Ramón Polo

Ramón Polo
Personal information
Full name	Ramón Polo Pardo
Date of birth	13 April 1901
Place of birth	Corcubión, Spain
Date of death	19 June 1966 (aged 65)
Place of death	?, Spain
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Deportivo Guardés
Senior career*
Years	Team
?–1923	Fortuna Vigo
1923–1935	Celta
International career
1927	Spain B
1925–1933	Spain
Managerial career
1951–1952	SG Lucense
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ramón Polo Pardo (13 April 1901 – 19 June 1966) was a Spanish footballer who played as an outside forward, and was a former manager.

Club career

Born in Corcubión, Province of A Coruña, Polo played his entire professional career with Celta de Vigo also in his native Galicia, after Real Fortuna Football Club merged with Real Vigo Sporting Club in 1923. He competed with the club in Segunda División and Tercera División, scoring an all-time best 159 goals in 259 games all competitions comprised even though he was not a pure striker.

Having studied in his youth to be a priest, Polo was known in Argentina as the black shadow of Américo Tesoriere, as he was the only European player capable of scoring against him. In a game against Deportivo de La Coruña, he converted a penalty kick with a broken fibula.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Polo retired in 1935 at the age of 34, going on to manage SG Lucense in the second level in the early 50s. He died on 19 June 1966, aged 65.

International career

Polo gained two caps for Spain during seven years, in as many friendlies. His debut took place on 4 October 1925, in a 1–0 win over Hungary in Budapest.^[5]

References

^ "Ramón Polo" (in Spanish). Yo Jugué en el Celta. 12 May 2008. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
^ "El Celta coloca a un corcubionés entre los mejores de su historia" [Corcubión's own ranks amongst best-ever at Celta] (in Spanish). La Voz de Galicia. 12 August 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
^ "Polo: El máximo realizador de la historia del Celta" [Polo: Celta's all-time goal scorer.] (in Spanish). Fame Celeste. 13 November 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
^ "1923---1929" (in Spanish). Historia R.C. Celta de Vigo. 8 July 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
^ "Ayer, en Budapest, el once de España también salió victorioso, por 1 goal a 0, dlel [sic] primer encuentro con los húngaros, que fué de una violencia extraordinaria" [Yesterday, in Budapest, Spain's eleven also emerged victorious, by 1 goal to 0, of first match with Hungarians, marked by extraordinary violence] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 5 October 1925. Retrieved 23 March 2016.