Juan Acuña Naya, (14 February 1923 – 30 August 2001) was a Spanish

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who spent most of his playing career with

Deportivo de La Coruña Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña (), commonly known as Deportivo La Coruña () or simply Depor, is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia, that competes in the Segunda División, the ...

Biography

Born in

A Coruña A Coruña (; ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo. The city is the provincial capital of the province ...

, he started his career with Sporting Coruñés. Naya then went on to play for Eureka before joining Deportivo de la Coruña in 1938 with whom he would play until 1955. He played his first game with Deportivo in Ferroll in 1938. The following year, he signed a new contract with Deportivo with a salary of 300 pesetas per month. He suffered many problems because of injuries and being overweight. He is the goalkeeper with second-most Zamora Trophies with four, behind Antoni Ramallets with five wins. In 1961, he was offered a tribute match between Deportivo and

CD Ourense Club Deportivo Ourense, S.A.D. was a Spanish football team based in Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Founded in 1952 after the dissolution of old UD Orensana, it played in Segunda División B – Group 1, holding home games a ...

. In 1990 Deportivo created a Trophy with his name.

Honours

Individual *

Zamora Trophy The Zamora Trophy () is a association football, football award, established by Spanish newspaper ''Marca (newspaper), Marca'' in 1958. The award goes to the goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper who has the lowest "goals-to-games" rati ...

: 1941–42, 1942–43, 1949–50, 1950–51

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* 1923 births Spanish men's footballers Spain men's international footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Deportivo de La Coruña players La Liga players 1950 FIFA World Cup players Footballers from A Coruña 2001 deaths 20th-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-footy-goalkeeper-stub