José Santamaría

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José Emilio Santamaría
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Personal information
Full name José Emilio Santamaría Iglesias
Date of birth July 31, 1929 (1929-07-31) (age 78)
Place of birth    Montevideo, Uruguay
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club retired
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1948-1957
1957-1966		 Nacional de Montevideo
Real Madrid		  ? (?)
226 (2)   
National team2
1952-1957
1958-1962		 Uruguay
Spain		 20 (0)
16 (0)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 10 June, 2007.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 10 April 2007.
* Appearances (Goals)

José Emilio Santamaría Iglesias (born July 31, 1929) is an Spanish-Uruguayan former football player and coach. He is regarded by many as one of the all-time greatest central defenders. A strong, uncompromising player, he is one of the relatively few players to star for two national football teams.

[edit] Career history

Santamaría played in defence for Nacional de Montevideo and was first called up to play for the Uruguay national team for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil. He was selected to fill an inside-forward slot in the squad, but his club refused to let him join the squad on the grounds that he was a defender. Hence he missed Uruguay's second World Cup victory. Four years later though, he was an integral part of the Uruguay team at the World Cup finals in Switzerland. Convincing wins over Scotland, Czechoslovakia and England were followed by semi-final defeat by Hungary and a 3-1 loss to Austria in the third-place play off match.

Santamaría's performance in the World Cup had been enough to attract the attention of Real Madrid, to whom he transferred in 1957. Real were dominating European football at the time, and Santamaria won three consecutive European Cup titles and the World Club Cup. He was also selected for the Spanish national team, and went on to play for them in the 1962 World Cup. This time Santamaria was to be less successful. In fact, he was dropped for Spain's final group match against Brazil, which they lost 2-1 and thus went out of the tournament.

Later, Santamaría managed hosts Spain at the 1982 World Cup where they exited in the second round.

[edit] Honours

With Nacional de Montevideo

  • League Championship: 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957

With Real Madrid

With Uruguay

  • 20 caps from 1952-57

With Spain

  • 16 caps from 1958-62


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Uruguay squad - 1954 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place
1 Máspoli • 2 Santamaría • 3 Martínez • 4 Rodríguez Andrade • 5 Varela • 6 Leopardi • 7 Abbadie • 8 Hohberg • 9 Míguez • 10 Schiaffino • 11 Borges • 12 Maceiras • 13 Davoine • 14 Tejera • 15 Rivera • 16 Carballo • 17 Cruz • 18 Souto • 19 Ambrois • 20 Méndez • 21 Pérez • 22 Castro • Coach: López
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Spain squad - 1962 FIFA World Cup
1 Araquistáin • 2 Sadurní • 3 Carmelo • 4 Collar • 5 del Sol • 6 Di Stéfano • 7 Echeberría • 8 Garay • 9 Gento • 10 Gracia • 11 Rivilla • 12 Peiró • 13 Pachín • 14 Puskás • 15 Eulogio • 16 Reija • 17 Rodri • 18 Adelardo • 19 Santamaría • 20 Segarra • 21 Suárez • 22 Vergés • Coach: Herrera
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Spain squad - 1982 FIFA World Cup
1 Arconada • 2 Camacho • 3 Gordillo • 4 Alonso • 5 Tendillo • 6 Alexanko • 7 Juanito • 8 Joaquín • 9 Satrústegui • 10 Zamora • 11 López Ufarte • 12 Urquiaga • 13 Jiménez • 14 Maceda • 15 Saura • 16 Sánchez • 17 Gallego • 18 Uralde • 19 Santillana • 20 Quini • 21 Urruti • 22 Miguel Ángel • Coach: Santamaría
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RCD Espanyol – Managers

Garry (1922–24) • Sanz (1924–26) • Greenwell (1927–29) • Caicedo (1930–33) • Trabal (1933–35) • Caicedo (1935–1943) • Zamora (1943) • Bosch (1943–44) • Albéniz (1944–46) • Bosch (1946) • Planas (1946–47) • Espada (1947–49) • Caicedo (1949–50) • Nogués (1950–52) • Scopelli (1952–55) • Bravo (1955) • Zamora (1955–57) • Berkessy (1957–58) • Domingo (1958–59) • Barrios (1959–60) • Pons (1960–61) • Zamora (1961) • Saso (1961–62) • Zamora (1962) • Herrera (1962–63) • Scopelli (1963–64) • Kubala (1964–65) • Argila (1965–66) • Di Stéfano (1966) • Kálmár (1966–69) • Argilés (1969) • Riera (1969–70) • Iriondo (1970) • Daučík (1970–71) • Santamaría (1971–78) • Herrera (1978) • Irulegui (1978–79) • Miera (1979–80) • Maguregui (1980–83) • Pavić (1983–84) • Azkargorta (1984–86) • Clemente (1986–89) • Joanet (1989–90) • Aragonés (1990–91) • Petrović (1991–92) • Clemente (1992) • Díaz Novoa (1992–93) • Camacho (1993–96) • Carcelén (1996–97) • Flores (1997) • Camacho (1997–98) • Bielsa (1998–99) • Brindisi (1999–2000) • Flores (2000–02) • Moya (2002) • Clemente (2002–04) • Fernández (2004) • Lotina (2004–06) • Valverde (2006–08)