Rodolfo Bodipo

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Bodipo and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.
Rodolfo Bodipo
Personal information
Full nameRodolfo Bodipo Díaz
Date of birth25 October 1977
Place of birthDos Hermanas, Spain
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing positionStriker
Youth career
Dos Hermanas
Sevilla
CD Montequinto
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1995–1996Ángulo CF
1996–1997UA Ceutí
1997–1998Albacete B
1997–1998→ Hellín (loan)?(6)
1998Isla Cristina9(2)
1998–2001Recreativo96(21)
2001–2004Racing Santander81(27)
2004–2006Alavés74(23)
2006–2013Deportivo La Coruña90(12)
2010→ Vaslui (loan)3(0)
2010–2011→ Elche (loan)24(2)
2013Xerez10(2)
National team
2003–2013Equatorial Guinea[1]13(6)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Rodolfo Bodipo Díaz (born 25 October 1977) is a Equatoguinean retired footballer who played as a striker.

He appeared in 158 games in La Liga over the course of eight seasons, scoring 32 goals in representation of Racing de Santander, Alavés and Deportivo. He added 200/53 in Segunda División, and spent almost his entire professional career in Spain.

Club career

Bodipo was born in the Spanish city of Dos Hermanas, Seville in a biracial background, his father being Equatoguinean and his mother Spanish. After having played youth football with three clubs, including hometown's Dos Hermanas CF[2] and Sevilla FC,[3] and spending his first three 1/2 seasons in amateur football,[4][5][6] he represented several teams in the country, with moderate scoring success: Recreativo de Huelva (three second division seasons), Racing de Santander and Deportivo Alavés (in both cases, helping his side achieve La Liga promotion); with the latter, he had his best statistical year in the 2004–05 campaign, as he netted 16 times – fifth in the league – in 39 games, with the Basque ranking third.

For 2006–07 Bodipo joined Deportivo de La Coruña,[7] where was usually fourth-choice during his first two campaigns, although he spent his first down due to a serious anterior cruciate ligament injury.[8] However, during 2008–09, he managed to score three goals for Depor in two weeks starting in December 2008, including one against AS Nancy in the UEFA Cup group stage 1–0 home win,[9] and another at Getafe CF in a 2–1 success, while also gaining a penalty kick which was converted by Sergio.[10]

After an unassuming 2009–10 season – 15 matches, none complete, no goals – Bodipo, aged nearly 33, was loaned for one year to Liga I side FC Vaslui, in Romania. Just one month after, however, he rescinded his contract and returned to Spain,[11] being sparingly used by Elche CF in the second level.

International career

Bodipo opted to represent Equatorial Guinea through parentage, as Javier Balboa and Benjamín. His first two caps, aged 26, came against Togo, playing in both legs of the first round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

In November 2013 Bodipo was summoned for his last international, a friendly with the national team of his country of birth, Spain, to be played on the 16th.[12] He featured the last five minutes of the 1–2 loss in Malabo.[13]

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 29 March 2006 Estadio Internacional, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea  Benin
1–0
2–0
 Friendly
2 3 September 2006 Estadio Internacional, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea  Liberia
2–1
2–1
 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
3 21 November 2007 Nuevo Estadio, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea  Niger
1–1
1–1
 Friendly
4 6 September 2008 National Stadium, Freetown, Sierra Leone  Sierra Leone
1–2
1–2
 2010 World Cup qualification

References

  1. ↑ Minimal amount of matches played
  2. ↑ Entrevistas (Interviews); Juventudes Verdiblancas (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Bodipo, un ariete peleón Rey Mago en Huelva y que ahora entrena sin ficha con el Racing de Ferrol (Bodipo, Magi-like fighting striker in Huelva now on trial with Racing de Ferrol); Huelva24, 28 February 2013 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Lucentino y Melilla entran en los grupos X y IX de Tercera (Lucentino and Melilla join groups X and IX in Tercera); ABC de Sevilla, 8 September 1996 (Spanish)
  5. ↑ El espíritu de Hellín (The spirit of Hellín); Diario Sur, 12 April 2007 (Spanish)
  6. ↑ Goleadores Hellín Deportivo – Desde 1994/95 a 2001/02 (Hellín Deportivo top scorers – From 1994/95 to 2001/02); Futbol Plus, 20 November 2010 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ Two more signings with at Deportivo; UEFA.com, 28 June 2006
  8. ↑ Depor new boy Bodipo breaks down; UEFA.com, 21 September 2006
  9. ↑ Bodipo strikes to oust Nancy; UEFA.com, 17 December 2008
  10. ↑ Getafe 1–2 Deportivo La Coruña; ESPN Soccernet, 4 January 2009
  11. ↑ Rodolfo Bodipo abandona Rumanía (Rodolfo Bodipo leaves Rumanía), El Depor, 23 August 2010 (Spanish)
  12. ↑ "Bodipo, será homenajeado frente a España" [Bodipo, will be honored against Spain] (in Spanish). Federación Ecuatoguineana de Fútbol. 9 November 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  13. ↑ "De pasear la estrella a ver las estrellas" [From parading star to seeing stars] (in Spanish). Marca. 17 November 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.

External links