Valero Serer
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Valero Serer Pascual | ||
Date of birth | 2 November 1932 | ||
Place of birth | Valencia, Spain | ||
Date of death | 31 July 2022 | (aged 89)||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1953–1954 | Mestalla | 9 | (3) |
1954–1955 | Gandía | ||
1955–1959 | Zaragoza | 33 | (22) |
1959–1970 | Gimnàstic | 328 | (181) |
Total | 370 | (206) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Valero Serer Pascual (2 November 1932 – 31 July 2022)[1] was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward.
He was Gimnàstic de Tarragona's all-time scoring leader, with 181 goals over the course of 11 seasons.[2][3]
Career
[edit]Born in Valencia, Serer started his professional career with local CD Mestalla, scoring three goals in nine matches in Segunda División. In 1955, after one full season at CF Gandía, he joined Real Zaragoza also in the second level.
Serer achieved promotion to La Liga in his first campaign, also being the club's top goalscorer with 11 goals. He made his debut in the category on 14 October 1956, starting and scoring his team's only goal in a 4–1 away loss against Real Valladolid.[4]
In December 1959 Serer was released, after falling down in the pecking order, and immediately joined Gimnàstic de Tarragona. With the granas he scored 181 goals over the course of 11 seasons, and retired in 1970 at the age of 38.
References
[edit]- ^ Mes, Diari (31 July 2022). "Muere Valero Serer, el histórico jugador del Nàstic". diarimes.com (in Spanish).
- ^ "Valero Serer obre els actes previs del centenari de la secció de futbol" [Valero Serer opens previous acts of the centenary of football section] (in Catalan). Gimnàstic's official website. 25 August 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "El Nàstic en Xifres" [Nàstic in numbers] (in Catalan). NàsticdeTarragona.com. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Valladolid, 4–Zaragoza, 1" (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 15 October 1956. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
External links
[edit]- Valero Serer at BDFutbol
- 1932 births
- 2022 deaths
- Footballers from Valencia
- Spanish men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- La Liga players
- Segunda División players
- Tercera División players
- Valencia CF Mestalla footballers
- Real Zaragoza players
- Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers
- CF Gandía players
- 20th-century Spanish sportsmen
- Spanish football forward stubs