Chendo

Miguel Porlán Noguera (born 12 October 1961), known as Chendo, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right back.

Chendo
Personal information
Full name Miguel Porlán Noguera
Date of birth (1961-10-12) 12 October 1961
Place of birth Totana, Spain
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Right back
Youth career
1977–1979 Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979–1983 Castilla 67 (1)
1982–1998 Real Madrid 363 (3)
Total 430 (4)
National team
1981 Spain U19 4 (0)
1980–1984 Spain U21 9 (0)
1986–1990 Spain 26 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He spent his entire professional career with Real Madrid, also being a member of the Spain national team, with which he appeared in two World Cups.

Club career

Born in Totana, Region of Murcia, Chendo played for Real Madrid during seventeen professional seasons, winning seven La Liga titles (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1995 and 1997), two Copa del Rey trophies (1989 and 1993), one UEFA Champions League (1998) and back-to-back UEFA Cups (1985 and 1986).

He arrived in Real Madrid at the age of fifteen and was part of its junior ranks for five years, making his official debut for the first team on 11 April 1982 in a 2–1 win at CD Castellón. The following campaign, he would feature in two further league matches.

At the beginning of 1983–84, Juan José dominated the right-back position, starting five out of the first six games: injuries then struck him, after which Chendo was given the starting spot. As Juan José returned to the first team Chendo returned to the bench, but finished the season again as first-choice, appearing in 26 contests overall.

Chendo became the starter in his fourth year, playing 25 league matches and adding 11 in European competition. At the end of the season, Real Madrid won the UEFA Cup against Hungarian club Videoton FC by a 3–1 aggregate score, though losing the second leg at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium 0–1, as well as the Spanish League Cup (4–3 aggregate win over Atlético Madrid), with the player starting both finals; the team finished fifth in the league, 17 points behind champions FC Barcelona.

For the next eight seasons, Chendo was the undisputed first-choice, starting in 297 games out of a possible 320 and being an integral part of a squad that collected five straight league titles. From 1992 to 1995, however, he would only amass 34 league appearances as only third-choice, losing his place to the likes of Nando, the reconverted Luis Enrique or Paco Llorente. In the following years more of the same befell, as he played second-fiddle to Quique Sánchez Flores, Carlos Secretário and Christian Panucci – although he did play 23 matches in the 1995–96 campaign, as Real stumbled to a final sixth place; he served more as a moral support and bench captain, like Manuel Sanchís later, subbing rarely and starting even more rarely.[1]

After Real Madrid lifted its seventh European Cup against Juventus F.C. on 20 May 1998 (he did not play in the decisive match), Chendo retired from professional football, aged almost 37. He immediately started working with the club as a match delegate, occupying that position for well over a decade.[2][3][4][5]

International career

Chendo earned 26 caps for Spain, and played in the 1986[6] and 1990 FIFA World Cups. Backing up Atlético Madrid's Tomás in the former and starting in the latter, he totalled five appearances.[7]

Chendo's debut came on 22 January 1986 in a friendly match with the Soviet Union, in Las Palmas.[8][9]

Personal life

On 2 July 1986, the 24-year-old Chendo was involved in a car accident near Quintanar de la Orden, in which his one-month son Miguel died, his wife María del Pilar and himself emerged unscathed and his brother-in-law suffered fractures to his right arm and elbow.[10]

Club statistics

[11][12]

Club Performance
Club Season La Liga Copa de la Liga Copa del Rey Europe Others Total
App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals
Real Madrid 1981–82
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
Real Madrid 1982–83
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
Real Madrid 1983–84
21
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
0
0
26
0
Real Madrid 1984–85
25
0
6
0
1
0
11
0
0
0
43
0
Real Madrid 1985–86
30
0
0
0
5
0
10
0
0
0
45
0
Real Madrid 1986–87
40
0
0
0
6
0
8
0
0
0
52
0
Real Madrid 1987–88
31
1
0
0
7
0
8
0
0
0
46
1
Real Madrid 1988–89
26
0
0
0
7
0
5
0
0
0
38
0
Real Madrid 1989–90
37
1
0
0
5
0
4
0
0
0
46
1
Real Madrid 1990–91
36
0
0
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
40
0
Real Madrid 1991–92
37
0
0
0
7
0
10
0
0
0
54
0
Real Madrid 1992–93
12
0
0
0
4
0
2
0
0
0
16
0
Real Madrid 1993–94
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
13
0
Real Madrid 1994–95
10
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
12
1
Real Madrid 1995–96
23
0
0
0
2
0
4
0
0
0
27
0
Real Madrid 1996–97
16
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
18
0
Real Madrid 1997–98
4
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
6
0
Total 17 363 3 6 0 52 0 70 0 1 0 497 3

Honours

Real Madrid

See also

References

  1. El eterno recambio (The eternal sub); El País, 14 June 1997 (in Spanish)
  2. Bronca de Guti y Chendo en el banquillo (Guti and Chendo have run-in in bench); Diario AS, 16 May 2010 (in Spanish)
  3. It was Jose Mourinho’s idea that I play against Seleccion de Murcia – Former Real Madrid defender Chendo; Goal, 18 May 2011
  4. El retorno de Chendo, el lateral que le hizo un 'caño' a Maradona (The return of Chendo, the fullback who 'nutmegged' Maradona); RTVE, 19 May 2011 (in Spanish)
  5. Y Chendo se quedó dormido (And Chendo fell asleep); El Mundo, 3 December 2015 (in Spanish)
  6. "Del utillero falangista al positivo de Calderé: nuestro Mundial 86 en diez episodios" [From the falangista kit man to Calderé's positive: our 86 World Cup in ten episodes] (in Spanish). El Confidencial. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  7. ChendoFIFA competition record
  8. Muñoz selecciona a Chendo y a Julio Salinas contra la URSS (Muñoz selects Chendo and Julio Salinas against USSR); El País, 18 January 1986 (in Spanish)
  9. 2–0: España venció a la URSS en un partido jugado a gran velocidad por ambos equipos (2–0: Spain defeated USSR in match where both teams displayed great speed); ABC, 23 January 1986 (in Spanish)
  10. El jugador madridista Chendo sufre un accidente de tráfico en el que muere su hijo, de un mes (Real Madrid player Chendo suffers traffic accident in which his son, one-month old, dies); El País, 3 July 1986 (in Spanish)
  11. Chendo at BDFutbol
  12. "Chendo". Footballdatabase. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  13. "La gloria de un humilde" [Glory of an humble one] (in Spanish). Real Madrid CF. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  14. "Las competiciones oficiales de la CONMEBOL" [The official CONMEBOL competitions] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
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