Florentino Lopez

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Florentino Lopez
Personnel
Surname Florentino López López
birthday August 24, 1934
place of birth Navalmoral de la Mata , Caceres ,  Spain
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
Deportivo España de Torreón
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1952-1954 Club León
1952-1954 →  CD Irapuato  (loan)
1954-1959 Valencia CF
1954-1955 → CD Mestalla (loan)
1959-1960 real Madrid
1959-1960 → Plus Ultra (loan)
1960-1970 Deportivo Toluca
1 Only league games are given.

Florentino López (born August 24, 1934 in Navalmoral de la Mata , Cáceres ) is a former Spanish football player on the position of goalkeeper .

Life

Due to the civil war that broke out in Spain , his parents left their homeland together with Florentino and his two older brothers in 1939 and settled in Mexico . The family initially lived in Mexico City and later moved to the Comarca Lagunera in the north of the country. There, Florentino, together with other Spanish youths, founded a football team called Deportivo España , which took part in the top regional division of the state of Coahuila and played its home games in front of an average of three thousand spectators at the Estadio San Isidro in Torreón . At a national tournament of national teams from various states, Florentino López was appointed to the Selección de la Laguna , which represented the state of Coahuila.

In 1952, the national team played a friendly against León FC , which won the Mexican championship that same year. His coach Antonio López Herranz was so enthusiastic about the performance of Florentino López that he invited him to a test training and then signed him. Since López had no chance to displace the national goalkeeper Antonio Carbajal , who was under contract with León , he was loaned to the CD Irapuato to collect match practice in the second division . At the end of the 1953/54 season, the Freseros succeeded in promotion to the first division , in which López only guarded the goal for four games because his father preferred to see him play in his home country. He completed a trial at Real Madrid , but they were not ready to pay the transfer fee required by León FC.

Finally, Valencia FC signed López and initially let him play on loan from their neighbor CD Mestalla . After completing his military service, Valencia brought the goalkeeper into the squad of the first team, where he came to two appearances in the Primera División . On his debut on September 15, 1957 at UD Las Palmas, he conceded five goals, some of which seemed avoidable. For his second and last use in a league game for Valencia CF he came on November 17, 1957 in the 2: 3 defeat against Celta Vigo .

In 1959 he was still obliged by the Royal , but not included in the squad of the first team, but in its reserve team Plus Ultra .

In 1960, the Mexican club Deportivo Toluca acquired FC Florentino López, who spent the entire 1960s there and ended his active career in 1970. With the Diablos Rojos , López won the Mexican Championship and the Supercup twice and the CONCACAF Champions' Cup once .

successes

  • Mexican champion: 1967 and 1968
  • Mexican Supercup: 1967 and 1968
  • CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 1968
  • Mexican second division champions: 1954

References and comments

  1. ↑ According to information from Ciberche.net. Carlos Calderón gives his year of birth as 1935.
  2. ↑ Real Madrid squad 1959/60 at BD Fútbol

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personal data
SURNAME López, Florentino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES López López, Florentino (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Navalmoral de la Mata , Caceres , Spain