José Santamaría

José Santamaría
José Santamaría, 1976
Personnel
Surname	José Emilio Santamaría
birthday	July 31, 1929
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
size	178 cm
position	Libero
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1948-1957	Nacional Montevideo
1957-1966	real Madrid	226 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1952-1957	Uruguay	20 (0)
1958–1962	Spain	16 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1966-1968	Real Madrid (Assistant)
1968-1971	Spain (Juniors)
1971-1977	Espanyol Barcelona
1977-1980	Spain (assistant)
1980-1982	Spain
1 Only league games are given.

José Santamaría (front row, second from right)

José Emilio Santamaría (born July 31, 1929 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan - Spanish soccer player and soccer coach .

career

Player in Uruguay until 1957

The son of Spanish parents - the father was a nurse and later a bank clerk - Jose Emilio Santamaria was born in Uruguay's capital Montevideo in 1929. In the mid-1940s he joined - as a striker - Nacional Montevideo . The athletic and headed player developed into one of the best middle runners in the world in the 1950s. With Nacional he won the championship five times in the Primera División in 1950 , 1952 , 1955 , 1956 and 1957 and took part with the national team as defending champion in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. He made his debut in the national team on April 6, 1952 in the 6-1 win over Panama at the Pan American Championships in Santiago de Chile . In the tournament days in Switzerland he came with the Celeste after successes in Group 3 over Czechoslovakia (2-0) and Scotland (7-0) and the quarter-final with 4-2 goals against England to the semi-finals against the tournament favorites Hungary . After a big fight, the "Himmelblauen" lost on June 30th in Lausanne with 2: 4 goals in extra time after two goals from Sándor Kocsis and were then defeated on July 3 in the game for 3rd place in Zurich with 1: 3 goals against Austria. The Nacional defender had shown his skills in all five World Cup games and, like attacker Juan Schiaffino , attracted the attention of the "buyers" from the professional leagues of Italy and Spain. On April 1, 1957, he then completed the game against the Chilean selection at the South American Championships in 1957, his last of 20 international matches in which he could not show a personal goal.

Player in Spain, 1957 to 1966

In 1957 Santamaría moved to Europe and went to Real Madrid . Together with Alfredo Di Stéfano and Ferenc Puskás , he was part of the wonderful Real Madrid team of the 1950s and 1960s and won the European Cup three times in a row with the Madrilenians from 1958 to 1960 . In the Primera División he also won the championship with Real in 1958, 1961 to 1964 and the cup in 1962 . Internationally, the success in the World Cup was added in 1960 . In 1962 - 3: 5 defeat against Benfica Lisbon - and in 1964 - 1: 3 defeat against Internazionale Milan - he was with Real in two finals in the European Cup. When Real was able to win the European Cup again on May 11, 1966 in Brussels in the final against Partizan Belgrade with 2-1 goals , the veteran was no longer on the field. In the first two rounds of the competition - against Feyenoord Rotterdam and FC Kilmarnock - he was brought to two missions by coach Miguel Muñoz . With Santamaria, known as "the wall", the "Royal" had brought a world-class defender to Madrid whose name was inextricably linked to Real's dominance in Spain and Europe.

A year after his arrival in Madrid, the son of Spanish emigrants took on Spanish nationality and made his debut on October 15, 1958 in Madrid in the international match against Northern Ireland in the Spanish national football team . In the two qualifying matches against Wales in April and May 1961 - 2-1 win on April 19 in Cardiff / 1-1 draw on May 18 in Madrid - for the 1962 World Cup in Chile, the Real defender directed the defense in front of goalkeepers Antoni Ramallets from FC Barcelona. At the tournament in Chile he only played the first two group games against Czechoslovakia (0: 1) and against Mexico (1: 0). The 1-0 win over Mexico on June 3 in Vina del Mar was Santamaria's 16th and last international match for his new home country. He was active for Real Madrid until 1966 before he took over the position of assistant coach at his long-term club.

The man from Montevideo ended his career with an international friendly match on September 15, 1966 - charity match - in Madrid in front of 60,000 spectators against Hamburger SV with Uwe Seeler , Willi Schulz and Gert Dörfel .

Trainer

After starting out as a coach at Real, he joined the association in 1968 and was responsible for the Spanish junior and Olympic team until 1971. He was then head coach at Espanol Barcelona from 1971 to 1977 . A second phase followed at the association, from 1977 to 1980 he worked as an assistant to national coach Ladislao Kubala . At the 1982 World Cup in his own country, he was the head coach of the Spanish national team . His team failed in this tournament in the second final round to Germany .

The failure meant the end for Santamaria as national coach after only 24 games. The father of seven then took over the management of a Spanish bakery chain and stayed in football as a magazine columnist.

literature

• Michael Horn: Lexicon of international soccer stars. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-466-9 .
• Jordan / Lenz TARGET DATA (ed.): The 100 of the century. Soccer player. Rowohlt TB-Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16458-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hardy Greens : Football World Cup Encyclopedia. 1930-2006. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-89784-205-X , p. 141.
2. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team at www.rsssf.com , accessed on December 16, 2012
3. ↑ Uruguay - International Results at www.rsssf.com , accessed December 16, 2012
4. ^ Heimann / Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 , page 361
5. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 213.
6. ^ Wieland Becker: The long way to the finals. Pro BUSINESS, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86805-613-6 , page 550
7. ↑ Axel Formeseyn: Our HSV. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-074-9 , page 66
8. ↑ The 100 of the century. Soccer player. Pages 162/163