Enrique Mateos

Enrique Mateos
Personal information
Full name	Enrique Mateos Mancebo
Date of birth	15 July 1934
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Date of death	6 July 2001 (aged 66)
Place of death	Seville, Spain
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Boetticher y Navarro
	Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years	Team
1952–1953	Plus Ultra
1953–1961	Real Madrid
1961–1964	Sevilla
1964–1965	Recreativo
1965	Betis
1965	Recreativo
1965–1966	Betis
1966–1967	Gimnástica
1968	Cleveland Stokers
1969	East London Celtic
1970–1971	Toluca Santander
Total
International career
1957–1960	Spain B
1957–1961	Spain
Managerial career
?–?	Fuencarral
1975–1976	Pegaso
1976–1977	Cádiz
1978	Deportivo La Coruña
1982–1983	Fuengirola
1984–1985	Orihuela
1985	Linares
1987–1988	Ronda
1988	Fuengirola
1992	Orihuela
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Enrique Mateos Mancebo (15 July 1934 – 6 July 2001) was a Spanish footballer who played as a striker.

He amassed La Liga totals of 123 games and 48 goals over the course of 13 seasons, representing in the competition Real Madrid, Sevilla and Betis.

Club career

Born in Madrid, Mateos finished his graduation at local and national powerhouse Real Madrid. He was mainly a reserve player during his eight-year spell with the first team, which won 13 major titles during that timeframe; his best output came during the 1956–57 season, when he scored a career-best 14 goals in 21 games en route to the La Liga championship; additionally, he netted nine times in 16 appearances combined in the European Cup, winning the tournament on four occasions.^[1]^[2]

Mateos left the Merengues in the 1961 summer, with official totals of 93 matches and 50 goals.^[2] He subsequently represented, in his country, Sevilla FC, Recreativo de Huelva, Real Betis (two spells with both clubs) and Gimnástica de Torrelavega, suffering a serious injury whilst at the service of the first from which he never fully recovered; until his retirement at the age of 37, he also played for the Cleveland Stokers in the North American Soccer League^[3] and East London Celtic in South Africa.

Subsequently, Mateos worked as a manager for roughly twenty years. His biggest achievement at the professional level consisted of leading Cádiz CF to its first-ever promotion to the top flight in 1977, being sacked early into the following campaign as the Andalusians were eventually relegated back.^[4]

International career

Mateos earned eight caps for the Spain football team, during four years. He scored in his debut on 31 March 1957, a 5–0 friendly win in Belgium.^[5]

Career statistics


#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	31 March 1957	Heysel, Brussels, Belgium	Belgium	0–3	0–5	Friendly
2.	16 May 1957	Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain	Scotland	1–0	4–1	1958 World Cup qualification
3.	22 November 1959	Mestalla, Valencia, Spain	Austria	6–2	6–3	Friendly

Death

Mateos died in Seville on 6 July 2001, two weeks shy of his 67th birthday.^[6]

Honours

Real Madrid

La Liga: 1953–54, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1960–61
European Cup: 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60
Latin Cup: 1955, 1957

References

^ "Real Madrid CF – All the players in European Cups". RSSSF. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Un histórico de la época de oro" [An historical from the golden days] (in Spanish). Real Madrid C.F. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
^ "NASL-". www.nasljerseys.com. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^ "Enrique Mateos" (in Spanish). Cadistas 1910. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
^ "Bélgica, 0 – España 5" [Belgium, 0 – Spain 5]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 1 April 1957. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
^ "Enrique Mateos, ex jugador del Real Madrid" [Enrique Mateos, former Real Madrid player]. El País (in Spanish). 10 July 2001. Retrieved 23 February 2014.