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Juan Manuel Basurco

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Juan Manuel Basurco
Personal information
Full name Juan Manuel Basurco Ulacia
Date of birth (1944-01-22)22 January 1944
Place of birth Mutriku, Spain
Date of death 20 March 2014(2014-03-20) (aged 70)
Place of death San Sebastián, Spain
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Mutriku Futbol Taldea
1969 Club Deportivo San Camilo
1970 LDU Portoviejo
1971 Barcelona SC
1971 LDU Portoviejo
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan Manuel Basurco Ulacia (22 January 1944 – 20 March 2014) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward.

Early life

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Basurco was born on 22 January 1944 in Mutriku, Spain and was a native of Mutriku, Spain. At a young age, he trained to become a priest[1] and embarked on a mission to Ecuador at the age of twenty-five.[2]

Career

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Basurco started his career with Spanish side Mutriku Futbol Taldea. In 1969, he signed for Ecuadorian side Club Deportivo San Camilo. One year later, he signed for Ecuadorian side LDU Portoviejo.

Subsequently, he signed for Ecuadorian side Barcelona SC in 1971, where he played in the Copa Libertadores and donated his salary to impoverished children in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The same year, he signed for Ecuadorian side LDU Portoviejo.

Personal life

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After retiring from professional football, Basurco returned to Spain where he worked as a philosophy teacher, with his last visit to Ecuador coming in the 1990s. Married with children, he died in San Sebastián, Spain on 20 March 2014,.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "La noche que el Padre Basurko tocó el cielo". mundodeportivo.com.
  2. ^ "Bazurko, el cura milagroso". futbolsapiens.com.
  3. ^ "Bazurko fue una leyenda amarilla". elcomercio.com.