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José Santamaría
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Uruguayan and Spanish footballer (1929-2026)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 0
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Cuba
- Active from
- 1922-04-07
- Active to
- 2003-02-01
Discography
- Drums and Chants1957
- Mongo1959
- Sabroso!1959
- Arriba - La Pachanga1961
- Go, Mongo!1962
- Mighty Mongo1962
- Mongo Introduces La Lupe1963
- Watermelon Man!1963
- El Pussy Cat1965
- La Bamba1965
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses
· 2009 · cited 12,417x
- 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2016 · cited 11,109x
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Key facts
- Full name
- José Emilio Santamaría Iglesias
- Date of birth
- ( 1929-07-31 ) 31 July 1929
- Place of birth
- Montevideo , Uruguay
- Date of death
- 15 April 2026 (2026-04-15) (aged 96)
- Place of death
- Madrid , Spain
- Height
- 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Position
- Centre-back
- Years
- Team
- 1948 1957
- Nacional
- 1957 1966
- Real Madrid
- 1952 1957
- Uruguay
- 1958 1962
- Spain
- 1968 1971
- Spain youth/olympic
- 1971 1977
- Español
- 1978 1980
- Spain U21
- 1980 1982
- Spain
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Sporting San Jose
- Position
- Midfielder
- Nationality
- Costa Rica
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Uruguay
- Place of birth
- Montevideo
- Place of death
- Madrid
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 1954 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Spain men's national football team
- Position played
- defender
- Country for sport
- Uruguay
- Official website
- www.joseemiliosantamaria.com
- Image
- José Santamaría 1976.jpg
- Height
- 1.79
Show 10 more facts
- Commons category
- José Santamaría
- date of birth
- 1929-07-31
- second family name in Spanish name
- Iglesias
- start of work period
- 1947-00-00
- end of work period
- 1966-00-00
- birth name
- José Emilio Santamaría Iglesias
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 2
- total goals in career
- 0
- date of death
- 2026-04-15
- name in native language
- José Santamaría
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Encyclopedic overview
José Emilio Santamaría Iglesias (31 July 1929 – 15 April 2026) was a professional football player and manager. A central defender, he spent his 18-year club career with Nacional and Real Madrid, winning 12 titles with the latter including four European Cups.
Born in Uruguay, Santamaría represented both the Uruguay and Spain national teams. He later embarked on a coaching career, which included a two-year spell as manager of the Spanish national side.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “José Santamaría” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.