Mundo (soccer player)

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Mundo
Personnel
Surname Edmundo Suárez Trabanco
birthday January 22, 1916
place of birth Barakaldo ,  Spain
date of death December 14, 1978
Place of death Spain
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1928-1935 Kakaleka
Lejona
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1935-1936 Athletic Bilbao 0 00(0)
1939-1950 Valencia CF 210 (186)
1950-1951 CD Alcoyano 21 00(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1941-1942 Spain 3 00(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Mundo , real name Edmundo Suárez Trabanco (born January 22, 1916 in Barakaldo , † December 14, 1978 ), was a Spanish football player ( striker ).

He mainly played for Valencia CF and is still the club-internal player who scored the most goals in the Primera División . In the list of the best scorer ever in the history of the league, he ranks tenth.

Club career

Mundo came from the Basque Country , and in his youth he played for various smaller clubs. At 19, he finally went to the great Basque club Athletic Bilbao . There he was not used in the 1935/36 season in which the Athletic Champion was won.

He probably would have continued to play at Athletic and continued to play on the team, but then in July 1936 the Spanish Civil War broke out. He tried as best he could to avoid the war, initially playing in Logroño . When the city fell to the coup plotters, he was drawn to the vicinity of Valencia. He stayed here until the end of the war.

After the civil war, all clubs tried to get back to normal as quickly as possible. The Valencia became aware of Mundo and signed him without much resistance from Bilbao. The club would be his home for the next eleven years. In the first season after the war in 1939/40, he showed his potential when he scored 14 goals. Because his team was only eighth in the end (out of twelve clubs), the team would certainly have been relegated without him.

But after this weak start, the club's heyday began; Spanish football of the 1940s was shaped by the Valencians. Already in the following season there were signs of high flying when third place in the final ranking was achieved. Mundo finished second on the top scorer list despite scoring a whopping 21 goals in 22 games. In 1941/42 he was finally the top scorer (27 goals in 25 games). In addition, Valencia became champions, with a superior seven points advantage and 85 goals in 26 games. Mundo repeated the rate of scoring more goals than having played games the following year, but his club fell to seventh place.

Also in 1943/44 he scored more goals than games and was top scorer for the second (and last) time. Valencia won the second championship, the third followed in 1946/47. In the following two seasons two runner-up championships jumped out.

In the Copa del Rey , Valencia often played very inconsistently. In 1941 they won the cup , Mundo scored two goals in the 3-1 win in the final against Espanyol Barcelona . In the years 1944–46 it was bewitched for Valencia and Mundo: In these three seasons in a row, the team managed the "feat" that it always lost the cup final. Towards the end of his time in Valencia, however, in 1949, he achieved the second cup triumph in which Mundo was still on the field.

The striker was always the top scorer of his team until 1948 and always ended up well ahead in the fight for the Pichichi title . In 1949/50 he only played six times and realized that he would have no prospects in Valencia at 34 years of age. In the meantime a new generation of players had arrived and the old guard was slowly leaving.

Mundo went to CD Alcoyano for one season in the 1950/51 season . In this, to this day, the club's last season in the top division, Mundo once again performed well, scoring 9 goals in 21 games and becoming the team's top scorer. But he couldn't gloss over Alcoyano's sometimes disastrous achievements, u. a. lost 10 away games in a row. With a difference of seven goals, Alcoyano went down at Real Madrid , Sevilla FC and Athletic Bilbao . A total of 16 points were missing in the end for the first non-relegation place. Mundo resigned for good.

National team career

His career in the national team was comparatively short: He came on three missions, spread over just four months. The first time he was on the field for Spain on December 28, 1941 against Switzerland . The Iberians won 3-2, Mundo scored two goals and was probably called back to the team in March 1942 against France . He scored again, Spain won 4-0.

The third game was his last in the national dress: Spain played against Germany in the Berlin Olympic Stadium . Mundo didn't score, the final score was 1: 1. Allegedly, however, the political leaders of the two states had previously spoken out in favor of a draw in order not to discourage the people in the countries during this phase, when Germany was in the middle of a war and Spain was economically weak.

For a player of Mundo's level, it is surprising that he only played three games. But the next game, to which he was not called up, against Italy ended 0: 4 and Franco suspended the Spanish team for three years in order not to see more such defeats.

Coaching career

In the 1958/59 season he coached Sporting Gijón , but was on leave after 23 of 30 game days, Sporting rose at the end. In the next season he coached Real Zaragoza for 15 games . The team was in serious difficulties relegation and was in 14th place. Mundo was able to prevent relegation, Saragossa was in 11th place at the end of the season, but Mundo left the club immediately.

When "his club", Valencia CF , was in a relegation battle in the 1963/64 season, he signed the legend as a coach. It succeeded in sovereign relegation, the season ended in sixth place, and Mundo stayed (with the exception of the 1965/66 season) for the next seasons in Valencia. The following years were also passable, places four, six and four more were achieved.

In 1967 the team made it into the cup final, which they won 2-1 against Athletic Bilbao in Madrid. Mundo also won the cup as a coach.

Surprisingly, he was dismissed after only five games in the 1968/69 season. He ended his coaching career and retired.

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personal data
SURNAME Mundo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suárez Trabanco, Edmundo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Barakaldo , Spain
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1978