Adrián José Salcedo de Jesús (born 24 October 1994) is a Dominican

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who plays for

Atlántico FC Atlántico Fútbol Club is a Dominican professional football team based in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, founded in 2015. The team plays in the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol. History Founder Ruben Garcia decided to found the club in 2014 givi ...

and the Dominican Republic national team as a

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. He also holds Spanish citizenship.

Club career

Born in

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, Salcedo moved to the

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as a child and began playing football there when he was nine. He graduated from

RCD Mallorca Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, S.A.D. (, ca, Reial Club Deportiu Mallorca , ''Royal Sporting Club Mallorca''), commonly known as Real Mallorca or just Mallorca is a Spanish professional football club based in Palma on the island of Majorca in ...

's youth setup. He made his senior debuts with the reserves in the 2011–12 season, in

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. In the 2013 summer Salcedo joined another Spanish third division side, CE Constància. He only played three matches in the 2013–14 campaign and the team descended to

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. Salcedo began the next season as a player of 90 minutes for Constància, but he was injured in Week 6. After his recovery, in January 2015, he joined fellow

team UE Alcúdia where remained until the end of the season. In total, he played 23 games in the 2014/2015 campaign – 6 for Constància and 17 for Alcúdia. In the 2015 summer Salcedo joined another Spanish fourth division side,

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, and after playing 15 matches with them, scoring once, he signed for

in mid January 2016 to compete in the

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of that year. After finishing league in the Dominican Republic, in August 2016, he went back to Balearic football to play for Preferente's team Santanyí two months later. He returned to Atlántico FC in March 2017.

International career

Salcedo made his international debut for

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on 4 June 2016, as a second half substitution in a 1–0 away win against

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for the

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* * * 1994 births Living people Sportspeople from Santo Domingo Dominican Republic men's footballers Men's association football wing halves Men's association football fullbacks RCD Mallorca B players CE Constància players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Dominican Republic emigrants to Spain Naturalised citizens of Spain Spanish men's footballers Dominican Republic men's international footballers Liga Dominicana de Fútbol players {{DominicanRepublic-footy-bio-stub