Filomeno Urdiroz

Filomeno Urdiroz Apezarena (6 July 1904 – 21 January 1937), better known by his nickname Filo Urdiroz, was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for CA Osasuna. His younger brothers Emilio (Urdiroz I) and Martín (Urdiroz II) also played football for Osasuna. The three brothers were linked to left-wing organizations and a few days after the coup, Filomeno was arrested, imprisoned and finally shot in .

Early life Filomeno Urdiroz was born on 6 July 1904 in Burguete, Navarre, into a working-class family committed to football and Navarrese socialism. His father, Leandro Urdíroz Larequi, died in a work accident, hit by a train, at the El Irati company, and his mother, Feliciana Apezarena Labayen, when widowed, moved to Pamplona, bringing eight children with her (Filo being the third). From a very young age, they had to work hard as carpenters, mechanics, shoemakers, or El Irati auditors. The desire to fight for the common good led almost the entire family to political and union militancy.

Playing career Urdiroz was a carpenter by profession and alternated his work activities with playing football as a goalkeeper, being one of the co-founders of Aurora SC in 1923, at the age of 19, which competed in the Gipuzkoa Championship, like the rest of the Navarrese teams, until 1928. Some of the eleven players who played that day will never appear in the club's official data, such as Filomeno, whose name appeared as "Urreaga" in the press, when in reality Filo was the only goalkeeper on the trip to Murcia. His sister Teresa married Alipio Nebreda, a socialist, PSOE activist, monetary contributor, and who presided over the Navarre Football Federation for 20 years, from 1934 to 1954. Three years later, on 6 December 1939, Petra managed to exhume his body and transfer it to the Pamplona cemetery.

Coincidentally, in a match for Aurora against his former club Osasuna in the 1930–31 Tercera División, Urdiroz conceded a goal from Andrés Jaso, and both went on to be killed in the Spanish Civil War.