He Cadiz announced this Monday that the goalkeeper Alberto
Cifuentes has decided to retire and will become part of the club's organizational chart, after having debuted this season in First
Division with 41 years and beat the record of the oldest player to do so.
Cifuentes, who last Sunday was a substitute goalkeeper in the game Cadiz-Granada (1-1), has played 209 games in the six seasons that he has remained in the Cadiz and debuted in The league
Santander on the second day of this campaign against Huesca, with 41 years and 114 days.
This figure put him well above the 34 years with which the goalkeeper debuted Armando
Ribeiro, also goalkeeper of Cadiz in the 2005-06 season, and the midfielder Vincent
Brown, what did he do with Xerez
Sports in 2009-10.
Third oldest player to play in First
Alberto Cifuentes placeholder imageFurthermore, he became the third oldest player to have played in the First Division, only behind Harry
Lowe, who did so with 48 years and 226 days, in 1935, with a Real
Society of which he was also a coach; and also the goalkeeper Richard, with 41 years and 153 days.
In his long career, which has spanned twenty-one seasons as a professional, the Albacete goalkeeper also spent between Segunda and Second
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Sisters, Majorca, City
of
Murcia, Lightning
Vallecano, Salamanca, Real
Murcia Y Lorca.
On the other hand, the Cadiz announced on Monday the termination of the forward's contract David
Querol, who leaves the yellow club after having played on loan last season in the Albacete
Football.