Manuel Suárez de Begoña

alt=Street dedicated to the footballer Manuel Suárez de Begoña in the city of Alicante. Street dedicated to the footballer Manuel Suárez de Begoña in the city of Alicante. Manuel "Manolo" Suárez de Begoña (1895 – 23 August 1936) who played as forward for Arenas Getxo and Athletic Club.

Club career Suárez began to play football aged 13, at the Athletic Club amateur side. He studied at an English university for four years, where he practiced football and athletics.

After a tour of nine years at Athletic, all of them as an amateur, Suárez moved to Arenas de Getxo in 1917, at the age of 22. He quickly became the club's starting striker and in his first season at the club, he guided Arenas to the 1917 Copa del Rey Final, in which Suárez netted the opening goal in an eventual 1–2 loss to Madrid FC (now Real Madrid).

After two year spell with RCD Espanyol and a few years without a club, he joined his youth club, Athletic Club, in 1925, making his debut on 11 October, scoring four goals against Sestao.

Managerial career On 14 January 1934, Hércules CF fired coach Lippo Hertzka, and decided to name him Suárez as his successor, taking over as coach of the team and serving as player-manager until the end of the season.

Death However, at the end of the 1935–36 season, the Spanish Civil War broke out in Spain. A few days later Manolo Suárez was arrested while walking through the Portal de Elche. Some sources suggest that he was a Falangist, while other sources state that he was arrested simply for being friends with two people from the Falange, but in either way, the Basque had nothing to do with the coup, and was not even put on trial for it. On 23 August 1936, Manuel Suárez was assassinated on the outskirts of Alicante at the onset of the Spanish Civil War.

Honours Player Arenas Club Copa del Rey runner-up: 1917

Athletic Bilbao Biscay Championship: 1925–26, 1927–28

As a manager Hércules Tercera División promotion: 1933–34 Segunda División champions: 1934–35