Adolfo Bolea

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

Adolfo Bolea

Personal information
Full name	Adolfo Bolea Sanz
Date of birth	(1933-03-24) 24 March 1933
Place of birth	El Poble-sec, Spain
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1951–1953	Sant Andreu	56	(21)
1953–1955	Español	6	(3)
1953–1954	→ Tenerife (loan)	27	(14)
1954–1955	→ Sabadell (loan)	17	(4)
1955–1956	España	29	(20)
1956–1964	Cádiz	180	(56)
1964–1966	Balón Cádiz
Total		315	(118)
Managerial career
1971–1972	Cádiz
1976	Cádiz
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adolfo Bolea Sanz (born 24 March 1933) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward.

In a career spent mostly with Cádiz, he played 309 games and scored 115 times in Segunda División, adding three in six in La Liga for Español. He also managed Cádiz in two brief spells.

Football career

Born in El Poble-sec, Barcelona, Catalonia, Bolea began his career at UE Sant Andreu in 1951–52, making his debut on 30 September 1951 in an 8–0 Segunda División loss at Racing Ferrol. In his fourth game, on 21 October, he scored his first goal, equalising for a 1–1 home draw against CA Osasuna; he finished the season with eight goals, hitting 13 in 29 appearances the following campaign – including his first hat-trick, in a 4–1 home win over Caudal Deportivo – as the team ranked in eighth place and suffered administrative relegation.

Bolea was then sold to RCD Español of La Liga, but loaned back down to CD Tenerife. He scored a hat-trick in a 6–1 win over UD Melilla on 18 October 1953, and added four more on 20 December 1953 in an 8–0 undoing of RCD Mallorca. He was then lent to Sabadell in the 1954 summer, before returning in November for his only experience outside the second tier; he netted three times in six top-flight matches, including on 6 February 1955 when he struck twice in a 4–1 win against Hércules CF at the Sarrià Stadium.

At the end of the season, Bolea returned to the second division where he would remain until his professional retirement at the age of 31, signing for UD España of Tangier during the Spanish protectorate in Morocco. On 11 September 1955, in his very first appearance, he scored a hat-trick in a 4–2 win over Granada CF, and finished his first year with a career-best 20 goals from 29 games over, but the club was dissolved when the city returned to Moroccan rule.

Bolea then crossed the Straits of Gibraltar and passed the final eight seasons of his career in the same league for Cádiz CF, whom he later managed in the middle of 1971–72 and again for the second half of the campaign four years later.

External links

• Adolfo Bolea profile at BDFutbol
• Adolfo Bolea manager profile at BDFutbol
• Stats and bio at Cadistas1910 (Spanish)