Manuel Argüelles Sánchez (9 July 1897-10 December 1958) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward.
[1] Born in Gijón, he began to play football at the youth ranks of his hometown club Sportiva Gijonesa, for he played until 1913, when at the age of just 16, he joined Sporting de Gijón, featuring alongside the likes of the Villaverde brothers (Fernando and Senén).
[1] Because he was a Real Oviedo player, he was eligible to play for the Cantabric national team, a side consisting of players from the provinces of Asturias and Cantabria, and in 1917, he was summoned by them to represent them at the 1917 Prince of Asturias Cup, an official inter-regional competition organized by the RFEF.
Like many other Real Oviedo players, he was summoned to play for the Asturias national team several times, being one of the eleven footballers that played in the team's first-ever game on 4 June 1922, in a friendly against St Mirren F.C., and even though they lost 3–7, Argüelles was the author of one of the consolation goals.
[4] The Regional Asturian team then played seven official games between 1922 and 1926 in the Prince of Asturias Cup, winning the 1922–23 edition after beating Biscay in the quarter-finals, Catalonia in the semi-finals and Galicia 3–1 in the final.