.jpg) Acedo with the Spanish Olympic team, 1920 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Domingo Gómez-Acedo y Villanueva | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1898-06-06)6 June 1898 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bilbao,Spain | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 14 September 1980(1980-09-14) (aged 82) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Getxo, Spain | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Barcelona[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| 1913–1914 | Athletic Bilbao | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1914–1929 | Athletic Bilbao | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1920–1924 | Spain | 11 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1922–1924 | Vizcaya | 2 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Domingo Gómez-Acedo y Villanueva (6 June 1898 – 14 September 1980), also known asTxomin Acedo,[1][2] was a Spanishfootballer who played primarily as a left-sidedforward and sometimes as aleft back.[3] Acedo was in theSpain national team that competed in the1920 Summer Olympics, and won the silver medal.[1][2]
Acedo spent his entire career withAthletic Bilbao, they won four nationalCopa del Rey competitions, he scoring once in the1916 Final and twice in the1921 Final. They also won eight regionalNorth/Biscay Championships in a 14-year spell playing alongsideJosé María Belauste,Sabino Bilbao andPichichi for club and country. His primary attributes were his great pace and set-piece abilities, including scoring 'Olympic goals' (direct from a corner kick).[1]
He is the youngest player and goalscorer in the history of Athletic, having made his debut – and scored – in theCampeonato Regional Norte on 18 October 1914, at the age of 16 years, four months and 12 days.[4][5] He had not been registered officially as a player with Athletic for the requisite six months, and the club were sanctioned by thefederation.[1] His records have sometimes been overlooked and the feats attributed incorrectly toAgustín Gaínza (and subsequently toIker Muniain).[6]
Acedo is also the club's youngest player and scorer in theCopa del Rey having found the net on his debut in that competition on 25 April 1915, aged 16 years, 10 months and 19 days (neither Muniain nor Gainza played in the cup before turning 17).
On 28 August 1920, Otero was among national team history as one of the eleven footballers who played in the first game of theSpain national team for the1920 Summer Olympics, in an eventual 1–0 victory overDenmark.[7] He featured in three more games at the tournament, scoring the winning goal againstSweden and starting in the play-off for the silver medal against theNetherlands, which Spain won 3–1.[8] In total, he earned 11 caps for Spain between 1920 and 1924, scoring 1 goal.[9]
With Athletic playing in thelocal league, he was summoned to play for theBiscay autonomous football team, and was a member of the team that participated in the1922–23 Prince of Asturias Cup, an inter-regionalcompetition organized by theRFEF.[10][11] In the quarter-finals againstAsturias on 13 November 1922, Acedo imprinted his name in the competition's history with an late equaliser inextra-time to level the scores at 2–2 and force a second extra period in which Asturas prevailed as 4–3 winners.[12]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 September 1920 | Broodstraat,Antwerp, Belgium |  Sweden | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1920 Summer Olympics[9] |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 November 1922 | El Molinón,Gijón, Spain |  Asturias | 2–2 | 3–4 | 1922–23 Prince of Asturias Cup quarter-final replay[12] |
Domingo Acedo's older brotherAquilino also played for Athletic Bilbao just prior to his younger sibling's debut; in his brief career he featured in the1913 Cup final defeat toRacing Irun, and in the inaugural match atSan Mamés stadium against the same opposition (now renamed Real Unión), before retiring through injury.[13][14]
A sister of the family, María Mercedes Acedo, married the journalistManuel Aznar Zubigaray. They were the grandparents ofJosé María Aznar,Prime Minister of Spain in the 1990s.[2]
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