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Alfredo Etxabe, just named Chief of a main directorate of Sports of
the Basque Government is a good natured man; it talks in fluid problematic dialogue on the sport one of
Euzkadi. It seems as if one never got tired. As if it lived immersed in a different
world.
Been born in Plencia, it does already more than forty and..., in the
street of Sabino Arana, the time of free Euzkadi, as it aims simultaneously that it smiles. Alfredo was one of
the victims of the war and postwar period, lived in Suances (Santander) with its family
the first years on its life; later it returned to his native town where it remained until his marriage; after as it
was transferred to live to Umbe, where at the moment it resides.
To the nineteen years it began to study euskera: "I realized of which
a Basoue had to know his own language. It cost to me in the beginning
enough, but I counted on the support of many friends of Plencia who helped me ".
Good memory of
celebration of Jatabe
Although it likes all Euzkadi, their closeer
celebration
keep them from
their youthful time.
celebration
of Jatabe brings the most pleasing
memories to him. "It was in Jatabe, in popular romerías of long ago, where I knew my woman, Ana Maria Ugarte".
"In house all we are contentments with my
new position. We sacrificed ourselves, in individual my woman, who is the one that more note my
absence of the home. But I will be supercompensated if in the future good results of
the management exist that makes during theseyears ".
A little while happy: the Euzkadi-Ireland encounter
The Director of Sports remembers with affability his beginnings in the
sport. "He was seventeen years old when he began to enter gusanillo to me. By that time in Plencia a
coordination in the sport activities did not exist. I began to work hard in this field ".
It worked firmly during seven years like president of the Commission
of Celebrations of Plencia. And when it had twenty-four years it organized a tribute to Jose Felix Quevedo.
"That nitiative I conserve it like very pleasant. For me it supposed an immense joy ".
Etxabe also has defended, in seasons 53-54 and 54-55, to the youthful
ones of the Guecho for, a year later, to make debut in the equipment that militated in third division. Here its
federated sport activity finalized like. Although not its entailment to the sport.
And at the time of enumerating the
closeest memories the Euzkadi-Ireland encounter cannot be forgotten. "Perhaps he is one of
the most pleasant moments of my life when I saw in the field to the two selections".
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It is that Etxabe was the personal one in
charge to organize the shining encounter.
Also he was integral of the sport
organizations like Sustraiak and Euskal Indarra, organizers of the developed Games of Euzkadi in
the Bilbao New Seat.
Live in Vitoria and to work fifteen hours daily
Etxabe is a happy man: it works in which
it likes. "I am like fish in the water".
It does not concern the excess to him of hours either. Everything
seems to him little, for the challenge that seem to have with same himself and with the sport.
Its immediate intention is to be transferred to live on permanent form
to Vitoria, accompanied by the family. "In the trips although it is Vitoria relatively close I waste enough
time. In addition it reduces hours to me to be with mine ".
And it is that although does not stop long time in house, Etxabe is a
man hogareño one hundred percent. "As soon as the work me allows it I
escape to rest and to be with the chavales".
Ever since it acceded to Chief of a main
directorate of Sports has had very just a short time of rest. "the days Are rare that I have a pair
of hours to dedicate them to practice tennis, football, shovel or to go
to the mount".
"The Association of the Old Helmet is
something singular in the Spanish State"
Asked Extabe on the opinion that
deserves the Association to him of the Old Helmet, its answer is immediate. Not it
doubt, conversation of fast form. "It is a singular thing in all the State. Something serious
and with good results of effectiveness ". But immediately it smiles to
aim; "This I do not say it because it has good friends in the
Association, but because in fact it is thus".
Etxabe has read in numerous occasions magazine EGUN ON. Probably now
it will be to him more difficult not to lose some that another number.
But even for man like Etxabe, that does not put as much enthusiasm in
the things that takes in hand, is all color of rose either. "We must work
hard. Perhaps this effort does not notice until within a pair of years. But the personal
reconnaissance is something that sometimes must leave back. The important thing is that in the
smaller term of possible time we pruned to see the fruits of the new sport management".
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Afredo Etxabe: relative, worker, sportsman and friend of the Old
Helmet