Adolfo Acosta
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| Nationality | Spanish |
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| Sport | 5-a-side football |
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Adolfo Samuel Acosta Rodriguez (born 19 May 1981) is a 5-a-side football player from Spain. Playing for the Spanish national team, he won a pair of bronze medals at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Competing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, his team finished just out of medal contention in fourth place overall. Outside of football, he is on the Executive Board and is a member of the General Assembly for the Federación Española de Deportes para Ciegos (FEDC).
Acosta was born 19 May 1981 in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. He is a B1 type sportsperson. He has had problems with his eyesight since birth. In 2012, he was living in Madrid. In 2007, Acosta was one of the finalists for the best sportsperson with a disability in Las Palmas. In November 2013, following the announcement of a partnership between Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and FEDC, Acosta and another person affiliated with the Spanish 5-a-side team gave away with a football signed by all the members of the national team. In 2013, he was awarded the bronze Real Orden al Mérito Deportivo. In December 2013, he attended an event marking Spanish insurance company Santa Lucía Seguros becoming a sponsor of the Spanish Paralympic Committee, and consequently Plan ADOP which funds high performance Spanish disability sport competitors. He chose to attend the event because he wanted to show support for this type of sponsorship.
Acosta is on the Executive Board and is a member of the General Assembly for the Federación Española de Deportes para Ciegos (FEDC), which is the Spanish national governing body for blind sport. He was elected to the Executive Board in July 2010.
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