Did you know? If the top scorer of the Liga season is named “Pichichi”, named Rafael Pichichi, ATHLETIC BILBAO athletic scorer in the 1910s and 1920s, the Trophy for the best goalkeeper of the Spanish championship pays tribute to Ricardo Zamora, emblematic goalkeeper of the same era. This distinction is now given to the goalkeeper with the best ratio of goals conceded by match.
This player who passed through Barça and Real Madrid died on September 8, 1978, at the age of 77, and Spain of football pays tribute to him today.
A native of the Catalan city, Zamora was trained at Espanyol, where he won a king's cup in 1929, but then made a three -year passage among the Blaugranas, to raise two other national cups. Before entering the legend in Real Madrid and in Spanish selecompion.
Double champion of Spain with Real
Ricardo Zamora Martinez was indeed 46 times Spanish international, competing in the 1934 World Cup. And among the Merengues, he was finally crowned Spanish champion, in 1932 and 1933, by winning two other Spanish Cup with Real, in 1934 and 1936. He won the nickname “Divine” before the creation of the best goalkeeper Marca.
Zamora has the distinction of having finished his career at the OGC Nice, in 1938, before launching his coach career on the Aiglons bench! Back in Spain, he won the Liga in 1940 and 1941 with Atlético. He was coach of La Roja for a year before finishing his career at Espanyol.
