Enrique Mateos Mancebo (15 July 1934 – 6 July 2001) was a Spanish

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who played as a striker. He amassed

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totals of 123 games and 48 goals over the course of 13 seasons, representing in the competition

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and Betis.

Club career

Born in

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, Mateos finished his graduation at local and national powerhouse

. He was mainly a reserve player during his eight-year spell with the first team, which won 13 major titles during that timeframe; his best output came during the 1956–57 season, when he scored a career-best 14 goals in 21 games ''en route'' to the

championship; additionally, he netted nine times in 16 appearances combined in the

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, winning the tournament on four occasions. Mateos left the ''Merengues'' in the 1961 summer, with official totals of 93 matches and 50 goals. He subsequently represented, in his country,

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(two spells with both clubs) and

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, suffering a serious injury whilst at the service of the first from which he never fully recovered; until his retirement at the age of 37, he also played for the

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in the

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and East London Celtic in

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. Subsequently, Mateos worked as a manager for roughly twenty years. His biggest achievement at the professional level consisted of leading

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to its first-ever promotion to the top flight in

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, being sacked early into the following campaign as the

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ns were eventually relegated back.

International career

Mateos earned eight

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for the Spain football team, during four years. He scored in his debut on 31 March 1957, a 5–0 friendly win in

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Career statistics

Death

Mateos died in

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on 6 July 2001, two weeks shy of his 67th birthday.

Honours

Real Madrid *

: 1953–54, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1960–61 *

: 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60 * Intercontinental Cup:

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: 1955, 1957

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