Julián Retegi
Julián Retegui Barbería, also know as Retegi II (born in Erasun, Navarre, Spain on October 10, 1954) is an ex-player of Basque pelota.
Nephew of Juan Ignacio Retegi (another pelotari who won the pelota championship six times, usually know as Retegi I), he started to get interested in the Basque pelota when he was a child. He worked as an stonecutter and in the industry of the wood. In 1974 he started his professional carrier as a pelotari in the Cinema fronton of Zarauz (Gipuzkoa), having as a partner another pelotari, Juaristi.
He has been the pelotari who has won more times the Basque championship playing alone. Eleven times: Every year from 1980 to 1988 and in 1990 and 1993. In 1997 he won his las prize. Since then, due to his regular lesions, he didn't won more prizes. He played his last match in 2001, in the Adarraga Fronton, Logroño.
For some years now he has been working in Asegarce, the company which Karlos Arguiñano is partner of.