Bebel García
 Bebel García García before 1936 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Bebel García García | ||
| Date of birth | 1914 | ||
| Place of birth | Ribadeo, Spain | ||
| Date of death | 29 July 1936 (aged 21–22) | ||
| Place of death | A Coruña, Spain | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1933–1936 | La Coruña | 28 | (11) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Bebel García García (1914 – 29 July 1936) was a Spanish football player and politician from Galicia.[1]
He was executed on 29 July 1936, minutes after the Spanish coup of July 1936.[2] He was honoured by Eduardo Galeano in his poem Espejos, una historia casi universal.[3] His last request was to urinate on his executioners.[4]
He played as defender for Deportivo de La Coruña from 1933 to 1936 on Segunda División and he scored 11 goals in 28 matches.[5]
His brother France was also executed and his other brother Jaurés was incarcerated because he was underage.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Ventureira, Rubén (24 September 2008). "Bebel García era un destacado socialista. "Muy buen chico y buen delantero", recuerda García Vizoso, que jugó con él". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2018.
- ^ Pérez Pena, Marcos (27 August 2018). "Bebel García, jugador del Deportivo fusilado en julio de 1936, será homenajeado este domingo". El Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2018.
- ^ Galeano, Eduardo (8 February 2016). "Última voluntad". Memoria do Carcere (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
- ^ Lara, Miguel Ángel (22 November 2016). "El extremo del Dépor que orinó a sus verdugos". Marca (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial Información Deportiva, S.L.U. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
- ^ González, Borja (5 September 2018). "Bebel García: el gesto contra el franquismo que le hizo pasar a la historia antes de ser fusilado". Yahoo Sports (in Spanish). Yahoo!. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
- ^ "Los hermanos de la Lejía, referente histórico del socialismo coruñés". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2 March 2002. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
Bibliography
[edit]- Lamela García, Luís (2002). A Coruña, 1936. Memoria convulsa de una represión. Edicións do Castro.
Categories:
- 1914 births
- 1936 deaths
- Deportivo de La Coruña players
- Victims of the White Terror (Spain)
- Footballers from the Province of Lugo
- People from A Mariña Oriental
- People executed by Spain by firing squad
- Spanish casualties of the Spanish Civil War
- Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction)
- Spanish men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- People killed in the Spanish Civil War
- 20th-century Spanish sportsmen