Adrián Escudero

Adrián Escudero García (24 November 1927 – 7 March 2011) was a Spanish footballer who played as a striker.

Adrián Escudero
Personal information
Full name Adrián Escudero García
Date of birth (1927-11-24)24 November 1927
Place of birth Madrid, Spain
Date of death 7 March 2011(2011-03-07) (aged 83)
Place of death Madrid, Spain
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Banco Hispano Americano
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1945 Mediodía
1945–1958 Atlético Madrid 287 (150)
National team
1949 Spain B 1 (1)
1952–1956 Spain 3 (1)
Teams managed
1963 Atlético Madrid
1967–1968 Badajoz
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Escudero and the second or maternal family name is García.

He is the second the all-time leading goalscorer for Atlético Madrid with 169 goals, having appeared for the club in 13 La Liga seasons and played in more than 350 official games.[1]

Club career

Escudero arrived at Atlético Madrid in late 1945, from local amateurs Club Deportivo Mediodía. He ended his first season in La Liga with ten games and two goals, but scored in double digits in eight of the following ten campaigns, most notably contributing with 28 goals combined as the Colchoneros won back-to-back national championships in the early 1950s.

On 8 March 1953, Escudero netted Atlético's 1000th goal in the top division, in a 2–3 away loss against Celta de Vigo, through a penalty kick.[2] At the end of 1957–58 he did not have his contract renewed and decided to retire from football, aged only 30.

Escudero continued working with Atlético Madrid in the following years, first as youth team coach then as assistant manager. After the sacking of Rafael García Repullo (his former teammate) early into the 1963–64 season, he was an interim for one round, a 1–2 defeat at Valencia CF on 29 December 1963.

Escudero died on 7 March 2011 in his hometown of Madrid, at the age of 83.[2]

International career

Escudero earned three caps for Spain in three-and-a-half years, his debut coming on 7 December 1952 in a friendly with Argentina played in Madrid (0–1 loss). In his only official appearance, on 17 March 1954, he scored against Turkey for the 1954 FIFA World Cup qualifiers – the third playoff match ended 2–2 in Rome, and the Spaniards were eliminated after a drawing of lots.[3]

International goals
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.17 March 1954Stadio Olimpico, Roma, Italy Turkey2–22–21954 World Cup qualification

Honours
Atlético Madrid
Individual

References
  1. https://en.atleticodemadrid.com/noticias/fernando-torres-becomes-our-fifth-all-time-leading-goalscorer
  2. Fallece Escudero, máximo goleador en Liga del Atlético (Escudero, Atlético's top scorer in La Liga, dies); El Mundo, 8 March 2011 (in Spanish)
  3. "Cuando Franco entristeció a España" [When Franco made Spain sad] (in Spanish). Soitu. 28 March 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
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