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José Augustin Gallego (8 April 1923 – 17 September 2006) was a Spanish footballer who played as an outside forward for various clubs in the English Football League in the 1940s and 1950s. ==Football career== Gallego was born in Errenteria in the Basque Country in Spain. His father was a Spanish government worker who fled to England as a refugee in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Gallego arrived in England as a 14-year-old along with his three sisters and his younger brother, Antonio, who was also to have a short career as a professional footballer, as a goalkeeper with Norwich City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/norwich/norwich.html )〕 The family settled in Cambridge where José first played football with Cambridge City in 1942. In 1945, he was joined by Antonio in the Cambridge City side, now coached by former West Ham United, Southampton and England forward Vic Watson and in 1946 the team won the East Anglian Cup.〔 In January 1947, Gallego moved to Brentford of the Football League Second Division, where he stayed for a season and a half, making six league appearances.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/brentford/brentford.html )〕 In the summer of 1948, he moved to fellow Second Division club, Southampton. Although he scored on his debut for the reserve team, he made only one first-team appearance when he replaced the injured Wilf Grant at outside-left in a 3–0 defeat at Barnsley on 2 October 1948. Gallego was the seventh player that season to have worn the No. 11 shirt, before Grant returned for the next match. Although his debut was described as "most promising" and "deserving another try", Gallego suffered from a cracked ankle after being given a "hard time" by the Barnsley full-back and decided to quit full-time professional football.〔 Southampton tried to sell him to Exeter City in the summer of 1950, but Gallego refused and instead joined Colchester United along with his Southampton team–mate Bill Rochford.〔 Colchester were embarking on their first season in the Football League, but Gallego only made four appearances before dropping down to non-league football.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/colchester/colchester.html )〕 He then enjoyed six seasons of part-time football back at Cambridge, this time with Cambridge United〔 and played minor league football until after his 50th birthday.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「José Gallego (footballer, born 1923)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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