Playing career

Zubieta started his playing career in the 1935–36 season at the age of 17. His impressive performances earned him a call-up to the Spain national football team

Spain national football team

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 in 1936, making him the youngest player ever to play for Spain at the age of only 17 years and 9 months.

Later in 1936 the Spanish civil war

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

 disrupted his playing career. During the conflict he played for the Basque Country national football team

Basque Country national football team

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. The team undertook a tour of South America and in 1939 Zubieta was signed by Argentine

Argentina

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 side San Lorenzo de Almagro. Zubieta stayed with the club for 13 seasons, playing 352 games for the club, scoring 29 goals. He occupies 3rd place on the list of San Lorenzo players with most games for the club During his time at the club, they won the Argentine Primera in 1946 and the Copa Río de La Plata in the same year.

In 1952 Zubieta returned to Spain, joining Deportivo de La Coruña

Deportivo de La Coruña

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 where he played until his retirement in 1956 at the age of 38.

Titles

Season	Team	Title
1935–36	Athletic Bilbao Athletic Bilbao Athletic Club, also known as Athletic Bilbao, is an association football club from Bilbao in Biscay, Spain. The club has played in the Primera División of La Liga since its start in 1928. They have won La Liga on eight occasions...	La Liga La Liga The Primera División of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional , commonly known as La Liga or, for sponsorship reasons, Liga BBVA since 2008, is the top professional association football division of the Spanish football league system...
1946	San Lorenzo	Primera División Argentina Primera División Argentina The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...
1946	San Lorenzo	Copa Río de La Plata

Managerial career

After retiring as a player Zubieta took up management. He had spells in charge of Athletic Bilbao

Athletic Bilbao

Athletic Club, also known as Athletic Bilbao, is an association football club from Bilbao in Biscay, Spain. The club has played in the Primera División of La Liga since its start in 1928. They have won La Liga on eight occasions...

 (1962–1963) Real Valladolid

Real Valladolid

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 (1963–1964) as well as managing in Portugal Belenenses and in Mexico Real Jaén

Real Jaén

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 (1969–1970) and Pumas UNAM (1970–1974).

Zubieta also returned to Argentina working as manager of Club Atlético Atlanta

Club Atlético Atlanta

Club Atlético Atlanta is an Argentine sports club from Buenos Aires. Nicknamed Los Bohemios , its football team won the 2010/11 Primera B Metropolitana championship and promoted to the Primera B Nacional for the 2011/12 season.-History:The club was founded on October the 12th, 1904 in Buenos...

 amongst other teams. He died in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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 on 28 October 1985 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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.