Baldo Santana Martínez (born 25 May 1995) is a Spanish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays for

CD Toledo B Club Deportivo Toledo, S.A.D. "B" is the reserve team of CD Toledo Club Deportivo Toledo, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Toledo, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Founded in 1928 it plays in Tercera División RFEF ...

. Mainly a

central defender In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

, he can also play as a

right back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

Club career

Born in

Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in t ...

, Baldo joined

Hércules CF Hércules de Alicante Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. () is a Spanish football team in Alicante, in the autonomous community of Valencian Community. Founded on 25 October 1922, it currently plays in Segunda División RFEF – Group 3 and plays its hom ...

's youth setup in 2007, after starting it out at local clubs CD El Cabo and

Alicante CF Alicante Club de Fútbol was a Spanish football team based in Alicante, in the Valencian Community. Founded in 1918, it played its home matches at ''Estadio Alicante CF'', with a 4,000-seat capacity. History ''Alicante Club de Fútbol'', under t ...

. In the 2009 summer he moved to Valencia CF, being assigned to the youth squads, but moved back to the ''Blanquiazules'' two years later. On 17 August 2013, while still a junior, Baldo played his first match as a professional, coming on as a late substitute for

Gai Assulin Gai Yigaal Assulin ( he, גיא יגאל אסולין; born 9 April 1991) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a winger or an attacking midfielder. He last played for Serie D club Crema. As a teenager, he was registered at Barce ...

in a 1–1 home draw against Real Zaragoza. On 12 July of the following year he signed a two-year deal with the club, being definitely promoted to the main squad now in

Segunda División B Segunda División B ( en, Second Division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish Foot ...

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* * 1995 births Living people Footballers from Alicante Spanish men's footballers Men's association football defenders Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Hércules CF B players Hércules CF players {{Spain-footy-defender-stub