Vicente Asensi

Vicente Asensi
Personal information
Full name Vicente Asensi Albentosa
Date of birth (1919-01-28)28 January 1919
Place of birth L'Alcúdia de Crespins, Spain
Date of death 2 September 2000(2000-09-02) (aged 81)
Place of death Valencia, Spain
Playing position Left winger / Defender
Youth career
Canalense
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1939–1940 Burjassot
1940–1954 Valencia 275 (33)
1954–1955 Mestalla
National team
1945–1950 Spain 6 (0)
Teams managed
1958–1959 Onda
1962 Castellón

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


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

Vicente Asensi Albentosa (28 January 1919 - 2 September 2000) was a football player who spent all his career at Valencia CF where he played 308 games and scored 33 goals. Together with Epi, Amadeo, Mundo and Gorostiza they made up one of the best attacks in the 1940s. He played as left winger during most of his career but went backwards as he grew older and ended up playing as a defender. He gained six caps with the Spain national football team.

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