Alberto Ysaias Zarraoa Gazaga (18 February 1882 – 4 October 1953) was a Spanish footballer who served as the 5th president of Athletic Bilbao between 1908 and 1910.
[3][4] He appeared on the club's first board of directors as a vocal alongside the likes of Juan Murga, Adolfo Astoreca, and Darío Arana under the presidency of Enrique Allende.
[5] The Bilbao board of directors, aware of the critical situation that the club has gone through in recent times, promotes football in college centers by encouraging the kids to practice with the most outstanding players of tomorrow, revitalizing their weak youth academy and the same It happens with the University of Deusto, an institution that promotes football to recover part of the clubs that left it just a few years ago.
[5] The club then won Copa del Rey title in 1910, beating Real Sociedad (which played under the umbrella of Vasconia) by 1–0 thanks to a goal from Remigio Iza.
[5][2] In 1909, Zarraoa commissioned his player Juan Elorduy, taking advantage of the fact that he was going to make a trip to England, to purchase fifty shirts for the team and its Madrid branch, a task that he failed to complete because he could not find such a large number of harlequinade zamarras.