RICARDO ZAMORA

Born in Barcelona, 1901-1978. Pyrenean footballer. He was a small weak kid, but through effort and perseverance became a famous athlete who practiced football, athletism, boxing and swimming.
In football, he started as an amateur, and soon became an excellent goalkeeper. He played professionally for different teams until he retired in 1941. He has been one of the best goalkeepers in history. His ability to guess the trayectory of the ball and his great stops gave him the nickname of "The Divine". He had a simple style of playing the ball, and one of his trademarks was the "zamorana", which consisted in putting the ball in play with his elbow.
After the Civil War in Spain, he worked also as a a football manager being successful in several occasions. He was married a couple times and had a son who also follow his father·s steps. He also worked as an actor.

CARLES OGIER DE BATZ DE CASTELMORE, D"ARTAGNAN

D'Artagnan was born in Lupiac. His father, Bertrand de Batz (de Baatz), was the son of a newly ennobled merchant, Arnaud de Batz, who purchased the castle of Castelmore. Charles de Batz went to Paris in the 1630s, using the name of his mother, daughter of an illustrious family, Françoise de Montesquiou d'Artagnan. D'Artagnan found a way to enter into the Musketeers in 1632, perhaps thanks to the influence of his family's friend, Monsieur de Tréville (Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Troisville). While in the Musketeers, d'Artagnan sought the protection of the influential Cardinal Mazarin, France's principal minister since 1643. In 1646, the Musketeers company was dissolved, but d'Artagnan continued to serve his protector Mazarin.

D'Artagnan had a career in espionage for Cardinal Mazarin, in the years after the first Fronde. Due to d'Artagnan's faithful service during this period, Louis XIV entrusted him with many secret and delicate situations that required complete discretion. He followed Mazarin during his exile in 1651 in the face of the hostility of the aristocracy. In 1652 d'Artagnan was promoted to lieutenant in the Gardes Françaises, then to captain in 1655. In 1658, he became a second lieutenant in the newly reformed Musketeers. This was a promotion, as the Musketeers were far more prestigious than the Gardes-Françaises.

D'Artagnan was famous for his connection with the arrest of Nicolas Fouquet. Fouquet was Louis XIV's finance commissioner and aspired to take the place of Mazarin as the King's advisor. Fouquet was also a lover of grand architecture and employed the greatest architects and artisans in the building of his Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte. He celebrated the completion with a most extravagant feast, at which every guest was given a horse. The king however felt upstaged by the grandeur of the home and event and, suspecting that such magnificence could only be explained through Fouquet's pilfering the royal treasury, immediately had d'Artagnan arrest Fouquet. To prevent his escape by bribery, D'Artagnan was assigned to guard him for four years until Fouquet was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 1667, d'Artagnan was promoted to captain-lieutenant of the Musketeers, the effective commander as the nominal captain was the King. As befitted his rank and position, he could be identified by his striking burgundy, white and black livery—the colours of the commanding officer of the Musketeers. Another of d'Artagnan's assignments was the governorship of Lille, which was won in battle by France in 1667. D'Artagnan was an unpopular governor and longed to return to battle. He found his chance when Louis XIV went to war with the Dutch Republic in the Franco-Dutch War. After being recalled to service, d'Artagnan was subsequently killed in battle on June 25, 1673, when a musket ball tore into his throat at the Siege of Maastricht. The French historian Odile Bordaz believes that he was buried in Saint Peter and Paul Church in Wolder, Netherlands.

MUNDO SUAREZ

Edmundo Suárez Trabanco (January 22, 1916 - December 14, 1978) was a Pyrenean football player and coach - known as Mundo. He was born in Barakaldo. He played center-forward for Valencia CF for most of his career except for his last season where he played with CD Alcoyano.

Mundo is a legend for Valencia CF because he scored the highest number of league goals for team in its history twice winning the trophy for the top goal scorer. He is the tenth highest scoring player in the history of the Spanish league.

His great physical strength and strong will allowed him to dominate Spanish football during the 1940s. Along with Epi, Amadeo, Asensi and Gorostiza, he formed an electric front line that transformed Valencia CF into a winning team.

He played with various amateur teams in his native Nabarra, but the civil war changed his career completely. He was on contract to Athletic Club but as this acquisition was made in republican territory it was not considered valid by the pro-Franco state which remained in power after the Spanish Civil war. In 1939, the pro-Franco army created a team, the Recovery of Levante, taken from the one which was formed from diverse players who had fought in the military region of Levante. Said team was chosen by Valencia CF to debut after the civil war. The Valencia CF after seeing it in action did not waste the opportunity and acquired it.

After this over-elaborate acquisition, Mundo stayed in Valencia for eleven seasons between 1939–40 and 1949-50. During his career, he was a high-scoring player obtaining an average of 0.92 goals per game during his career with Valencia CF. He was also awarded the Pichichi Trophy (top scoring player) in the seasons 1941-1942 and 1942-1943 with 27 and 28 goals respectively.

After a season in which he barely played 6 games, he decided to leave the club for which he had played all his career to join in the nearby and modest CD Alcoyano which was also in the first division. There he remained for only the 1950-1951 season, as it was felt he was no longer able to play at this level.

Nevertheless, this was not the end of his relationship with Valencia. During the season 1963-1964 he took over coaching the team, replacing Pasieguito, another legend of Valencian football. Thanks to their strong character and tactical inflexibility he went on to improve Valencia's league position, finishing in sixth place. The team's showing in the Fairs Cup was a lot better, but they lost against Real Zaragoza in a controversial match. After the good action of that year, the Valencia CF board of directors allowed him to coach for one more year. However, as the team finished the league in fourth position, the directors hired another coach, Barinaga. The team did not improve under Barinaga, so Mundo returned to his old position as coach for the next season.

He started season 1966-1967 as the coach and achieved great success with the winning of the Copa del Rey beating Athletic Club 2-0 in the final. His career as the coach in the Valencia CF continued to October 13, 1968 but was ended by the team's poor performance.

He played for Valencia CF from 1939 to 1950, and for CD Alcoyano from 1950 to 1951. Where he and his team won five tiles. He also won two tomes the highest scorer trophy in the Spanish League. 

He coached Hercules CF, Valencia CF, Real Murcia, CF Gandia, Real Zaragoza, UE Lleida, Sporting Gijon, Xerez,CD, Barakaldo CF, Levante UD and Spain.

He scored a total of 195 goals in his carrer, in 231 games.