César Rodríguez Álvarez

César Rodríguez Álvarez ( born June 29, 1920 in León, Spain, † March 1, 1995 in Barcelona), also known as César Rodríguez or just César, was a Spanish footballer.

With 232 goals in 351 games, he was until March 2012, the scorer of FC Barcelona. Then he was overtaken by the Argentine Lionel Messi. Only three players Telmo Zarra and Hugo Sánchez and Alfredo Di Stéfano are in the list of leading scorer in the Primera División in front of him.

Career

Player

In his youth, César played for SEU de León. In 1939 he already went to FC Barcelona, was there but due to his military service is not used and was seconded to Granada. There he made ​​his professional debut for FC Granada and helped the club in 1941 as Master of the Segunda División in the first division ascend. In the season 1941/42, he was with 23 goals in 24 games the second most successful shooter in the league, including César Rodríguez scored the 7:3 against CD Castellón 6 goals in a game.

In 1942 he returned to FC Barcelona. During his time at Barça, he won the Spanish championship 5 times. In 1954 he left Barcelona, leaving his career at FC Perpignan ( 1955-1957 ) and FC Elche ( 1957-1960 ) bar. In the time in which he played in Elche, he helped the club within two years from the Tercera División in the Primera División ascend. His last season in Elche, he was hired as player-coach.

National

In the Spanish national team, he came from 1945 to 1952 and took 12 times to use without having to be used, at the 1950 World Championships in part. Between 1943 and 1954 he played 10 times for the Catalan football team.

Coach

After his success at FC Elche, he took over Real Zaragoza in 1960, which still eleventh in the Spanish La Liga were in the preseason. César led Zaragoza in his first year to third place. In the second and third year he was with Zaragoza fourth or fifth. In 1963 he returned as coach for FC Barcelona back, but was unable to repeat his success as a player there and left Barça already after one year. Later he trained yet RCD Mallorca, Real Betis, and Real Zaragoza again.

Achievements

• Top scorer in La Liga: 1949
• Spanish Champion: 1945, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953
• Generalísimo Cup: 1951, 1952
• Copa Latina: 1949, 1952
• Copa de Oro Argentina: 1945
• Copa Eva Duarte: 1948, 1952, 1953
• Participation in the 1950 World Cup (no use )

Others

His two- year older brother Ricardo was also a football player and played for FC Barcelona and Cultural Leonesa a long time together with César.