[4] Two years later he signed for Athletic Bilbao where his first match was a friendly against Swansea City.
[6] He played with Athletic Bilbao until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 when all national competitions in Spain were put on hold.
In 1937, in the midst of the civil war, he was selected for the Basque Country national football team which was sent abroad to raise funds for refugees fleeing the conflict.
In 1941 he joined River Plate in Argentina,[3] before returning to Mexico a year later to rejoin Club España.
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