Clemente Fernández López

Clemente

Personal information
Full name	Clemente Fernández López
Date of birth	(1919-11-23)23 November 1919
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Date of death
Place of death	Madrid, Spain
Position(s)	Right back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1939–1940	Betis San Isidro
1940–1942	Deportivo Castilla
1942–1952	Real Madrid	109	(0)
1943–1944	→ Hércules (loan)
1952–1953	Deportivo La Coruña	10	(0)
International career
1948–1949	Spain	3	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Fernández and the second or maternal family name is López.

Clemente Fernández López (23 November 1919 – 17 July 1996), known simply as Clemente, was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a right back.

Club career

Having begun his career as a midfielder, Clemente joined hometown club Real Madrid in 1942 from local amateurs CD Deportivo Castilla, playing in only four La Liga games in his first season. After one year on loan at Hércules CF he returned to the Merengues, but appeared in just seven league matches during the campaign.

Of the following seven seasons, Clemente managed to be regularly played in four of them, winning three major titles including two Copa del Rey trophies. In 1952, after 144 official games with Real Madrid, he signed for fellow league side Deportivo de La Coruña, retiring at the end of the campaign at the age of 33.

International career

Clemente gained three caps for Spain, in slightly less than one year. His debut came on 21 March 1948 in a 2–0 friendly win with Portugal, in Madrid.

Honours

• Copa del Rey: 1946, 1947
• Copa Eva Duarte: 1946

External links

• Clemente profile at BDFutbol
• National team data (Spanish)
• Clemente Fernández López at National-Football-Teams.com
• Spain stats at Eu-Football