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Emilio Guruceta
Emilio Carlos Guruceta Muro (San Sebastián, November 4, 1941 - Fraga, Huesca, February 25, 1987) was an international referee of Spanish football.

Career
He made his debut in the First Division on September 21, 1969, at the Zaragoza-Pontevedra match (2-1). In that same season he was the direct protagonist of the Barcelona-Real Madrid quarter-final of the Generalissimo Cup, in which he sanctioned with a penalty Rifé's downing of Velázquez two meters outside the area, which is why he remained recused by Barcelona until July 1985.

The balance of his first campaign showed a balance of eight games and four challenges. In Riazor he whistled for the only time to Barcelona in a league match (0-0). Their 100th meeting was Celta-Las Palmas (1-2) on November 26, 1978. In the previous season he had been appointed to referee the rare figure of 16 games.

On June 6, 1970, the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Generalissimo Cup between Barcelona and Real Madrid, the referee Zariquiegui had conceded a second goal to Madrid, starting Amancio of alleged offside.

Guruceta was the chosen referee for the round, debutant that season in the first division. They had to overcome the azulgrana two to zero, and Rexach scored the first goal before the break. But the feat was frustrated when, in the second half (minute 59) the referee Guruceta pointed out as a penalty a lack of Quimet Rifé on Velázquez more than a meter from the area. A new chapter of indignation with pad throwing included in the stands. The culé captain, after the white tie, went to Guruceta and said: "you are a Madridista, you have no shame" ... and he was expelled. Then a Rifé penalty was ignored and the match could no longer be continued due to the popular outcry and the inability to silence them. Spectators jumped to the field and the match was terminated 5 minutes before the end.1

After that show the committee sanctioned the Barcelona with the maximum fine of then: 90,000 pesetas and notice of closing the field. The repetition of the party was dismissed punishing to Eladio with two parties and suspension to Guruceta of six months. The president of the National College, José Plaza Pedraz, dissatisfied with the decision, resigned from his post when Guruceta was sanctioned with a 6-month suspension for the party that made him famous.

The same president would return to his post promoting Guruceta and, at that time, he is credited with saying the phrase: "While I am president of the referees, Barça will not win the league"; The truth is that there is no documented evidence that he said so, and that the one accusing him of such a thing was an arbitrator named Antonio Camacho who had been involved in a corruption arbitration scheme, and who had been removed from the arbitration career. At the same time, Plaza was trying to promote Guruceta to represent Spain in the 1978 World Cup. He reached the international category on March 27, 1974, in a youth match between the teams of Portugal and Switzerland (5 -1). His first match of absolute selections was Portugal-England (0-0) on April 4 of that same year.

Among his more than one hundred international matches should be remembered those that corresponded to the Olympic Games in Montreal and Moscow, in 1976 and 1980. He also participated in the University Football World Cup in 1977 and the Universiade in 1979. His most curious anecdote was precisely in this last competition, in which he expelled the eleven players from Paraguay in their meeting with South Korea.

Regardless of the time he remained sanctioned by the Camp Nou penalty, he had prolonged absences on two other occasions. The first, in 1978, because of the traffic accident suffered in Mansilla de las Mulas (León) in which the occupant of the vehicle with which he collided died. As soon as he recovered from the injuries, he returned to arbitration. Assigned to the Guipuzcoano School, in the summer of 1984 he moved to live in Elche to open a footwear company.

It should be noted that at the end of 1997, Constant Vanden Stocken president of the Anderlechten, acknowledged giving Guruceta one million Belgian francs [four million pesetas] for letting the team win in a second leg of the UEFA Cup semi-finals. of 1984 between Anderlecht and Nottingham Forest. After hearing this confession, UEFA decided to punish Anderlecht with one year without the right to play in European competitions.3

For this reason and for family reasons, he was on leave for six months. Before his reappearance, in 1983, he officiated an interpueblos football match in Segovia in Urueñas. When he reappeared, midway through the 1984/85 season, he did it as a Murcian referee. In August of 1985, canceled by agreement of assembly the right of the clubs to recuse the referees, redirected to Barcelona in the Ciutat de Palma Trophy, in a match against the Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense. His last performance, the 186th League, took place on February 21, 1987 at the Estadio de Sarriá, with a Spanish-Mallorca RCD that finished 3-1 favorable for the Blue and Whites.

Four days later, Emilio Guruceta, died in a traffic accident, colliding the "BMW" that was driving against a truck that was parked on the shoulder of the A-2 motorway, at kilometer 150, in Fraga, province of Huesca. He was married and had two children, five and one year respectively. The eldest is named Gabriel in memory of a brother of Guruceta, also deceased in a traffic accident. In the accident also the line judge, Eduardo Vidal Torres, was found dead, resulting in the third member of the trio of arbitration, Antonio Coyes Antón, being injured.4

In his memory each season he is awarded the best Spanish referee a trophy that bears his name, the Guruceta Trophy.

Recipients 2 Don Ball Awards (1986 and 1987)