Patxi Ferreira

Patxi Ferreira
Personal information
Full name Francisco Ferreira Colmenero
Date of birth (1967-05-22) 22 May 1967
Place of birth Saucelle, Spain
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Centre back
Youth career
Deusto
1983–1984 Athletic Bilbao
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1987 Bilbao Athletic 73 (6)
1985–1989 Athletic Bilbao 76 (10)
1989–1995 Atlético Madrid 118 (4)
1993–1994 → Sevilla (loan) 25 (1)
1995–1997 Valencia 60 (4)
1997–2000 Athletic Bilbao 67 (3)
2000–2001 Rayo Vallecano 12 (0)
Total 431 (28)
National team
1983 Spain U16 4 (0)
1984–1985 Spain U18 10 (0)
1985 Spain U19 1 (0)
1985 Spain U20 4 (0)
1986–1990 Spain U21 12 (0)
1988–1989 Spain 2 (0)

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


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

Francisco 'Patxi' Ferreira Colmenero (born 22 May 1967) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a central defender.

Club career

Ferreira was born in Saucelle, Province of Salamanca. During a steady professional career he represented, with equal individual success, Athletic Bilbao (two stints) Atlético Madrid, Sevilla FC and Valencia CF, retiring in 2001 at the age of 34 after a slow year with Rayo Vallecano – the Madrid outskirts team finished in 14th position, but he appeared in less than one third of the league games.

Ferreira amassed more than 400 official appearances during his 17-year senior career, 358 in La Liga alone, scoring 22 goals in the competition. His best individual season was 1987–88 as the 20-year-old netted six times in 35 matches to help the Basque to the fourth position; his only spell in Segunda División was with his first club's reserves Bilbao Athletic, in the mid-80s.

International career

Ferreira played twice for Spain in as many friendlies, the first being a 1–2 loss with Yugoslavia in Oviedo on 14 September 1988.[1]

Honours

Club

Athletic Bilbao
Atlético Madrid

Country

Spain U20

References

  1. ↑ 1–2: Adiós a la "flor"... (1–2: Farewell to the "flower"...); Mundo Deportivo, 15 September 1988 (Spanish)
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