Santillana in 2009 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Carlos Alonso González[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1952-08-23)23 August 1952 (age 73)[1] | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Santillana del Mar, Spain | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
| Position | Striker | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| Satélite | ||||||||||||||
| 1966–1970 | Barreda | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1970–1971 | Racing Santander | 35 | (16) | |||||||||||
| 1971–1988 | Real Madrid | 461 | (186) | |||||||||||
| Total | 496 | (202) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1970 | Spain U18 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1971 | Spain U23 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1971–1976 | Spain amateur | 6 | (3) | |||||||||||
| 1981 | Spain B | 1 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1975–1985 | Spain | 56 | (15) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Carlos Alonso González (born 23 August 1952), known asSantillana, is a Spanish former professionalfootballer who played as astriker.
He was best known for hisReal Madrid spell, which consisted of 17La Liga seasons and 645 competitive matches. He signed with the club in 1971, fromRacing de Santander.
The recipient of more than 50caps forSpain, Santillana represented the nation in twoWorld Cups and as manyEuropean Championships.
Born inSantillana del Mar,Cantabria, Santillana (his nickname taken from his birthplace) started playing professionally with localRacing de Santander. He moved toReal Madrid andLa Liga in 1971 alongside teammateFrancisco Aguilar, aged just 19,[2] and scored ten goals in 34 games in hisdebut season as the team were crowned league champions.[3]
Santillana went on to win nine league titles, fourCopa del Reys and two consecutiveUEFA Cups, scoring in both finals. He played 645 first-team matches – a record which stood untilManolo Sanchís surpassed him during the1997–98 campaign – and scored 290 goals;[4][5] the eighth-highest all-time scorer in the first division, with 186 goals in 461 appearances, he never won thePichichi Trophy.[6]
After just 12 league appearances in1987–88, in which he scored four times, Santillana retired from football at the age of 35, finding the net in a 2–1 home win againstReal Valladolid. Madrid won three titles in a row in his final three seasons.[7]
Santillana played 56 times and scored 15 goals for theSpain national team, his debut being on 17 April 1975 in a 1–1 draw withRomania for theUEFA Euro 1976qualifiers held inMadrid. He represented his country in the1978 and1982FIFA World Cups, as well as threeEuropean Championships: 1976, reaching the quarter-finals,1980, failing to advance to the second round, and1984 which ended with a runner-up finish to hostsFrance, with the player coming close to scoring the opener on a header saved just off the line byLuis Fernández.[8][9]
On 21 December 1983, during aEuropean Championship qualifying match againstMalta that had to be won by 11 goals, Santillana scored ahat-trick in the first half and added a fourth in the second period, asSpain won 12–1 and qualified at the expense of theNetherlands.[10]
Santillana possessed stellar heading skills despite not reaching 1.80 m, courtesy of his jumping ability, and was widely regarded as one of the best strikers in the history of Spanish football.[11][12][13]
| Club | Season | League | Copa del Rey | Copa de la Liga | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Racing Santander | 1970–71 | Segunda División | 35 | 16 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 36 | 16 | |||
| Real Madrid | 1971–72 | La Liga | 34 | 10 | 6 | 3 | — | 4[a] | 2 | — | 44 | 15 | ||
| 1972–73 | La Liga | 29 | 10 | 0 | 0 | — | 6[b] | 5 | — | 35 | 15 | |||
| 1973–74 | La Liga | 18 | 3 | 6 | 7 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 24 | 9 | |||
| 1974–75 | La Liga | 32 | 17 | 7 | 3 | — | 4[c] | 3 | — | 43 | 23 | |||
| 1975–76 | La Liga | 30 | 12 | 2 | 1 | — | 7[b] | 5 | — | 39 | 18 | |||
| 1976–77 | La Liga | 30 | 12 | 2 | 0 | — | 4[b] | 1 | — | 36 | 13 | |||
| 1977–78 | La Liga | 34 | 24 | 6 | 4 | — | — | — | 40 | 28 | ||||
| 1978–79 | La Liga | 33 | 18 | 11 | 6 | — | 4[b] | 2 | — | 48 | 26 | |||
| 1979–80 | La Liga | 33 | 23 | 6 | 3 | — | 8[b] | 3 | — | 47 | 29 | |||
| 1980–81 | La Liga | 31 | 13 | 4 | 1 | — | 8[b] | 3 | — | 43 | 17 | |||
| 1981–82 | La Liga | 20 | 9 | 3 | 0 | — | 5[a] | 2 | — | 28 | 11 | |||
| 1982–83 | La Liga | 27 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5[d] | 9[c] | 8 | 1[e] | 0 | 48 | 29 | |
| 1983–84 | La Liga | 31 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2[a] | 1 | — | 41 | 17 | ||
| 1984–85 | La Liga | 22 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8[a] | 5 | — | 37 | 12 | ||
| 1985–86 | La Liga | 27 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 9[a] | 5 | — | 44 | 14 | ||
| 1986–87 | La Liga | 18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 5[b] | 2 | — | 25 | 4 | |||
| 1987–88 | La Liga | 12 | 4 | 7 | 4 | — | 4[b] | 0 | — | 23 | 8 | |||
| Total | 461 | 186 | 84 | 49 | 12 | 8 | 87 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 645 | 290 | ||
| Career total | 496 | 202 | 85 | 49 | 12 | 8 | 87 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 681 | 306 | ||
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 November 1975 | 23 August,Bucharest, Romania | 2–0 | 2–2 | Euro 1976 qualifying | |
| 2 | 24 April 1976 | Vicente Calderón,Madrid, Spain | 1–0 | 1–1 | Euro 1976 qualifying | |
| 3 | 4 October 1978 | Maksimir,Zagreb, Yugoslavia | 2–0 | 2–1 | Euro 1980 qualifying | |
| 4 | 13 December 1978 | El Helmántico,Salamanca, Spain | 3–0 | 5–0 | Euro 1980 qualifying | |
| 5 | 5–0 | |||||
| 6 | 9 December 1979 | Tsirion,Limassol, Cyprus | 2–0 | 3–1 | Euro 1980 qualifying | |
| 7 | 27 April 1983 | La Romareda,Zaragoza, Spain | 1–0 | 2–0 | Euro 1984 qualifying | |
| 8 | 16 November 1983 | De Kuip,Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1–1 | 1–2 | Euro 1984 qualifying | |
| 9 | 21 December 1983 | Benito Villamarín,Seville, Spain | 1–0 | 12–1 | Euro 1984 qualifying | |
| 10 | 2–1 | |||||
| 11 | 3–1 | |||||
| 12 | 9–1 | |||||
| 13 | 11 April 1984 | Luis Casanova,Valencia, Spain | 1–1 | 2–1 | Friendly | |
| 14 | 26 May 1984 | Charmilles,Geneva, Switzerland | 4–0 | 4–0 | Friendly | |
| 15 | 17 June 1984 | Vélodrome,Marseille, France | 1–1 | 1–1 | UEFA Euro 1984 |
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