Gregory Blasco received a fitting posthumous tribute in Mundaka, his hometown. The supporters club of this coastal municipality, along with family, friends and members of the Athletic Supporters Club in Mexico City, discovered a plaque with his name on one of the streets of their town, in front of the Isla Kale sports center.
The family Blasco traveled to Mundaka, with the grandson, one of the promoters of the initiative and current president of Peña de México, a position previously held by his grandfather goyo and his father. The event was also attended by Jose Angel Iribar and two other rojiblanco former goalkeepers, Juan Antonio Zaldúa Y Peio Aguirreoain addition to a representation of the Ibaigane club.
Bilbao Athletic’s goalkeeper also participated spizua birdgreat grandson of Jose Luis Ispizuawhich became a substitute Blascoand the purpose Ziara Vega, a young woman from the town who plays for Athletic’s third women’s team. definitely, bird danced an aurresku in his honor.
Blasco He was the goalkeeper of the great Athletic of the 30s, the great team led by Mr. Pentland. To this day he is the footballer with the most titles in the history of rojiblanca (equivalent to the mythical left winger of the same era Guillermo Gorostiza), with 15 gimped (4 Leagues, 4 Cups and 7 regional championships), which could have been more if not for the outbreak of the Civil War.
Source: La Verdad
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