Pedro Contreras
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Pedro Contreras González | ||
| Date of birth | 7 January 1972 | ||
| Place of birth | Madrid, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Real Madrid | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1992–1996 | Real Madrid B | 44 | (0) |
| 1994–1999 | Real Madrid | 4 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | → Rayo Vallecano (loan) | 41 | (0) |
| 1999–2003 | Málaga | 146 | (0) |
| 2003–2008 | Betis | 55 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | → Cádiz (loan) | 36 | (0) |
| Total | 326 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 2002 | Spain | 1 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Pedro Contreras González (born 7 January 1972) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
He played in 246 La Liga games over the course of 13 seasons, representing in the competition Real Madrid, Rayo Vallecano, Málaga and Betis.
Contreras was called up for Spain at the 2002 World Cup.
Club career
A product of Real Madrid's youth system, Madrid-born Contreras picked up a UEFA Champions League winner's medal in 1998, even though he did not play a minute during the season. He spent four years with the B-side, Real Madrid Castilla, and appeared in four first-team games in the 1998–99 campaign as Madrid finished runner-up; for 1996–97 he was loaned out to Rayo Vallecano where he only missed one league match in 42, but the club was relegated from La Liga.
Contreras moved to Málaga CF in the 1999–2000 season. There, he was the undisputed first-choice, missing only six top division contests from 1999 to 2003.
Contreras signed for Real Betis in 2003, making made 22 league appearances during the 2003–04 campaign, but none in the following due to injury and the rise of Toni Doblas. In 2005–06 he competed in both the UEFA Cup and the Champions League, where he kept a clean sheet against Chelsea in a 1–0 group stage win.[1]
Loaned to Cádiz CF (also in Andalusia, Segunda División) for 2007–08, alongside Dani,[2] Contreras was released at the end of the season. He subsequently retired from the game, and rejoined former team Málaga as a goalkeeping coach.[3]
International career
Contreras was third-choice for the Spanish national team in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, a late addition to coach José Antonio Camacho's squad after first-choice Santiago Cañizares was injured in a freak accident.[4] He received his only cap in a 0–0 home draw against Paraguay in Logroño, on 16 October of that year.[5]
Honours
- Real Madrid
- UEFA Champions League: 1997–98
- Intercontinental Cup: 1998
- La Liga: 1994–95
- Supercopa de España: 1997
- Málaga
- Betis
References
- ↑ Betis buoyed by Dani strike; UEFA.com, 1 November 2005
- ↑ Contreras, nuevo refuerzo (Contreras, new addition); Cádiz's official website, 2 August 2007 (Spanish)
- ↑ Contreras cuelga las botas y entrenará a los porteros del Málaga (Contreras hangs boots and will coach Málaga's keepers); Marca, 6 September 2008 (Spanish)
- ↑ "Pedro Contreras". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ↑ Rodrigálvarez, Eduardo (17 October 2002). "España flojea frente a Paraguay" [Spain laze about against Paraguay] (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
External links
- Pedro Contreras profile at BDFutbol
- National team data
- Stats and bio at Cadistas1910 (Spanish)
- Pedro Contreras at National-Football-Teams.com
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