Eleuterio Santos
{{short description|Spanish footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{family name hatnote|Santos|Brito|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Eleuterio Santos
| image =
| caption =
| fullname = Eleuterio Santos Brito
| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|11|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|1|28|1940|11|9|df=y}}
| death_place = Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
| height = {{height|m=1.77}}
| position = Midfielder
| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Prosperidad
| youthyears2 = | youthclubs2 = Tarrasa
| youthyears3 = | youthclubs3 = Unión Tenerife
| years1 = 1959–1963 | clubs1 = Tenerife | caps1 = 74 | goals1 = 26
| years2 = 1963–1972 | clubs2 = Zaragoza | caps2 = 199 | goals2 = 54
| years3 = 1972–1975 | clubs3 = Tudelano | caps3 = | goals3 =
| totalcaps = 273+ | totalgoals = 80+
| nationalyears1 = 1968 | nationalteam1 = Spain | nationalcaps1 = 1 | nationalgoals1 = 0
}}
Eleuterio Santos Brito (9 November 1940 – 28 January 2008) was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder.
He spent the vast majority of his professional career with Real Zaragoza, appearing in 280 official games and scoring 96 goals.{{cite news|url=https://as.com/futbol/2008/01/29/mas_futbol/1201591616_850215.html|title=Fallece Eleuterio Santos, el '8' de los Magníficos|trans-title=Death of Eleuterio Santos, '8' of the Magnificent|newspaper=Diario AS|first=Pedro Luis|last=Ferrer|language=es|date=29 January 2008|access-date=19 November 2024}}
Club career
Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Santos started playing with local CD Tenerife. He signed for Real Zaragoza in March 1963, going on to spend nine of his ten seasons with the club in La Liga and being part of an attacking frontline dubbed Los Magníficos, which also featured Canário, Carlos Lapetra, Marcelino and Juan Manuel Villa.{{cite news|url=http://deportes.elpais.com/deportes/2008/01/28/actualidad/1201508526_850215.html|title=Muere Santos, uno de los "cinco magníficos" del Zaragoza|trans-title=Death of Santos, one of Zaragoza's "magnificent five"|newspaper=El País|language=es|date=28 January 2008|access-date=25 June 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/deportes/futbol/real_zaragoza/2014/04/23/real_zaragoza_los_anos_magnificos_283744_611027.html|title=Los años Magníficos|trans-title=The Magnificent years|newspaper=Heraldo de Aragón|first=Miguel|last=Gay|language=es|date=23 April 2014|access-date=27 April 2018}}
Nicknamed Yeyo, Santos retired in 1975 aged 35 following a spell with CD Tudelano of Tercera División.{{cite web|url=https://www.clubdeportivotenerife.es/noticias/santos-uno-de-los-cinco-magnificos|title=Santos, uno de los ‘Cinco magníficos’|trans-title=Santos, one of the 'Five magnificent'|publisher=CD Tenerife|language=es|date=13 April 2020|access-date=4 December 2024}}
International career
Santos earned one cap for Spain, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–1 away friendly draw against Sweden on 2 May 1968.{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1968/05/03/pagina-4/944240/pdf.html#|title=1–1: Prometedora actuación de la selección española a una semana del encuentro contra Inglaterra|trans-title=1–1: Promising performance by the Spanish national team one week away from the match against England|newspaper=Mundo Deportivo|first=Matías|last=Prats|language=es|date=3 May 1968|access-date=27 April 2018}}
Death
Santos died in his hometown on 28 January 2008 at age 67, after a long battle with illness.{{cite news|url=http://www.elperiodicodearagon.com/noticias/deportes/fallece-eleuterio-santos-jugador-de-los-cinco-magnificos-del-zaragoza_382761.html|title=Fallece Eleuterio Santos, jugador de "Los Cinco Magníficos" del Zaragoza|trans-title=Death of Eleuterio Santos, part of Zaragoza's "Magnificent Five"|newspaper=El Periódico de Aragón|language=es|date=28 January 2008|access-date=25 June 2013}}
Honours
Tenerife
- Segunda División: 1960–61{{cite news|url=https://www.atlanticohoy.com/sin-categoria/se-va-el-magnifico-santos_1010733_102.html|title=Se va el ‘Magnífico’ Santos|trans-title='Magnificent' Santos goes away|newspaper=Atlántico Hoy|first=Luis|last=Padilla|language=es|date=11 March 2018|access-date=19 November 2024}}
Zaragoza
- Copa del Generalísimo: 1963–64,{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1964/07/06/pagina-3/922639/pdf.html#|title=R. Zaragoza, 2 – At. de Madrid, 1|newspaper=Mundo Deportivo|first=Luis|last=Lainz|language=es|date=6 July 1964|access-date=19 November 2024}} 1965–66{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1966/05/30/pagina-1/941593/pdf.html#|title=El Zaragoza conquistó brillantemente la Copa de S.E.|trans-title=Zaragoza won the S.E. Cup brilliantly|newspaper=Mundo Deportivo|first=Nivardo|last=Pina|language=es|date=30 May 1966|access-date=19 November 2024}}
- Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1963–64{{cite news|url=https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/aragon/2014/06/26/el_real_zaragoza_campeon_copa_ferias_1964_295867_300.html|title=El Real Zaragoza, campeón de la Copa de Ferias en 1964|trans-title=Real Zaragoza, Fairs Cup champions in 1964|newspaper=Heraldo de Aragón|language=es|date=25 June 2014|access-date=19 November 2024}}
References
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External links
- {{BDFutbol|6051}}
- {{NFT player|pid=32086}}
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Category:20th-century Spanish sportsmen
Category:Spanish men's footballers
Category:Footballers from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Category:Men's association football midfielders
Category:Segunda División players
Category:Tercera División players
Category:Real Zaragoza players