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Julio Llorente
Spanish footballer
Julio Llorente Gento (born 14 June 1966) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played mainly as a right-back.
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Llorente in 2013 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Julio Llorente Gento | ||
| Date of birth | (1966-06-14) 14 June 1966 (age 57) | ||
| Place of birth | Valladolid, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Right-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Real Madrid | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1985–1987 | Castilla | 53 | (2) |
| 1987–1990 | Real Madrid | 22 | (2) |
| 1987–1988 | → Mallorca (loan) | 24 | (1) |
| 1990–1999 | Tenerife | 234 | (17) |
| 1999–2000 | Salamanca | 35 | (1) |
| Total | 368 | (23) | |
| International career | |||
| 1984 | Spain U18 | 1 | (0) |
| 1987–1988 | Spain U21 | 7 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Born in Valladolid, Castile and León, Llorente finished his development with La Liga giants Real Madrid, making his debut in the competition in the 1987–88 season with fellow league club RCD Mallorca, on loan. He returned to the Spanish capital upon his team's relegation, going on to play 33 competitive games during his two-year tenure and win five major titles, including two consecutive national championships. He appeared in six European Cup matches with the Merengues, scoring in a 6–0 home win against CA Spora Luxembourg in the 1989–90 edition.[1]
Llorente signed with CD Tenerife in summer 1990, helping to the Canary Islands side's domestic and European consolidation.[2][3] From 1994 to 1996 he scored a total of nine goals in 75 league matches, adding five appearances in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup to help them reach the semi-finals.[4]
Tenerife were relegated to Segunda División in 1999, and 33-year-old Llorente joined another club in that level, UD Salamanca, retiring after one season with top-flight totals of 280 games and 20 goals.
Llorente hailed from a sporting family. Aside from his uncle Francisco Gento, his three older brothers were also professionals: José Luis (1959) and Antonio "Toñín" (1963) played top-level basketball for well more than one decade (including at Real Madrid), while Francisco spent seven seasons with Real Madrid, coinciding with Julio from 1988 to 1990.[5][6]
Real Madrid
- La Liga: 1988–89, 1989–90
- Copa del Rey: 1988–89
- Supercopa de España: 1988, 1989
- Pla Díaz, Emilio. "Real Madrid CF – All the players in European Cups". RSSSF. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- Padilla, Luis (29 November 2018). "El 'susto' de Julio Llorente" [Julio Llorente's 'scare'] (in Spanish). El Dorsal. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- "El central granadino Carlos Ruiz alcanza 200 partidos oficiales con Tenerife" [Granada-born stopper Carlos Ruiz reaches 200 official matches with Tenerife]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 14 April 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- "¿Qué fue del CD Tenerife semifinalista de la UEFA?" [What happened to UEFA semi-finalists CD Tenerife?] (in Spanish). Sphera Sports. 18 January 2017. Archived from the original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- "Fallece María Antonia Gento, madre de la saga Llorente" [María Antonia Gento, mother of the Llorente saga, dies]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 10 January 2003. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- "Marcos Llorente, heredero de Gento, de Grosso, de Paco, de Julio, de "You"" [Marcos Llorente, heir of Gento, of Grosso, of Paco, of Julio, of "You"]. ABC (in Spanish). 22 October 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- Julio Llorente at BDFutbol