The Atlético de Madrid left-back could not prevent the German striker from attacking who ended up scoring in a one-on-one with Pozas Atlético's starting goalkeeper in the - season. The game was tied at two points and the public in need of a scapegoat began to shout: useless! Bald! "Rojooo!" they shouted from somewhere in the stands. Russian red! Russian red! Thousands of throats chanted. Agustín Gómez Pagoda the left defender at years old had worn the Colchonera jersey that day for the first time and would never do so again.
No one could take away from him having been one of the international stars of the USSR nor having been captain of the Moscow Torpedo which he had joined in and played for several seasons until ; nor would they take away from him having won the CXB Directory honor division cup with that team; nor being a member of the Soviet soccer team at the Helsinki Olympics in . agustin gomez Agustín Gómez Pagoda Agustín Gómez had returned to Spain on one of the expeditions of Spanish exiles from the USSR. Through the International Red Cross an agreement had been fostered between the governments of Spain and the Soviet government so that those who wished to return would return. In total between and some two thousand six hundred returned.
Some were combatants from the civil war who after the fall of the Republic took refuge in the USSR. Others were part of the three thousand children especially Basques and Asturians that the government of the Republic sent to the USSR to keep them away from war and hunger. Agustín was one of them one of the oldest when he left his homeland. He was born in Rentería on November and left Euskadi at the age of fifteen. Already in his town he stood out as a footballer and shortly after arriving in the USSR they saw his sporting and intellectual conditions and he was sent to the Moscow Technical University where he graduated in Engineering and also played and was the undisputed leader of the University team.
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