Santiago Urquiaga
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Full name | Santiago Urquiaga Pérez | ||||||||||||
Date of birth | 18 April 1958 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Barakaldo, Spain | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Right back | ||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||
1971–1976 | Athletic Bilbao | ||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
1976–1979 | Bilbao Athletic | 90 | (1) | ||||||||||
1979–1987 | Athletic Bilbao | 255 | (3) | ||||||||||
1987–1989 | Español | 46 | (0) | ||||||||||
Total | 391 | (4) | |||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||
1975–1976 | Spain U18 | 5 | (2) | ||||||||||
1977 | Spain U20 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||
1978 | Spain U21 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||
1979–1980 | Spain amateur | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||
1980 | Spain B | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||
1980–1984 | Spain | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Santiago Urquiaga Pérez (born 18 April 1958) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right back.
Club career[]
Born in Barakaldo, Biscay, Urquiaga played nine professional seasons with local powerhouse Athletic Bilbao,[1] being an instrumental defensive fixture in the club's back-to-back La Liga conquests (1983–84)[2][3] and starting in all the 67 games he appeared in during that timeframe. He made his debut in the competition on 13 May 1979, playing 26 minutes in a 0–4 away loss against Atlético Madrid.
Urquiaga's final two seasons were spent with RCD Español, helping the Catalans reach the final of the UEFA Cup in his first year, a penalty shootout loss to Germany's Bayer 04 Leverkusen. He retired in June 1989, at the age of 31.
International career[]
Urquiaga earned 14 caps for the Spanish national team during four years, and was selected to the squad for the 1982 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1984, being first-choice at the latter tournament as the nation eventually finished runner-up, to hosts France.[4] His first match occurred on 26 March 1980, in a 0–2 friendly defeat to England in Barcelona.
Urquiaga also competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Honours[]
Club[]
- Athletic Bilbao
- Español
International[]
- Spain
- UEFA European Championship: Runner-up 1984
References[]
- ^ Athletic Club: a way of life, Athletic Bilbao, 27 January 2021
- ^ "Clemente, o la maestría del 'patadón y tente tieso'" [Clemente, or how to be a master of the 'long ball and grab your balls'] (in Spanish). Medio Centro. 6 March 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ^ "Clemente, 25 años después" [Clemente, 25 years after] (in Spanish). Canarias Ahora. 15 September 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ^ "1984: Los 'bleus' se coronan tras el error de Arconada" [1984: 'Bleus' crowned after Arconada's mistake]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 13 April 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
External links[]
- Santiago Urquiaga at BDFutbol
- Santiago Urquiaga at Athletic Bilbao
- Santiago Urquiaga at National-Football-Teams.com
- Santiago Urquiaga – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Spain stats at Eu-Football
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Spanish footballers
- Footballers from Barakaldo
- Association football defenders
- La Liga players
- Segunda División B players
- Tercera División players
- Bilbao Athletic footballers
- Athletic Bilbao footballers
- RCD Espanyol footballers
- Spain youth international footballers
- Spain under-21 international footballers
- Spain amateur international footballers
- Spain B international footballers
- Spain international footballers
- 1982 FIFA World Cup players
- UEFA Euro 1984 players
- Olympic footballers of Spain
- Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Basque Country international footballers