Pololo (footballer)

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Pololo

| image = Pololo and Bernabeu 1922.jpg

| image_size = 250

| caption = Pololo (right) and Bernabéu (left) in 1922

| fullname = Miguel Durán Terry

| birth_date = {{birth date|1901|8|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Lugones, Asturias, Spain

| death_date = {{death date and age|1934|10|1|1901|8|5|df=yes}}

| death_place = Spain

| height =

| position = Defender

| years1 = 1919–1926 | clubs1 = Athletic Madrid | caps1 = 44 | goals1 = 8

| years2 = 1926–1929 | clubs2 = Real Oviedo | caps2 = | goals2 =

| nationalteam1 = Spain

| nationalyears1 = 1921–1923

| nationalcaps1 = 2

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| nationalyears2 = 1923–1924

| nationalteam2 = Madrid

| nationalcaps2 = 2

| nationalgoals2 = 0

}}

Miguel Durán Terry, better known by his nickname Pololo (5 August 1901 – October 1934), was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender for Athletic Madrid.{{cite web |url=https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j3024.html |title=Pololo, Miguel Durán Terry - Footballer |website=www.bdfutbol.com |access-date=8 August 2022 |archive-date=27 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627184928/https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j3024.html |url-status=live }} He was assassinated in Oviedo during the Asturias Revolution of 1934.

Club career

Miguel Durán Terry was born in Asturias as the only son of Miguel Durán Walkinshaw, director of la fábrica de Explosivos de Coruño y Santa Bárbara (an Explosives factory). At the end of the second decade of the 20th century, he went to Madrid to study a career as a Mining Engineer, in whose High School the Athletic Club of Madrid (currently known as Atlético Madrid) had been created a few years before.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}

Pololo joined Atlético in 1919, which was also the same year Monchín Triana arrived at the club. Together with Sansinenea, Miguel Mieg and fellow foreign student Ramón Olalquiaga, he was a key element in the club's triumph at the 1920–21 Centro Championship, the club's first-ever piece of silverware, and then he helped Atlético reach the 1921 Copa del Rey Final, where they were beaten 1–4 by Athletic Bilbao.{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/spancup1921.html |title=Spain - Cup 1921 |date=12 February 2001 |accessdate=8 August 2022 |archive-date=15 July 2022 |website=RSSSF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715211343/https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/spancup1921.html |url-status=live }} After finishing his studies, he returned to Asturias to join the family business. However, he continued to be enrolled in the ranks of Atlético Madrid until 1926, traveling on his own motorcycle to the capital of Spain or wherever he was to play away games.{{cite web |url=http://www.telecable.es/personales/atleticodelugones/Historia/Pololo.htm |title=Biografía de Pololo en la página del Atlético de Lugones |trans-title=Pololo's biography on the Atlético de Lugones page |language=es |website=www.telecable.es |access-date=8 August 2022 }} He was once again pivotal in helping the club reach the 1926 Copa del Rey Final, which they also lost, this time 2–3 to FC Barcelona.{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/spancup1926.html |title=Spain - Cup 1926 |date=12 February 2001 |accessdate=8 August 2022 |archive-date=11 August 2022 |website=RSSSF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811004445/https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/spancup1926.html |url-status=live }} It can be said that Pololo along with teammate Triana, contributed to turning Atlético Madrid into an important team in the capital. In total he made 44 appearances and netted 8 goals in 7 years.{{cite web |url=https://www.infoatleti.es/jugador/miguel-duran-pololo |title=Pololo (Miguel Durán y Terry) - Infoatleti |language=es |website=www.infoatleti.es |access-date=8 August 2022 |archive-date=30 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730012813/https://www.infoatleti.es/jugador/miguel-duran-pololo |url-status=live }}

In 1926, when Real Oviedo was created, Pololo decided to join the team, featuring alongside the likes of José Luis Zabala and Rogelio Barril, and he remained in the club until his retirement in 1929.

International career

He played two matches for the Spain national football team in 1921 and 1923, both of which were friendlies against Portugal and both ended in victories, with Pololo helping his side keep a clean sheet on the latter one.{{cite web |url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=5160 |title=Pololo, international football player |website=eu-football.info |access-date=8 August 2022 |archive-date=7 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607185307/https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=5160 |url-status=live }}

As an Athletic Madrid player, Pololo was eligible to play for the Madrid national team, and he was part of the team that reached the final of the 1923–24 Prince of Asturias Cup, an inter-regional competition organized by the RFEF.{{cite web |url=https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/c/plantilla.html?temporada=497&club=Centro&tab=partits |title=Squad of Centro 1923-24 Copa del Príncipe de Asturias |website=www.bdfutbol.com |accessdate=8 August 2022 |archive-date=7 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707235744/https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/c/plantilla.html?temporada=497&club=Centro&tab=partits |url-status=live }} Pololo started in the final against Catalonia and conceded 4 goals in a 4–4 draw, which cost him his place to the team's backup defender, Alfonso Olaso, who started in the second leg which Madrid lost 2–3.{{cite web |url=http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2009/09/la-copa-principe-de-asturias/ |title=La Copa Príncipe de Asturias |trans-title=The Prince of Asturias Cup |language=es |publisher=CIHEFE |author=Vicente Martínez Calatrava |date=17 August 2009 |accessdate=8 August 2022 |archive-date=14 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414023118/http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2009/09/la-copa-principe-de-asturias/ |url-status=live }}

Death

At the start of the Asturias Revolution of 1934, Miguel Durán, along with his father and other engineers, was assassinated.{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-madrid-19341031-32.html |title=ABC MADRID 31-10-1934 página 32 |language=es |website=www.abc.es |date=31 October 1934 |access-date=8 August 2022 |archive-date=11 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811004458/https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-madrid-19341031-32.html |url-status=live }}