The first goalkeeper to stop a penalty

On January 21, 1901 was born in Barcelona Ricardo Zamora, considered by many as one of the best goalkeepers in world football. Zamora was a puny and sickly child. His father, a doctor, came to think that he would end up with tuberculosis. All evils were fixed on him. And at the age of eight he had his first major injury. A wound in one foot was about to cause a gangrene. If that were the case, Zamora would not have been a footballer. But fortunately the wound that had been caused in a ground soccer field healed after a complicated surgical intervention. The operation was necessary so that at least two fingers were not pointed at him.

His parents ended up sending him to Tona, a small town in Barcelona, ​​famous for its sulphurous waters. It was that with those magical waters, a good diet and rest would serve to gain weight and corpulence. So it was. After that stage he started playing at the San Vicente de Paul school in Barcelona. And there began the spectacular career of the athlete.

At age 16 he defended the goal of Real Club Deportivo Español and in 1919 he moved to FC Barcelona, ​​where he remained until 1922, year in which he returned to the Spanish box in which he remained until 1931, later signing for Real Madrid until the season 1935-36, when he decided to retire from the practice of active football.

He won five titles of Spanish Cup champion, and two league championships with Real Madrid. He defended the Spanish goal on 46 occasions and debuted in the match in which the national team played its first international match. It was on August 28, 1920, in Brussels, against Denmark and in the match corresponding to the VII Olympic Games.

Once retired as a player, Zamora went on to train, doing so from 1939 to 1950 at Atlético de Aviación, Celta and Málaga, among others. In 1952 it happened to occupy the position of national trainer, but it only remained in him during the summer of that year. Later, he served as a sports critic in a newspaper in Madrid on September 17, 1978.

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