José Eulogio Garate

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José Eulogio Gárate Ormaechea (September 20, 1944, Sarandí, Buenos Aires) is a Spanish former soccer player and industrial engineer born in Argentina who played as a forward. His first team was Sociedad Deportiva Eibar, although most of his career was spent at Atlético de Madrid, a club to which he owes his greatest successes and sporting recognitions and of which he is one of the top footballers. history of him. He was international with the Spanish team 18 times.

He is the nephew of José Muguerza Anitúa, who was also an international footballer from Eibar.

Biography

He was born in 1944 in Sarandí, Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) circumstantially. His grandfather, Eulogio Garate Osoro (1889-1965), had been Republican deputy mayor in Éibar and was exiled in Argentina as a result of the Spanish civil war and José Eulogio Gárate was born during a visit that his parents made to his exiled grandparents. In 1945, a few months after being born, he returned with his parents to Éibar, a town in the Basque Country where he grew up. Despite this, he did not obtain Spanish nationality until 1966.

He started playing in the Sociedad Deportiva Eibar youth team in 1961 and in 1963 he debuted with the first team in the Third Division. He was the top scorer in his first season with 28 goals in 30 games—top scorer in the championship—and he played in two stages of promotion to the Second Division, in which they were eliminated, first by Club Gimnástica de Tarragona and by Cádiz. Football Club, which was his last season as a "gunsmith". In 1965 he joined the Indauchu Sports Society of Bilbao, under the premise of being able to continue pursuing his engineering studies, which was essential for his parents, who did not want that since it was already a more demanding category - the Indaucharras were active in the Second Division - they distracted him from his academic training. The following year he was not signed by Athletic Club because in 1966 Spanish clubs could not sign foreign players, and Gárate was Argentine, and acquiring Spanish nationality meant doing military service, something he did not want. A supporter of the Bilbao club - of which he was a follower in his childhood - he did not manage to be granted this pardon procedure in any case, while Atlético de Madrid, another of the clubs interested in the player, did manage to do so. He therefore set his course. to Madrid in 1966, being that factor and the fact that the capital was one of the few places with an industrial engineering faculty in Spain that decided his signing.

He debuted in the First Division of the Spanish soccer league on October 16 in the 2-1 victory against Unión Deportiva Las Palmas.

As a red and white player, he won the "Pichichi trophy" on three consecutive occasions, scoring 14 goals (1968-69), 16 goals (1969-70) and 17 goals (1970-71). In none of those seasons did he manage to be the top scorer alone. In the 1968-69 season he tied in goals with Amancio Amaro, in the following season again with "El Brujo" Amaro and with his teammate Luis Aragonés, and in the 1970-71 season he tied in goals with Carles Rexach. The first of them, however, had a lot of merit, since Gárate could only play 20 league games due to an injury.

It won its first League in the 1969-70 season, to which it later added two more Leagues and two Copas del Rey. At the international level, Gárate participated in the 1974 European Cup final, and the following year he won the Intercontinental Cup, in which Atlético participated after the European champion, Bayern Munich, renounced it.

Gárate was a good scoring forward and a player who did not commit many fouls (he was only sent off once in his entire sports career). They called him The engineer of the area due to his quality within the area and because he studied Industrial Engineering during his period as a footballer. He played a total of 241 games in the first division, scoring 109 goals.

He retired from football in the 1976-77 season in which he only played one game due to a strange illness, a fungus, that affected his knee. After his retirement he dedicated himself to working as an industrial engineer.

Atlético de Madrid organized a friendly match in his honor on June 1, 1977.

José Eulogio Garate was named Ambassador of the 75th Anniversary of the Eibar Sports Society in April 2015, in an investiture ceremony organized on the lawn of the Vicente Calderón Stadium. In it, his figure was honored as "Knight of football" and a link between Eibar —the club where he debuted— and Atlético de Madrid —where he consolidated and concluded his career—, both considered by Gárate himself to be his two favorite clubs.

National team

Although he was born in Argentina, Gárate was international with the Spanish soccer team, making his international debut on October 22, 1967 in the Spain 2 - 1 Czechoslovakia match, with Domingo Balmanya as coach, Gárate scoring Spain's second goal.

Gárate played eighteen games for his national team, sixteen of them with Ladislao Kubala on the bench, scoring a total of five goals.

Statistics

Clubs

Updated to end of sports career.

Club	Season	Div.	League		Cups		International		Total		Media Shotgun
Club	Season	Div.	Part.	Goles	Part.	Goles	Part.	Goles	Part.	Goles	Media Shotgun
S. D. Eibar	1963-64	3. a	30	28	2	3	-	-	32	31	0.97
S. D. Eibar	1964-65	3. a	?	?	3	2	-	-	3	2	0.66
Total S. D. Eibar			30+	28+	5+	5+	0	0	35+	33+	0.94
S. D. Indauchu	1965-66	2. a	24	14	2	3	-	-	26	17	0.65
Atletico de Madrid	1966-67	1. a	14	9	-	-	3	-	17	9	0.53
Atletico de Madrid	1967-68		23	8	7	4	3	5	33	17	0.52
Atletico de Madrid	1968-69		20	14	4	-	2	-	26	14	0.54
Atletico de Madrid	1969-70		30	16	4	-	-	-	34	16	0.47
Atletico de Madrid	1970-71		28	17	4	3	6	2	38	22	0.58
Atletico de Madrid	1971-72		16	5	7	1	2	-	25	6	0.24
Atletico de Madrid	1972-73		24	5	2	-	-	-	26	5	0.19
Atletico de Madrid	1973-74		29	11	5	2	10	2	44	15	0.34
Atletico de Madrid	1974-75		32	17	7	2	6	1	45	20	0.44
Atletico de Madrid	1975-76		24	7	9	2	3	1	36	10	0.28
Atletico de Madrid	1976-77		1	-	-	-	-	-	1	0	0
Total Atlético de Madrid			241	109	49	14	35	11	325	134	0.41
Total career			295+	151+	56+	22+	35	11	386+	184+	0.48
↑ The goals that proclaimed him the highest scorer of the championship were lifted. ↑ Includes data from the Spanish Cup (1965-77). Party of play-off promotion to Second (1963-65). ↑ Includes Fair Cup data (1967-69); European Cup (1966-74), UEFA Cup (1971-75), Europe Cup (1975-76) and Intercontinental Cup (1974-75). ↑ It does not include goals in friendly matches.

Sources: Eibar - BDFutbol.

Selections

International parties
#	Date	Place	Local	Outcome	Visitor
1	22 October 1967	Euro Cup 1968 - Classification phase	Spain	2-1	Czechoslovakia
2	11 November 1968	1970 World Cup - Classification phase	Spain	1-1	Belgium
3	15 October 1969	1970 World Cup - Classification phase	Spain	6- 0	Finland
4	11 February 1970	Friendly	Spain	2- 0	Federal
5	21 February 1970	Friendly	Spain	2-2	Italy
6	22 April 1970	Friendly	Switzerland	0-1	Spain
7	28 October 1970	Friendly	Spain	2-1	Greece
8	20 February 1971	Friendly	Italy	1-2	Spain
9	12 April 1972	Friendly	Greece	0-0	Spain
10	23 May 1972	Friendly	Spain	2- 0	Uruguay
11	17 January 1973	1974 World Cup - Classification phase	Greece	2-3	Spain
12	21 February 1973	1974 World Cup - Classification phase	Spain	3-1	Greece
13	2 May 1973	Friendly	Netherlands	3-2	Spain
14	21 October 1973	1974 World Cup - Classification phase	Yugoslavia	0-0	Spain
15	24 November 1973	1974 World Cup - Classification phase	Federal	2-1	Spain
16	13 February 1974	1974 World Cup - Classification phase	Yugoslavia	1- 0	Spain
17	5 February 1975	Euro Cup 1976 - Classification phase	Spain	1-1	Scotland
18	17 April 1975	Euro Cup 1976 - Classification phase	Spain	1-1	Romania