Eleuterio Santos

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

Eleuterio Santos

Personal information
Full name	Eleuterio Santos Brito
Date of birth	(1940-11-09)9 November 1940
Place of birth	Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Date of death
Place of death	Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Prosperidad
	Tarrasa
	Unión Tenerife
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1959–1963	Tenerife	62	(22)
1963–1971	Zaragoza	199	(54)
1971–1973	Tudelano
International career
1968	Spain	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eleuterio Santos Brito (9 November 1940 – 28 January 2008) was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder.

He spent the vast majority of his professional career with Real Zaragoza, appearing in 280 official games and scoring 96 goals.

Football career

Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Santos started playing with local CD Tenerife. In March 1963 he moved to Real Zaragoza, going on to spend nine of his ten seasons with the club in La Liga and being part of an attacking frontline dubbed Los Magníficos, which also featured Canário, Carlos Lapetra, Marcelino and Juan Manuel Villa.

Santos earned one cap for Spain, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–1 away draw against Sweden on 2 May 1968. He died in his hometown on 28 January 2008 at age 67, after a long battle with illness.

External links

• Eleuterio Santos profile at BDFutbol
• Eleuterio Santos at National-Football-Teams.com