Baldo Santana Martínez (born 25 May 1995) is a Spanish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays for

CD Toledo B Club Deportivo Toledo, S.A.D. "B" is the reserve team of CD Toledo, a Spanish football team based in Toledo, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Founded in 1996, it plays in , holding home games at '' Estadio Salto del Caballo'', ...

. Mainly a

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, he can also play as a

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Club career

Born in

Alicante Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: ''/'' ) is a city and municipalities of Spain, municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean port. The population ...

, Baldo joined

Hércules CF Hércules de Alicante Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. () is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team in Alicante, in the Valencian Community. Founded on 25 October 1922, it currently plays in Primera Federación and plays its home games ...

's youth setup in 2007, after starting it out at local clubs CD El Cabo and

Alicante CF Alicante Club de Fútbol was a Spanish football team based in Alicante, in the Valencian Community. Founded in 1918, it played its home matches at ''Estadio Alicante CF'', with a 4,000-seat capacity. History ''Alicante Club de Fútbol'', under t ...

. In the 2009 summer he moved to

Valencia CF Valencia Club de Fútbol, S. A. D. (; ), commonly referred to as Valencia CF or simply Valencia, is a Spanish professional Association football, football club based in Valencia, Spain, that currently plays in La Liga, the top tier of the Spani ...

, being assigned to the youth squads, but moved back to the ''Blanquiazules'' two years later. On 17 August 2013, while still a junior, Baldo played his first match as a professional, coming on as a late substitute for

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in a 1–1 home draw against

Real Zaragoza Real Zaragoza, S.A.D. (), commonly referred to as Zaragoza, is a football club based in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, that currently competes in the Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish football league system, Spanish league system. Zarag ...

. On 12 July of the following year he signed a two-year deal with the club, being definitely promoted to the main squad now in

Segunda División B Segunda División B (English: second division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish ...

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* * 1995 births Living people Footballers from Alicante Spanish men's footballers Men's association football defenders Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Hércules CF B players Hércules CF players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-footy-defender-stub