Ezequiel Marcelo Castillo Montes (born 13 June 1967 in
Buenos Aires
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) is an Argentine retired
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder
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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 ...
.
Football career
After starting professionally with
Argentinos Juniors
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, Castillo moved in
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
in January 1989, going on to spend the following 11 years in the country, with
RCD Español
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,
CD Tenerife
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,
Rayo Vallecano
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and
CD Badajoz – the latter in the
second division
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– always as an important first-team member. He amassed totals of 224 games and 15 goals in
La Liga
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.
In 2007, seven years after retiring, Castillo returned to active, with lowly
Sportivo Patria in his native country (he had already been awarded
Spanish citizenship
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).
External links
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Espanyol archives
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1967 births
Living people
Argentine sportspeople of Spanish descent
Argentine emigrants to Spain
Citizens of Spain through descent
Footballers from Buenos Aires
Argentine footballers
Association football midfielders
Argentine Primera División players
Argentinos Juniors footballers
La Liga players
Segunda División players
RCD Espanyol footballers
CD Tenerife players
Rayo Vallecano players
CD Badajoz players
Argentine expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain