José Gálvez Estévez

Pepe Gálvez

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Personal information
Full name	José Gálvez Estévez
Date of birth	(1974-08-03) 3 August 1974
Place of birth	Calvià, Spain
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Mallorca
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1993	Mallorca	59	(18)
1993–1998	Valencia	88	(20)
1997–1998	→ Mallorca (loan)	32	(5)
1998–2002	Betis	58	(9)
2001–2002	→ Burgos (loan)	26	(2)
2002	Platges de Calvià
2003	Calvià
Total		263	(54)
International career
1991	Spain U17	3	(1)
1991–1993	Spain U18	11	(7)
1993–1995	Spain U21	15	(7)
Managerial career
2005–2008	Calvià (youth)
2009–2010	Balearic U18
2015–2016	Mallorca
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

José 'Pepe' Gálvez Estévez (born 3 August 1974 in Calvià, Majorca, Balearic Islands) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a striker, and a current manager.

Football career

At the age of only 17, Gálvez became RCD Mallorca's youngest player ever to appear in a La Liga match, his first chance being awarded by manager Lorenzo Serra Ferrer. With three goals in 22 games from the player, the Balearic Islands club would eventually suffer top flight relegation in 1992.

After a solid 1992–93 season, even though Mallorca failed to regain its lost status, Gálvez was bought by Valencia CF, where he would be used intermittently. In his third year, as the Che finished in second position four points behind champions Atlético Madrid, he scored 11 goals in 28 matches (27 starts), only being surpassed in the squad by Serb Predrag Mijatović's 28.

Injury prevented Gálvez from taking part in the 1996 Summer Olympics tournament, and he could never reproduce his previous form in the following campaigns, with Valencia also loaning him to Mallorca for one 1/2 years. In 1998 he signed for Real Betis, being relegated from the top division in 2000 and immediately promoting back, but only netting four times combined for the Andalusians.

After one season in Segunda División with Burgos CF, ending in relegation, Gálvez retired from professional football at only 27, playing one more year in amateur football in his native region.

Honours

Spain U17

• FIFA U-17 World Cup: Runner-up 1991

Spain U21

• UEFA European Under-21 Championship: Third-place 1994

External links

• José Gálvez profile at BDFutbol
• CiberChe biography and stats (Spanish)
• Betisweb stats and bio (Spanish)
• José Gálvez – FIFA competition record