Andoni Zubizarreta

Andoni Zubizarreta is a genuine Spanish legend, and the kind I most admire. He guarded the goal for Athletic Bilbao and then eight years at Barcelona, and for a long stretch he was the most-capped player in Spain's history. What gets me is that he did not vanish after retiring, he moved into the front office and kept shaping clubs as a football executive. Standing alone in goal for hundreds of matches takes a different sort of nerve. A man who built so much of modern Spanish football, both between the posts and behind the scenes, leaves me with deep respect.

Name (English)

Andoni Zubizarreta

Name (Japanese)

アンドニ・スビサレッタ

Reading

あんどに・すびされった

Born

October 23, 1961 (age 64)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

Origin

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Spain

Height

2 cm

Occupation

association football player / businessperson

Awards & achievements

• Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%93%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%BF

Tags

• Álava
• association football player
• businessperson

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.