Luis Bergareche

Luis Bergareche Maruri (16 May 1910 – 9 September 1994) was a Spanish businessman and footballer who played as a midfielder for Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid in the 1920s. He is best known for scoring Athletic's first-ever goal in La Liga in 1929.

Early life Luis Bergareche was born on 16 May 1910 in Balmaseda, Biscay, as the son of Santiago Bergareche, the director of a beret factory, and Adelaida Maruri, who moved to Deusto when he was a child.

During his youth, Bergareche developed a deep passion not only for football, going as far as to lie about his age to participate in a youth championship in 1922, aged 12, but also for cycling, going as far as to have a fall that left him in a coma for three days in 1927, aged 17.

In 1928, Bergareche returned to Athletic, for whom he only played five official matches, all of whom within a period of just two months, in January and February 1929, starting in the two legs of both the quarterfinals and the semifinals of the 1928–29 Copa del Rey, and then playing the opening match of the inaugural edition of La Liga on 10 February, in which he scored a first-half equaliser to help his side to a 1–1 draw with Real Sociedad at the Atotxa Stadium, thus going down in history as the author of the first-ever La Liga goal in the club's history. However, contemporary accounts disagreed on who scored the goal, with Mundo Deportivo stating that it was Victorio Unamuno, while La Vanguardia attribute it to Bergareche, and the ABC did not even named the goalscorer, describing it as "a cross from Lafuente give rise to a small melee, with the goalkeeper coming out and thus leaving the goal empty. Several players come to the shot, and finally, we see a header that sends the ball into the goal, achieving the tie, despite the clear offside that the referee doesn't want to see". In his first (and only) season at the club, he played a total of four official matches,

Journalist career and death In 1945, Bergareche entered the world of journalism when he joined the company Bilbao Editorial SA, a supporter of El Noticiero Bilbaino linked to Bergareche, and a few weeks later, he was appointed advisor to El Correo Español.

Honours Real Madrid Centro Championship: Champions (1): 1929–30