Sebastián Ontoria
{{short description|Spanish footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Sebastián Ontoria
| image =
| fullname = Sebastián Ontoria Escolaza
| birth_date = {{birth date|1920|1|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = San Sebastián, Spain
| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|8|12|1920|1|20|df=y}}
| death_place = San Sebastián, Spain
| height = {{height|m=1.68}}
| position = Midfielder
| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Amara
| youthyears2 = | youthclubs2 = Lagun Artea
| youthyears3 = | youthclubs3 = Sporting Rentería
| youthyears4 = | youthclubs4 = Vasconia
| years1 = 1939–1940 | clubs1 = Casetas | caps1 = | goals1 =
| years2 = 1940–1941 | clubs2 = Zaragoza | caps2 = 7 | goals2 = 0
| years3 = 1941–1955 | clubs3 = Real Sociedad | caps3 = 315 | goals3 = 96
| years4 = 1955–1956 | clubs4 = Indautxu | caps4 = 25 | goals4 = 5
| years5 = 1956–1957 | clubs5 = Barakaldo | caps5 = 16 | goals5 = 4
| totalcaps = 363 | totalgoals = 105
| nationalyears1 = 1949 | nationalteam1 = Spain B | nationalcaps1 = 1 | nationalgoals1 = 1
| nationalyears2 = 1950 | nationalteam2 = Spain | nationalcaps2 = 1 | nationalgoals2 = 0
}}
{{family name hatnote|Ontoria|Escolaza|lang=Spanish}}
Sebastián Ontoria Escolaza (20 January 1920 – 12 August 2004) was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder.
He amassed La Liga totals of 213 games and 41 goals during 11 seasons, with Zaragoza and Real Sociedad.
Club career
Born in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Ontoria started his professional career with Real Zaragoza,{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD02/HEM/1940/03/02/MD19400302-002.pdf|title=El Zaragoza parte para Madrid con bajas...|trans-title=Zaragoza leaves for Madrid undermanned...|newspaper=Mundo Deportivo|language=Spanish|date=2 March 1940|accessdate=8 March 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1941/07/20/pagina-1/657254/pdf.html?search=Ontoria|title=Ontoria retenido|trans-title=Ontoria retained|newspaper=Mundo Deportivo|language=Spanish|date=20 July 1941|accessdate=8 March 2016}} appearing in only seven La Liga matches in his first two seasons combined and being relegated in the second. He then signed with his hometown club Real Sociedad after returning from his exile due to the Spanish Civil War,{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/2009/07/31/pagina-8/4962521/pdf.html|title=El ojito derecho de Benito Díaz|trans-title=Benito Díaz's sidekick|newspaper=Mundo Deportivo|language=Spanish|date=31 July 2009|accessdate=8 March 2016}} meeting the same fate in 1942, 1944 and 1948.
Ontoria started playing as a forward, but coach Benito Díaz eventually reconverted him into a midfielder whilst naming him team captain. During his 14-year spell at the Atotxa Stadium, he scored 114 goals across all competitions in 374 games, also reaching the final of the 1951 Copa del Generalísimo, lost to FC Barcelona.
Ontoria retired in 1957 at the age of 37, after one-year Segunda División stints with SD Indautxu and Barakaldo CF. He died in San Sebastián on 12 August 2004, aged 84.{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/2004/08/13/pagina-6/776123/pdf.html|title=Falleció el ex jugador realista Sebastián Ontoria|trans-title=Former Real player Sebastián Ontoria died|newspaper=Mundo Deportivo|language=Spanish|date=13 August 2004|accessdate=8 March 2016}}
International career
Ontoria earned one cap for Spain: on 9 April 1950, he helped to a 2–2 away draw to Portugal for the 1950 FIFA World Cup qualifiers,{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1950/04/10/pagina-3/662515/pdf.html|title=Portugal, 2 – España, 2|trans-title=Portugal, 2 – Spain, 2|newspaper=Mundo Deportivo|language=Spanish|date=10 April 1950|accessdate=8 March 2016}} that after the 5–1 win in Madrid earned the nation a ticket to the finals in Brazil.
Personal life
At the end of the Civil War, Ontoria was captured and imprisoned in a concentration camp in Zaragoza for two years, after enlisting in the Larrañaga communist battalion in the Basque army, in the early days of the uprising.
References
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External links
- {{BDFutbol|9975}}
- [http://www.bdfutbol.com/en/p/j9975.html?cat=SEL National team data] at BDFutbol
- {{NFT player|id=40950}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ontoria, Sebastian}}
Category:Spanish men's footballers
Category:Footballers from San Sebastián
Category:Men's association football midfielders
Category:Segunda División players
Category:Real Zaragoza players
Category:Real Sociedad footballers
Category:SD Indautxu footballers
Category:Barakaldo CF footballers
Category:Spain men's B international footballers
Category:Spain men's international footballers