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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Juan Monjardín Callejón | ||
| Date of birth | (1903-04-24)24 April 1903 | ||
| Place of birth | A Coruña, Spain | ||
| Date of death | 13 November 1950(1950-11-13) (aged 47) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1918–1929 | Madrid FC | 74 | (55) |
| International career | |||
| 1922–1927 | Madrid | ||
| 1923–1924 | Spain | 4 | (3) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Juan Monjardín Callejón (24 April 1903 – 13 November 1950) was a Spanishfootballer who played as a striker.[1] He played forReal Madrid and earned 4 caps for theSpain national football team, competing at the1924 Summer Olympics.[2]
A historical member of Real Madrid in the pre-war period, he was the first footballer to play for Madrid for his entire career, and thus be part of the so-calledone-club men group.
Born inA Coruña, he was transferred toMadrid as a young man, and began practicing football at the Nuestra Señora del Pilar school, which once was one of the city's football cradles, and from there he entered the training categories ofReal Madrid at the end of the 1918-19 season.[3] In that same season, and despite his early age of just 15, he debuted with the first team in aCentral Regional Championship match againstRacing de Madrid, and he quickly became one of the club's benchmarks at the time. He soon evolved from his position of midfielder to forward, which he no longer gave up until the end of his career.[4]
Between the aforementioned Regional Championship and the Copa del Rey, he accumulated a total of 55 goals in 74 games. At the time of his retirement in 1929 (aged 26), he was the second top scorer of the Madrid team, only surpassed by the 68 goals from teammateSantiago Bernabéu.[citation needed] One of the reasons for his early retirement was the arrival of two players who ended up also being attacking and historical references of the club, the ValencianGaspar Rubio andJaime Lazcano fromNavarra, both younger than him, and both ended up breaking his goalscoring record at the club. The same season of his retirement La Liga was inaugurated, and by playing only one game, which was also the only one he played that season, he became one of the 19 club players to appear in that historic first edition.[5]
In 1943, years after his professional retirement, the white club organized a tribute match in his honour between the people of Madrid andBarcelona, ending with a one-goal tie.[6]
Being anMadrid FC player, he was eligible to play for the'Centro' (Madrid area) representative team, and he was part of the squad that participated in two tournaments of thePrince of Asturias Cup, an inter-regional competition, in1922–23 and1923–24, and although the first campaign ended with a shocking quarter-final exit at the hands ofGalicia, in which Monjardin scored Madrid's consolation goal in a 1–4 loss, the second campaign was much better, largely thanks to Monjardin as he scored twice in their 2–1 win over aAndalusia XI in the semi-finals, followed by what appeared to have been anextra-time winner againstCatalonia in thefinal to seal Madrid's second Prince of Asturias Cup title, but a last-minute equaliser fromEmili Sagi-Barba forced a replay in which he scored again, netting twice in the first-half, but his efforts were in vain as Catalonia took the title with a 3–2 win.[7] The silver lining being that with five goals, he was the top goal scorer of the 1923–24 Prince of Asturias Cup, and with a total of six goals in the competition, he is thejoint all-time top goalscorer of the Prince of Asturias Cup along withJosé Luis Zabala andKinké.
He made his debut for theSpain national team inLisbon on 17 December 1922 againstPortugal, scoring the winning goal of a 2-1 win in the 82nd minute. In his next cap againstFrance on 28 January 1923, he scored a brace in a 3-0 win, and coincidentally, the author of the third goal was Zabala. In total, he was capped four times, scoring three goals.[8]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 17 December 1922 | Estádio do Lumiar,Lisbon, Portugal |  Portugal | 2–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 1 | 28 January 1923 | Atotxa Stadium,San Sebastián, Spain |  France | 1–0 | 3–0 | |
| 3 | 3–0 |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 19 November 1922 | Coia,Vigo, Spain |  Galicia | 1–4 | 1922-23 Prince of Asturias Cup quarter-finals | |
| 2 | 11 November 1922 | Estadio Metropolitano,Madrid, Spain |  South | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1923-24 Prince of Asturias Cup semi-finals |
| 3 | 2–0 | |||||
| 4 | 24 February 1924 | San Mamés,Bilbao, Spain |  Catalonia | 4–3 | 4-4 | 1924 Prince of Asturias Cup Final |
| 5 | 26 February 1924 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1924 Prince of Asturias Cup Final Replay | ||
| 6 | 2–1 |
Monjardín died in a car accident on 13 November 1950.[3]
