José Luis García Traid (6 April 1936 – 11 January 1990) was a Spanish retired

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who played as a

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, and a former

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Playing career

Born in

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

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, García Traid represented Club Patria Aragon and SD La Salle as a youth, before joining

Real Zaragoza Real Zaragoza, S.A.D. (), commonly referred to as Zaragoza, is a football club based in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, that currently competes in the Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish league system. Zaragoza holds its home games at La ...

. Loan stints followed, with

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sides

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and UD Amistad. García Traid made his professional debut on 13 November 1955, starting and scoring a

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in a 7–1 home routing of

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in the

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. He appeared in two further matches during the campaign, as his side achieved promotion to

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. In January 1957, after making no appearances during the season, García Traid was loaned to

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in the second level until June. He appeared in ten matches and scored two goals for the

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before his loan expired. García Traid made his debut in the main category of Spanish football on 3 November 1957, in a 0–0 away draw against

UD Las Palmas Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Las Palmas, on the island of Gran Canaria in the autonomous community of Canary Islands. Founded on 22 August 1949, it plays in Segunda División, holding home games at the ...

. He scored his first goal in the category on 7 December of the following year, but in a 1–7 loss at

Atlético Madrid Club Atlético de Madrid, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D. (; meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), known simply as Atleti in the Spanish-speaking world and commonly referred to at international level as Atlético Madrid, is a Spanish profess ...

. From 1958 to 1961, García Traid became a regular starter for the ''Maños'', with his best input consisting of 28 matches and two goals in the 1959–60 campaign. He retired in 1963, aged only 26, due to a recurrent injury.

Managerial career

After retiring García Traid worked as a manager, his first club being AD San Lamberto's youth squads. In January 1971 he was named manager of his lifetime club Zaragoza, after a one-year spell at SD Huesca. García Traid was sacked in April, after failing to maintain the club's first division status. In 1973, he was appointed

UD Salamanca Unión Deportiva Salamanca, S.A.D. () was a historical Spanish football team based in Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded on 9 February 1923 and nicknamed ''Los Charros'', the club played in white shirts and black ...

manager, achieving top level promotion at first attempt; he remained in charge of the latter until 1978. After a spell at

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in the second tier, García Traid was appointed at the helm of Burgos CF in 1979. After again suffering relegation, he was named

manager. García Traid was relieved from his duties at ''Atleti'' in August 1981, but returned to the club in November after the dismissal of

Luis Cid Luis Cid Pérez, known as Carriega (9 December 1929 – 13 February 2018) was a Spanish professional football coach and player. He managed a number of club sides including Sporting de Gijón, Real Zaragoza, Sevilla, Real Betis, Atlético Madrid ...

; he remained in charge until the end of the season. In the following years he managed

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, Salamanca (two spells),

and

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Death

On 11 January 1990, García Traid died in

due to a mechanical failure during a

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