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Real Sociedad de Fútbol, more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad in English, Erreala or Reala in Basque, La Real in Spanish, is a Spanish professional sports club in the city of Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, founded on 7 September 1909. It plays its home matches at the Anoeta Stadium.
Paulino Alcántara Riestrá was a Filipino and Spanish professional football player and manager who played as a forward. He spent most of his playing career at Barcelona, and also represented Catalonia, the Philippines and Spain internationally.
Arenas Club de Getxo is a Spanish football club based in the town of Getxo, near Bilbao, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1909, it currently plays in Segunda Federación – Group 2, holding home games at Campo Municipal de Gobela, with a 2,000-seat capacity. They were winners of the 1919 Copa del Rey, beating FC Barcelona 5–2.
Roberto López Ufarte is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Mehmed "Meho" Kodro is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who played as a forward.
Ignacio Eizaguirre Arregui was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Juan 'Jon' Remigio Cuyami Vaz is a former footballer who played as a forward. Born and raised in Spain to Equatorial Guinean Fang parents, he capped for the Equatorial Guinea national team.
Pedro Vicente Saturnino Vallana Jeanguenat was a Spanish footballer, referee and manager in Spain in the 1920s. He was of Italian and Swiss descent. He spent all 12 seasons of his playing career with Arenas de Getxo, during the club's golden age, thus being a historical player of the club and part of the so-called one-club men group. He was a member of the Spain national team which won the silver medal in the football tournament of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. He participated in a further two Olympic Games for a total of three, a record that no other Spanish footballer has broken. Once retired, he was a prestigious referee in Spain in La Liga and during the Spanish Civil War, he coached the Basque Country national team, a fact that led to his exile in Uruguay after the war, living there until his death in 1980.
José Diego Álvarez Álvarez, known as José Diego, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Francisco "Paco" Bienzobas Ocáriz was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward. Having spent most of his 16-year career with Real Sociedad – 196 official games and 109 goals – he was the first player to be top scorer in La Liga, with 17 goals in 1929.
The Biscay Regional Championship(Campeonato Regional de Vizcaya), also called the North Regional Championship(Campeonato Regional Norte) in its early editions, was an official football tournament in Spain organised by the North Football Federation.
The Basque derby is the name of the football local derby between Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao. It embodies the inter-city rivalry between Bilbao and Donostia-San Sebastián, respectively the capitals of the neighbouring provinces of Biscay (Bizkaia) and Gipuzkoa in the Basque Country region of Spain. It is also occasionally referred to as the AP-8 derby, referring to the name of the highway which connects the cities.
Asier Illarramendi "Illarra" Andonegi is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Major League Soccer club FC Dallas.
Mikel Oyarzabal Ugarte is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left winger or forward for La Liga club Real Sociedad, which he captains, and the Spain national team.
Igor Zubeldia Elorza is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or a central defender for La Liga club Real Sociedad.
Since 1912, the Spanish football club Athletic Bilbao has had an unwritten rule whereby the club will only sign players who were born in the Basque Country or who learned their football skills at a Basque club. On occasion, youth players have also been invited to join due to ancestral links to the region, but no senior players have been signed based on Basque heritage alone.
Ander Barrenetxea Muguruza, commonly known mononymously as Barrene, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Real Sociedad as a forward or left winger.
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The Gipuzkoa Regional Championship was an official football tournament in Spain, organised by the Gipuzkoan Football Federation in which affiliated clubs participated. It was played annually between 1918 and 1940 and served to elect the representative of the territory in the Copa del Rey.
Nicasio Goitisolo Zubizarreta, also known as Goiti, was an footballer who played as a midfielder for Real Sociedad. He was one of the first Spaniards to participate in British football, and then had a prominent role during the first decade of the growing sport in Spain.
