Alberto Duñabeitia de la Mota (7 January 1900 – 1 January 1980) was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender for RCD Espanyol[1] and Athletic Bilbao.
[2][3] He was the father of the former president of Athletic Club and mayor of Bilbao, Jesús María Duñabeitia.
[1][4][5] Duñabeitia was born in Bilbao into a family of athletes, and as a young man, he played football on the beach of Pedernales.
[1][4] In 1923, Duñabeitia returned to Bilbao to play for Athletic, then coached by Fred Pentland, and in his first season at the club, he won the 1923 Copa del Rey, starting in the final, precisely in Barcelona, where he kept a clean sheet to help his side to a 1–0 win over CE Europa; while in Barcelona some newspaper was already printing its front page with the victory of the Catalan team.
[2] Duñabeitia later became a chemical engineer at the company Sociedad Española de la Dinamita [es].