Antonio Bilbao La Vieja
 Bilbao la Vieja covered on El Gráfico, July 1924. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Antonio Alfredo Bilbao la Vieja y Rosende Mitre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 1892 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | January 6, 1980. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antonio Bilbao La Vieja (1892–1980) was an Argentine architect and rugby union footballer. He spent his entire sports career at San Isidro[1][2] and served in the Argentina national team in 1927.[3]
Biography
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Antonio Bilbao was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Antonio Gervasio Bilbao and Edelmira Felisa Rosende Mitre, of Creoles origin. His distant ancestors hailed from La Rioja, Spain.[4] He achieved prominence as an Argentine architect, undertaking his first project to construct a significant neighborhood park in La Tablada, Greater Buenos Aires.[5] Bilbao held the position of Assistant Professor of Architecture Theory at the University of Buenos Aires.[6] He was also a member of the Scientific Society Argentina.[7]
Sport career
[edit]Bilbao embarked on his sports journey as a player for Estudiantes de La Plata. Subsequently, he joined San Isidro, where he held the roles of captain and coach for the club.[8] Additionally, he assumed the position of head coach for the Argentina national rugby union team.[9]
During the 1950s, Bilbao actively participated as a member of the executive committee of the Argentine Rugby Union.[10]
Titles
[edit]All of these victories were achieved with Club Atlético San Isidro:
- Torneo de la URBA (15): 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1934
References
[edit]- ^ Revista CASI n° 50 Archived 2016-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, Sep 2008
- ^ El pasado del rugby vive en San Isidro, La Nación
- ^ Cuatro décadas de mística, Diario El Litoral
- ^ Los vascos en la Argentina: familias y protagonismo, Fundación Vasco Argentina "Juan de Garay", 2006, ISBN 9789879755655
- ^ Revista de arquitectura, Números 1-4;Número 6, Sociedad Central de Arquitectos, 1937
- ^ Archivos de la Universidad de Buenos Aires(boletín informativo de la Revista de la universidad), Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1939
- ^ Boletín del Museo Social Argentino, Volumen 13, Museo Social Argentino, 1924
- ^ Todo es historia, Números 295-300, Todo es Historia, 1992
- ^ Genealogías argentinas, Volumen 1, Lucio Ricardo Pérez Calvo, 2000, ISBN 9789874325624
- ^ Memoria y Balance (PDF), Unión Argentina de Rugby, archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2013
- 1892 births
- 1980 deaths
- Argentine people of Basque descent
- Argentine sportspeople of Spanish descent
- Argentine people of Irish descent
- Argentine rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Buenos Aires
- Argentine architects
- Club Atlético San Isidro rugby union players
- Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires