Juanito

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Juanito
Personnel
Surname Juan Gómez González
birthday November 10, 1954
place of birth FuengirolaSpain
date of death April 2, 1992
Place of death Calzada de Oropesa,  Spain
position Winger
Juniors
Years station
until 1972 Fuengirola FC
1972-1974 Atlético Madrid
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1974-1977 FC Burgos 104 (24)
1977-1987 real Madrid 284 (85)
1987-1989 CD Málaga 71 (15)
1991 UD Fuengirola
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1976-1982 Spain 34 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1991-1992 CP Mérida
1 Only league games are given.
Fan choreography in the Bernabéu Stadium on the 15th anniversary of death

Juanito , real name Juan Gómez González (born November 10, 1954 in Fuengirola , † April 2, 1992 in La Calzada de Oropesa), was a Spanish football player .

Career

Juanito started his career in his hometown with FC Fuengirola. Atlético Madrid's attention was drawn to the winger early on , and so he joined the Madrid youth team in the summer of 1972. Serious injuries, etc. a. a shin fracture prevented him from breaking through, and so he moved in 1974 to the then second division FC Burgos . With the Castilians, he made it to the Primera División in 1976 and was voted the best player in the league by the football magazine Don Balón in his first season .

In the summer of 1977 Real Madrid signed him for 27 million pesetas . He experienced his greatest time as a footballer with the capital city, winning five championship titles, two Spanish cups and two UEFA Cup victories. In the 1983/84 season he was also top scorer in the Spanish Primera División. Furthermore, he played with his club two finals in European competitions, the European Cup champions in 1980/81 they lost the Liverpool , the 1982-83 European Cup Winners' Cup they lost against FC Aberdeen .

The fast, cold-blooded and agile winger rose to become an idol for Madrid fans, but his character also led to various low points in his career. In 1978 he was banned from all European competitions for two years because of an assault against referee Adolf Prokop , in 1986 he was spit on his former teammate Uli Stielike in a UEFA Cup match and in 1987 he was kicked by the am Lothar Matthäus lying on the ground , which led to a five-year ban for all European competitions.

After a total of ten years at Real Madrid, he moved to CD Málaga in 1987, when he was 32 , for which he played two seasons. After his resignation, he moved to the coaching staff of the Andalusians, and after a brief comeback as a player at UD Fuengirola, he took over as coach at CP Mérida in 1991 .

On April 2, 1992, Juanito died in a car accident when he returned from Madrid after a UEFA Cup match between his former team Real Madrid and Torino Calcio .

The spirit of Juanito

In addition to his spectacular style of play, the right offensive player was known above all for his explosive character, but also for his unconditional will to win. Even today, the Madrid fans, with a seemingly hopeless deficit after the first leg, in reference to the legendary European Cup catch-up chases in Juanito's time, demand the Espíritu de Juanito ("Spirit of Juanito") from the team: unconditional commitment to the end.

In addition, in the seventh minute (in memory of his jersey number seven) the audience sang the sentence “Illa, illa, illa, Juanito maravilla, se ve, se siente, Juanito está presente” , which means something like in German : "Illa, illa, illa, Juanito the miracle, you can see it, you can feel it, Juanito is present".

Spain's press also uses the spirit of the football legend and likes to headline headlines with the words: “90 minuti en el Bernabéu son molto longos” , a mishmash of Spanish and Italian on the occasion of the 1985/86 UEFA Cup semi-final second leg against Inter Milan , which means something like "90 minutes in the Bernabéu is very long." (However, the entry into the final was only decided in extra time .)

National team

Juanito was part of the Spanish squad for the 1976 Olympic Games , but his team was eliminated in the preliminary round. For the senior national team he played 34 times and took part in the World Championships in Argentina in 1978 and in Spain in 1982 . He was also part of the squad at the 1980 European Football Championship in Italy.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. Real conjures up the spirit of Juanitos , T-Online.de, April 24, 2012
  2. Javier Cáceres: Back in the circus. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 25, 2012, p. 96.