Agustín Rodríguez Santiago (born 10 September 1959), known simply as Agustín, is a Spanish former

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who played as a

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Club career

Agustín was born in

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, Galicia. Even though he had already trained with the first team, the

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youth graduate was definitely promoted to the squad for the 1980–81 season. On 4 April 1981, he benefitted from injury to starter Mariano García Remón to make his

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debut, playing 71 minutes in the 3–1 away win over

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.Agustín, el portero del primer ‘EuroTenerife’ (Agustín, goalkeeper of the first 'EuroTenerife')
CD Tenerife, 6 June 2020 (in Spanish) Agustín conquered the

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for 1982–83 (29 matches, 25 goals),Todos los porteros que se quedaron con el Premio Zamora (All the goalkeepers that got the Zamora Trophy)

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, 20 May 2018 (in Spanish) but was almost always only a backup, consecutively to Miguel Ángel,

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and

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.Qué fue de… Agustín (What happened to… Agustín)

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, 27 August 2013 (in Spanish) In the final stretch of 1985–86, an injury to the second propelled him to starting duties again, and he appeared in both matches of that campaign's

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final against

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( 5–3 aggregate victory). In his last four seasons, Agustín partnered

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– his teammate would later play at Real Madrid – helping the insular side to finish fifth in 1992–93 and qualify for the UEFA Cup for the first time ever. In two consecutive years, his main club would lose the league to

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in the last round after losses against Tenerife. Agustín retired in 1994 at the age of 34, and had a brief goalkeeping coach spell (along with other undefined roles) with his last team.

International career

Agustín played

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for

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in the

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, being a reserve in all matches. He previously helped

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to reach the quarter-finals at the

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Honours

Castilla *

Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...

runner-up: 1979–80 Real Madrid *

: 1985–86, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90 *Copa del Rey: 1981–82, 1988–89 *

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: 1985–86 *

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runner-up: 1980–81Liverpool v Real Madrid: Alan Kennedy on 1981 European Cup

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, 3 May 2018 Individual *

: 1982–83

References

External links

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Real Madrid biography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Agustin 1959 births Living people 20th-century Spanish sportsmen Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Marín, Pontevedra Men's association football goalkeepers La Liga players Segunda División players Real Madrid Castilla footballers Real Madrid CF players CD Tenerife players UEFA Europa League–winning players Spain men's youth international footballers Spain men's under-21 international footballers Spain men's under-23 international footballers Spain men's amateur international footballers Spain men's B international footballers Olympic footballers for Spain Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics