Roberto Santamaría Calavia
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Roberto Santamaría Calavia | ||
| Date of birth | 12 March 1962 | ||
| Place of birth | Pamplona, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Osasuna | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1981–1985 | Osasuna B | ||
| 1985–1995 | Osasuna | 272 | (0) |
| 1985–1986 | → Lleida (loan) | 29 | (0) |
| 1995–1997 | Málaga | 33 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Roberto Santamaría Calavia (born 12 March 1962 in Pamplona, Navarre), simply known as Roberto, is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Football career
Roberto played 12 professional years at local CA Osasuna, being the Navarrese undisputed starter in eight of those. In the 1986–87 campaign he contributed with 20 games, but the club barely avoided La Liga relegation.
In 1990–91, as Osasuna finished a best-ever fourth place in the top division, Roberto played 3,191 minutes in 36 matches. Two seasons later he did not concede one single goal for 411 minutes, which stood in the club's record books for more than 20 years.
However, the emergence of 19-year-old Javier López Vallejo, also groomed at Osasuna, prompted his exit in 1995 at the age of 33, to third level's Málaga CF, and he closed out his career after two more years. He then returned to his first club, acting as goalkeeper coach for both the first and second teams.
Personal
Roberto's nephew, Roberto Santamaría Ciprián, was also a footballer and a goalkeeper. He too represented Osasuna (youth level and reserve team) and Málaga.