Name: Antonio Manuel Martínez Morales
Country:
SpainClub: Valencia CF
Number: 5
Position: *SB
Side: LF/LS
Age: 26-27 years (19/10/1944)
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 77 kg
Attack: 70
Defence: 76
Balance: 83
Stamina: 84
Top Speed: 76
Acceleration: 73
Response: 77
Agility: 73
Dribble Accuracy: 72
Dribble Speed: 68
Short Pass Accuracy: 71
Short Pass Speed: 74
Long Pass Accuracy: 73
Long Pass Speed: 74
Shot Accuracy: 65
Shot Power: 82
Shot Technique: 65
Free Kick Accuracy: 63
Curling: 73
Header: 79
Jump: 76
Technique: 73
Aggression: 76
Mentality: 81
Goalkeeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 73
Injury Tolerance: A
Condition/Fitness: 7
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot Frequency: 6
Consistency: 6
Growth type: Standard
CARDS:
P04 - Darting Run
SPECIAL ABILITIES: Side
Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Attack-Minded
INFO:
"Offensively he is a very interesting footballer. The only thing that would be necessary to instill in him is that when we don't have the ball in our possession, we have to mark the opponent better." This is how Ladislao Kubala spoke back in the seventies when he was national coach and spoke of Antón, the Valencia left defender who was a regular in Kubala's line-ups. He talked about marking the opponent better, but Antón was a bit rebellious, a defender who liked to go on his own and acted according to his criteria adapted to the progress of the matches. "The one who taught me to play football has been Di Stéfano" said the player when the "blond arrow" coached Valencia. And it was true because Antón was considered a defender who cleared many balls but nothing more. Di Stéfano was refining his style, he taught him to play the ball, to go out with the balls controlled, to run the wing, in short, to know how to be on the field.
A defender of strong tackles. He was not satisfied with being in his position and liked to run the wing, dribble and cross over the opponent's goal. He was tough and in addition to having a good clearance, he was good with a header. natural left-footer, he started playing in the centre of defence, but gradually changed his position to left-back, where he would play the rest of his career and end up succeeding as a footballer
Tough, but noble, Antón ran down the flank with a more than remarkable pride and speed, with his socks always down. Far from technical delicacies, his thing was to give until the last minute of the game, destroying teammates and rivals. He played all 30 games of the championship as a starter without showing a hint of fatigue or lowering the level of his performances.
He was capped five times with the Spanish national team, and precisely in one of those games with Spain in Moscow, on May 30, 1971, he was seriously injured. He returned with renewed strength to keep his position until 1975 when, in his thirties, he went to Real Valladolid in the Second Division, where he played his last two seasons as a professional, participating in 49 games with the white and violet team. There he hung up his boots in 1977, after having played a total of 386 official matches in the elite of Spanish football.
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