Fernando Barrachina Plo (24 February 1947 – 4 January 2016) was a Spanish professional

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 played as a

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Career

Born in

Granada Granada ( ; ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence ...

, Barrachina played for

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and

Cádiz Cádiz ( , , ) is a city in Spain and the capital of the Province of Cádiz in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula off the Atlantic Ocean separated fr ...

. He made one international appearance for

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in 1969.

Later life and death

He died on 4 January 2016, at the age of 68.

References

External links

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National team data
at BDFutbol
CiberChe stats and bio

Stats and bio at Cadistas1910
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrachina, Fernando 1947 births 2016 deaths Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Granada Men's association football central defenders La Liga players Segunda División players Granada CF footballers Valencia CF players Cádiz CF players Spain men's under-23 international footballers Spain men's international footballers 20th-century Spanish sportsmen