Alberto Ormaetxea

Alberto Ormaetxea Ibarlucea ( born April 7, 1939 in Eibar, Guipúzcoa, † October 28, 2005 in San Sebastián) was a Spanish football player and coach. He was active mainly at Real Sociedad.

Ormaetxea began his football career at left-back in 1958 at SD Eibar and moved in 1962 to Real Sociedad. The team was relegated División in the pre-season from the Primera and reached only in the season 1966/67, with the participation Ormaetxeas the resurgence. Ormaetxea played for Real Sociedad to 1974 before moving into coaching.

As a coach, he was first at Real Sociedad assistant to Rafael Iriondo, Andoni Elizondo and Jose Antonio Irulegi before he replaced as head coach in the 1978/79 season the latter. Already in its second season Real Sociedad almost became a Spanish champion, but lost after 32 games without defeat in the penultimate round with 1:2 against FC Sevilla and ultimately finished only second behind Real Madrid. In the next two years, 1981 and 1982, Real Sociedad was then Spanish masters, and thus won the only two league title in the club's history.

In the 1982/83 season the team beyond the newly created Spanish Super Cup against Cup winners Real Madrid (0-1, 4-0 aet) won and reached the semifinals in the European Cup of Champions, where she was eliminated by eventual winners Hamburger SV (1: 1, 1:2 ).

Ormaetxea remained until the end of the 1984/85 season coach of the team, as the new club leaders after two less successful years sought a rebuilding under coach John Toshack. Later still Hércules CF Ormaetxea trained in Alicante.

He died after a long illness at home in San Sebastián.

• Football players (Spain )
• Football coach (Spain )
• Born in 1939
• Died in 2005
• Man
• Person (Donostia- San Sebastián)
• Person ( Basque Country )
• Spaniard