Eduardo Cubells Ridaura (17 January 1900 – 13 March 1964) was a Spanish football player and manager.

Club career

Born in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

, Cubells began to play football in some of the first teams that have already disappeared in Valencia, such as Deportivo Español, before moving on to

when it was founded, playing as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for 13 years. He became one of the first Mestalla idols along with Arturo "Montes" Montesinos with whom he had a great friendship, although the fans were divided into "cubellistas" or "montistas".

International career

He became the first Valencia player to play for the Spain national team when he made his debut on 17 May 1925 in a match against

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. He was capped 5 games and scored only once, in a 1-0 win over Austria on 27 September 1925. Being a

player, he was eligible to play for the Valencian national team, and he was part of the team's first-ever line-up on 19 November 1922, in the quarter-finals of the 1922-23 Prince of Asturias Cup against an Andalusia XI, who were also making their international with the likes of Kinké, and although they lost 1-2, Cubells scored the consolation goal, thus becoming the author of the first goal in the history of the team. In the following edition they faced Andalusia in the quarter-finals again, and again they lost this time 2-3, with Cubells being once again the scorer of Valencia's consolation goals. Despite never going further than the quarter-finals, he is among the all-time top goal scorer in the competition's history with three goals.

Managerial career

He managed

International goals

Goals for Spain

:''Spain score listed first, score column indicates score after each Cubells goal.

Goals for Valencian Community

:''Valencia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Cubells goal.

References

1900 births 1964 deaths Spanish footballers Association football midfielders Spanish football managers Valencia CF managers La Liga managers Spain international footballers Valencia CF players {{Spain-footy-bio-stub