.jpg) Zoco in 1971 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ignacio Zoco Esparza | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 31 July 1939 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Garde, Spain | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 28 September 2015 (aged 76) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Madrid, Spain | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| Esperanza | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1957–1959 | Oberena | |||||||||||||
| 1959–1962 | Osasuna | 69 | (4) | |||||||||||
| 1959 | → Iruña (loan) | |||||||||||||
| 1962–1974 | Real Madrid | 318 | (8) | |||||||||||
| Total | 387 | (12) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1961 | Spain B | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1961–1969 | Spain | 25 | (1) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Ignacio Zoco Esparza (31 July 1939 – 28 September 2015) was a Spanish footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
He spent 12 years of his professional career with Real Madrid, appearing in 434 competitive matches and winning ten major titles.[1]
Zoco played more than 20 times with Spain, winning the 1964 European Nations' Cup and also representing the nation at the 1966 World Cup.
- ^ Florentino: «Zoco representa los valores de nuestro club» (Florentino: "Zoco represents the values of our club"); La Razón, 28 September 2015 (in Spanish)