Bebel García García (1914 – 29 July 1936) was a Spanish football player and politician from Galicia.[1]

Bebel García
Bebel García García before 1936
Personal information
Full name Bebel García García
Date of birth 1914
Place of birth Ribadeo, Spain
Date of death 29 July 1936(1936-07-29) (aged 21–22)
Place of death A Coruña, Spain
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1933–1936 La Coruña 28 (11)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He was executed on 29 July 1936, minutes after the Spanish coup of July 1936.[2] He was honoured by Eduardo Galeano in his poem Espejos, una historia casi universal.[3] His last request was to urinate on his executioners.[4]

He played as defender for Deportivo de La Coruña from 1933 to 1936 on Segunda División and he scored 11 goals in 28 matches.[5]

His brother France was also executed and his other brother Jaurés was incarcerated because he was underage.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ Ventureira, Rubén (24 September 2008). "Bebel García era un destacado socialista. "Muy buen chico y buen delantero", recuerda García Vizoso, que jugó con él". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  2. ^ Pérez Pena, Marcos (27 August 2018). "Bebel García, jugador del Deportivo fusilado en julio de 1936, será homenajeado este domingo". El Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  3. ^ Galeano, Eduardo (8 February 2016). "Última voluntad". Memoria do Carcere (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  4. ^ Lara, Miguel Ángel (22 November 2016). "El extremo del Dépor que orinó a sus verdugos". Marca (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial Información Deportiva, S.L.U. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  5. ^ González, Borja (5 September 2018). "Bebel García: el gesto contra el franquismo que le hizo pasar a la historia antes de ser fusilado". Yahoo Sports (in Spanish). Yahoo!. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Los hermanos de la Lejía, referente histórico del socialismo coruñés". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2 March 2002. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2018.

Bibliography edit

  • Lamela García, Luís (2002). A Coruña, 1936. Memoria convulsa de una represión. Edicións do Castro.