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Luis Del Sol

Luis del Sol
Luis del Sol 1962.jpg
Del Sol in 1962
Personal information
Full name Luis del Sol Cascajares
Date of birth (1935-04-06) 6 April 1935 (age 81)
Place of birth Arcos de Jalón, Spain
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 12 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Youth career
Alegría
San Gerónimo
Retiro San Miguel
Andalucía
1951–1953 Betis
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1953–1959 Betis 101 (27)
1953–1954 Utrera (loan)
1960–1962 Real Madrid 55 (22)
1962–1970 Juventus 228 (20)
1970–1972 Roma 50 (4)
1972–1973 Betis 17 (0)
Total 451 (73)
National team
1959 Spain U21 1 (0)
1957–1959 Spain B 3 (0)
1960–1966 Spain 16 (3)
Teams managed
Carmona
Jerez Industrial
Betis (youth)
1986–1987 Betis
1990 Recreativo
2001 Betis
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Luis del Sol Cascajares (born 6 April 1935) is a Spanish retired football midfielder and manager.

He played in 112 La Liga games for Betis and Real Madrid combined (28 goals scored), winning five major titles with the latter. He later had brief spells as manager with the former club.

Del Sol represented Spain in two World Cups in the 1960s.

Del Sol was born in Arcos de Jalón, Soria, relocating with his family to Andalusia at age two months. In his country, he played for Real Betis and Real Madrid; with the former he was part of the squads that promoted to Segunda División (1954) and La Liga (1958), appearing in 40 games with the club in the latter category over the course of one 1/2 seasons and scoring six goals.

Signing with the Merengues in January 1960 for 6.5 million pesetas, del Sol netted a career-best 17 goals in his first full season, while not missing one single minute of action in his 29 appearances as his team won the national championship, after starting the season with the Intercontinental Cup triumph against C.A. Peñarol.

In the 1962 summer, aged 27, del Sol moved abroad and signed for Juventus FC. He remained one full decade in Italy, also playing two years with A.S. Roma, which he would captain as compatriot Joaquín Peiró before him.


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