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Adauto Iglesias Fernández (born on 28 October 1928, died 12 September 1991 ) was a Spanish
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. He played in the main for
Celta Vigo Real Club Celta de Vigo (; ), commonly known as Celta Vigo, is a Spanish professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football. Nicknamed ''Os Celestes'' (The Sky Blues), the club was foun ...
and
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. After emigrating to Australia he won
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titles as player and coach with
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club
APIA Leichhardt APIA Leichhardt Football Club, also known simply as APIA (Associazione Poli-sportiva Italo Australiana), is a semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Leichhardt, New South Wales, Leichhardt in Sydney, Australia. The club was forme ...
.


Biography

Adauto Iglesias was born as the oldest of three brothers in the Asturian small town
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in northern Spain. His father was a factory worker, his mother run a butchers shop.He started playing footbal at the ''Colegio de los Hermanos de la Salle'' of his hometown. Initially he was centre forward. After one of his shots broke the glasses of a
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, he was stuck between the goalposts, and he stuck. As a 13 year old he started on club level with Unión de Mieres. Five years later he became part of
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, a local side which made it to the third division in 1946. His talent was recognised, and a year later he was hired by
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, a respectable side which in the early 1930s had won a couple of national championships and had added since four wins in the national cup competition. However, he could not make the goalkeeping job his. In the first year he was reserve behind
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and in the second behind
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, thus he only made eight league matches in that period. In 1950 he was passed on to
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, the quasi reserve team of Real Madrid, which played in the second division. They used him in 20 league matches. He returned for two more years to Real Madrid only finding use in one more Primera División match. In the season 1952–53 he had a new competitor for the number two spot, Cosme, who got to stand in eight times for Alonso, his only matches for the club in his three years there, while Adauto failed to get considered. An official Real Madrid website praised Adauto for his positioning and general talent, but the presence of two great goalkeepers of the club's history, Bañón and Alonso, they say, prevented a more substantial career with the club. The site stated, that he was considered "one of the best keepers in the history of the club". At the end of the season 1952–53 he was transferred to
Celta de Vigo Real Club Celta de Vigo (; ), commonly known as Celta Vigo, is a Spanish professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football. Nicknamed ''Os Celestes'' (The Sky Blues), the club was fou ...
, where he played for the next 4 seasons. With Celta he was their regular keeper in his first season there. In the following three seasons he was only used in about half the matches of the club. Disciplinary issues are considered a cause of this. He ended his career in Spain with the Asturian small town club CPS La Felguera playing there the 1957–58 season of the second division. Adauto played in 29 of the 34 league matches of the club. By the end of the season the club was last in the table, and thus ended the five most glorious years of the club - and Adauto ended his career as football player, at least this is what he thought then.


Retirement in Australia

In 1961 Iglesias emigrated to Australia and settled in Sydney. There he ended up joining the
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club
APIA Leichhardt APIA Leichhardt Football Club, also known simply as APIA (Associazione Poli-sportiva Italo Australiana), is a semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Leichhardt, New South Wales, Leichhardt in Sydney, Australia. The club was forme ...
, which won the state championships of 1964 and 1965; a national championship did not yet exist back then. He was in Apia's premiership-winning team in 1964. In that year he also got one match for the Australian national team, when they lost in Melbourne 1-5 to English club side
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. After an injury he was replaced by
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who impressed and got to keep the job. Roberts became the Australian national goalkeeper in 1965 and even had a career in England. In early January 1967 he was appointed coach of APIA Leichhardt, replacing former Australian and APIA captain
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. The club finished that year first in the NSW State League, but like in 1966 lost the Grand Final to the runner-up, in this case with 5-2 to St. George Budapest. 1968 Apia only became third. 1969 did not start to well too and on 10 March he was replaced by the Austrian Walter Tamandl who led the team to second place and a win the Grand Final. After his death on 12 September 1991 a requiem mass was held in St Fiacre's Church in Leichhardt. His remains were laid to rest in
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.''Funerals'',
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, 16 September 1991, p. 28


External links

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Australian Player Database
OzFootball *

', Yo jugué en el Celta, 13 April 2008 *
Adaucto Iglesias
', Find a Grave


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iglesias, Adauto Real Madrid CF players RC Celta de Vigo players APIA Leichhardt FC players APIA Leichhardt FC managers La Liga players Segunda División players Men's association football goalkeepers Footballers from Mieres, Asturias Spanish men's footballers Spanish football managers Spanish expatriate men's footballers Spanish expatriates in Australia Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia 20th-century Spanish sportsmen Burials at Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park 1920s births 1991 deaths