Mario Inchausti Goitía

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He was born in Caibarién, Santa Clara. At age 10 he arrived in Spain to study at the Jesuit school in Orduña.

Parallel to his high school studies and later at the School of Medicine at the University of Zaragoza, Mario pursued an intense career in football.

He stood out with the amateur team of Zaragoza, the one that played in the category final and lost to Sevilla in the 1934-1935 season.

The following year he was promoted to the First Division, but the outbreak of War paralyzed the top competition for the next three years. However, a call-up to a national team that during the war would play a series of matches against military regiments would keep the Cuban goalkeeper active in football while the mandatory League recess took place.

The fundraising that would later be invested in caring for hospitalized soldiers fighting on the front distinguished that football embassy.

After the War ended, finally the Cuban secured official entry into the first division and defended the goal of Real Zaragoza in the 1938-1939 and 1939-1940 seasons. In the last one, the Zaragoza eleven won the joint championship of Guipúzcoa, Navarra and Aragón, triumphing in nine matches… and barely losing on one occasion, with 49 goals for.

In the League, won by the defunct Atlético Aviación, the story was different and Zaragoza finished in seventh place and Cup runners-up. After concluding that season, Real Betis acquired the services of the Cuban by offering him a salary that considerably increased the 1,500 pesetas per month that Zaragoza paid him. Those were not the best years for the Betis fans who —drained by the War— were relegated to the second division in the 1940-1941 season.

In any case, Inchausti made the offer from Real Madrid count and reached an agreement with the white club for one season and 50,000 pesetas.

He earned the starting position between the posts. However, injuries took their toll on the Caribbean goalkeeper and he could not renew with the Madrid eleven at the end of the 1941-1942 season.

He returned to Zaragoza. He trained for three months, but faced with the impossibility of returning to his former self, he decided to retire from the football pitch.

He was only 26 years old. He remained linked to the sport in coaching roles and managed regional teams such as Universitario, Huesca and Sociedad Deportiva Arenas de Zaragoza, among others. Later, he joined the board of the Aragonese Football Coaches Committee which he came to preside for 21 years (1967-1988) and where he earned the Gold Badge.

Subsequently, as a coach he directed several teams, all of them of secondary status and in the regional sphere: Universitario, Huesca and Sociedad Deportiva Arenas de Zaragoza, among others.

In subsequent decades, he remained linked to the beautiful game, but in administrative positions. Thus he was part of the board of the Aragonese Coaches Committee with Antonio Teixeira, founding president. Later, Inchausti was president of said Committee until 1990, when he left the world of football.

He died at the age of 90, widowed and with two children, in the city of Zaragoza, Spain, on May 2, 2006.