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Three months after Quini’s release, Barcelona won the King’s Cup in a final against Quini’s former club, Sporting de Gijón, during which he scored twice. In 1984, Quini decided to retire ...
Born in Oviedo, Asturias, Quini joined local Real Oviedo 's neighbours Sporting de Gijón in 1968, from amateurs CD Ensidesa. [2] In his first season in La Liga, 1970–71, he scored 13 goals in 30 games and, the following nine years, only netted once in single digits and won three Pichichi, one in Segunda División; ironically, in the year in ...
Mar 22, 2017 · However, during that period came Barcelona’s darkest hour and unquestionably one of the worst episodes in football history. Sunday, 1 March 1981, was a day that changed Quini’s life forever. Having scored twice to help Barça destroy Hércules 6-0 at Camp Nou, he left the stadium and was on his way to the airport to collect his wife, Maria ...
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Aug 23, 2022 · Quini received his first significant acknowledgment at the end of the 1973-1974 season when he won his first Pichichi Trophy in La Liga, having scored 20 goals. Nothing Short Of Captivating Quini’s abilities as a striker earned him the nicknames’ Quinocho’, ‘Quinigol,’ and ‘El Brujo,’ which means ‘the warlock.’
Mar 5, 2018 · The kidnapping lasted 25 days. The three men who took Quini were on the dole and desperate. They had slept rough on the hill of Montjuic as they planned the kidnapping, and when police finally liberated Quini, a magazine article on him was among the things they found. Yet the planning was far from perfect.
Mar 2, 2018 · Quini, the former Barcelona footballer who has died of a heart attack aged 68, was among the most prolific strikers of the 1970s and top scorer in La Liga a record five times; yet what secured him ...
Aug 21, 2015 · 65-year old Enrique Castro González, or Quini, as he is widely known as, is one of the greatest strikers in Spanish football history. Having played for Sporting Gijon and Barcelona, he bagged a ...
