thereaderwiki.com

Manuel Badenes

  • ️Wed Oct 31 1928

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Badenes and the second or maternal family name is Calduch.

Manuel Badenes
Personal information
Full name Manuel Badenes Calduch
Date of birth (1928-10-31)31 October 1928
Place of birth Castellón, Spain
Date of death 26 November 2007(2007-11-26) (aged 79)
Place of death Valencia, Spain
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Jari Jauja
Peña Ribalta
1944–1946 Castellón
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1946–1947 Castellón 11 (4)
1947–1950 Barcelona 14 (6)
1949–1950 → Zaragoza (loan) 24 (23)
1950–1956 Valencia 97 (90)
1956–1958 Valladolid 59 (35)
1958–1960 Sporting Gijón 21 (4)
1960–1961 Castellón 24 (11)
1961–1962 Oliva
Total 226 (173)
International career
1955 Spain B 2 (8)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Manuel Badenes Calduch (31 October 1928 – 26 November 2007) was a Spanish footballer, who played as a forward for clubs such as FC Barcelona and Valencia CF.

Badenes started his career at CD Castellón. His first season at the club saw him score four goals in ten games which resulted in a move to Barcelona. He spent two season at the club, winning two La Liga titles before moving to Valencia. He scored 90 goals in 97 games at Valencia before moving to Real Valladolid, where he won the Pichichi trophy awarded to the top scorer in La Liga in 1958.

Badenes is the all-time top goal scorer of Spain B with 8 goals, and remarkably, he managed to achieve this feat having only two appearances for the team (a ratio of four goals per game), both at the 1953–58 Mediterranean Cup, netting four past Greece and four again against Egypt, to be crowned the tournament's top goal scorer.[1] However, despite his prolificness for the B team, he never managed to reach the main team.

Spain B score listed first, score column indicates score after each Badenes goal.
FC Barcelona
Valencia CF
Spain B
Real Valladolid
  1. ^ a b "Badenes". bdfutbol.com. Retrieved 1 June 2022.