Patricio Escobal

[6][5] Following a three-year hiatus, Escobal returned to the active practice of football in his hometown Logroño, where he played for a season and a half, forming a defensive pair with Recarte.

[6] On 2 September 1934, he played his last game as an active player and then he left football to dedicate himself entirely to engineering, a profession in which he had a hopeful beginning in the Logroño City Council.

[5][6] Escobal was a member of the Spanish football squad that competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches as Spain was knockout by Italy.

[6] He firmly believed that Spain would soon experience a period of great prosperity, but things went wrong and the hatred between the political factions soon acquired a dark, almost solid consistency, so Escobal sought refuge in his native Logroño where he took a position as an engineer in the City Council, married Teresa Castroviejo, daughter of a well-known dental professional in Logroño, and played in the local football club, which had just inaugurated the Las Gaunas field.

[6] Escobal went to the street once again, but this time heading down a dark path of no return, since he did so by being accused of being a leftist and a Freemason and once again landing him in jail on the rebel side.

[6] He was then sentenced to 30 years in prison, but unlike his Republican co-religionists, he saved his life by escaping execution on four occasions not only because of the well-off and good position of his family, but also due to being a famous football player.

[6] In 1940, Escobal hurriedly fled his homeland to board a ship in Portugalete, which took him and his wife, María Teresa Castroviejo, into exile to Cuba and later to the United States,[6][7] and while in the latter, he wrote a book titled Las Sacas in which he recounted his terrible experience during the war.