Antonio Bilbao La Vieja

Antonio Bilbao
Bilbao la Vieja covered on
El Gráfico, July 1924.
Birth nameAntonio Alfredo Bilbao la Vieja y Rosende Mitre
Date of birth1892
Place of birthBuenos Aires, Argentina
Date of deathJanuary 6, 1980.
Place of deathBuenos Aires, Argentina
Rugby union career
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
San Isidro ()
Coaching career
Years Team
1927 Argentina

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

The San Isidro team of 1922.

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

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

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

  1. ^ Revista CASI n° 50 Archived 2016-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, Sep 2008
  2. ^ El pasado del rugby vive en San Isidro, La Nación
  3. ^ Cuatro décadas de mística, Diario El Litoral
  4. ^ Los vascos en la Argentina: familias y protagonismo, Fundación Vasco Argentina "Juan de Garay", 2006, ISBN 9789879755655
  5. ^ Revista de arquitectura, Números 1-4;Número 6, Sociedad Central de Arquitectos, 1937
  6. ^ Archivos de la Universidad de Buenos Aires(boletín informativo de la Revista de la universidad), Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1939
  7. ^ Boletín del Museo Social Argentino, Volumen 13, Museo Social Argentino, 1924
  8. ^ Todo es historia, Números 295-300, Todo es Historia, 1992
  9. ^ Genealogías argentinas, Volumen 1, Lucio Ricardo Pérez Calvo, 2000, ISBN 9789874325624
  10. ^ Memoria y Balance (PDF), Unión Argentina de Rugby, archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2013