Daniel Toribio Aquino Antúnez (born 9 June 1965), nicknamed ''El Toro'' (

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),Qué fue de… Daniel ‘Toro’ Aquino (What happened to… Daniel 'Bull' Aquino)
20 minutos, 23 May 2012 (in Spanish) is an Argentine former

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who played as a striker. He spent the bulk of his professional career in

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, appearing in 203

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matches over seven seasons (94 goals) in representation of four teams. His son

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was already born there, and played for Spain at youth level.

Club career

Aquino was born in

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. After starting his career at

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he moved to Spain in 1989, joining

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of the

and scoring 15 goals in 33 appearances in his first season. In the 1991 winter

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he signed for another team in the country,

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, being relatively used as the Castile-La Mancha side

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their recently acquired

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status (18 starts). From 1992 to 1994, Aquino achieved two consecutive

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awards in the second tier, one of them – with

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– ending in promotion. After a solid top-flight campaign at

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and a further one and a half at Albacete in division two, he finished his career in 2002 at the age of 37, with stints in the

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including former club Murcia, where his son

was born in 1990, eventually also becoming a professional footballer. From 2008 to 2010, Aquino coached Murcia's juniors.'Papá' Aquino entrenará al juvenil de Liga Nacional ('Daddy' Aquino will coach National League's ''juvenil'')
La Verdad, 20 August 2008 (in Spanish)

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