Josete (footballer, born 1970)

José Manuel Tomás Valdovinos (born 12 March 1970), known as Josete, is a Spanish former footballer who played as a left back,[1][2] and later worked as a manager.[3]

Josete
Personal information
Full name José Manuel Tomás Valdovinos
Date of birth (1970-03-12) 12 March 1970
Place of birth Huesca, Spain
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Left back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1990 Telde 24 (0)
1990 Peralta 6 (0)
1990–1994 Rayo Vallecano 111 (6)
1994–1998 Real Betis 75 (1)
1998–2000 Deportivo Alavés 20 (0)
2001–2003 Lleida 31 (0)
Total 267 (7)
Managerial career
Binéfar
Almudévar
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Josete was born in Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon, but the left-footed defender[4] began his career with Telde in the Canary Islands. After brief spells there and with Peralta, he joined Rayo Vallecano in the Segunda División in late 1990. He made 36 appearances for the club during the 1991–92 season,[2] in which they finished as Segunda División runners-up and earned promotion to La Liga.[5] He continued to play a key role for the two top flight campaigns that followed,[2] in the second of which Rayo were relegated following a relegation playoff loss to Compostela.[6]

Josete was able to stay in the top division by joining Real Betis, where he was a regular in the starting lineup for two years, including featuring in their 1995–96 UEFA Cup campaign. In 1996–97 he played only nine matches, and the arrival of Luis Aragonés as head coach ahead of the following season made matters worse. Josete managed only two appearances, and left for Deportivo Alavés that summer. He played just twenty league matches in two and half seasons with Alavés,[2] before joining Lleida in January 2001.[1] Lleida were relegated from the second tier at the end of that season, and Josete stayed with the club in Segunda División B until retiring in 2003 at the age of 33.[2]

Retirement

After his retirement, Josete continued to live in Lleida, and began a brief coaching career, working with Binéfar in the Tercera División and Almudévar in the Regional Preferente de Aragón. He then left football, becoming an entrepreneur and opening a coffee shop.[3]

Honours

Rayo Vallecano

Real Betis

Career statistics
As of 29 May 2021[2]
Club Season League Cup Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Telde 1989–90 Segunda División B 240–––240
Peralta 1989–90 Tercera División 60–––60
Rayo Vallecano 1990–91 Segunda División 14030––170
1991–92 36340––403
1992–93 La Liga 36340––403
1993–94 25020–20290
Total 111613000201266
Real Betis 1994–95 La Liga 28040––320
1995–96 3602060–440
1996–97 9140––131
1997–98 200010–30
Total 7511007000921
Deportivo Alavés 1998–99 La Liga 15020––170
1999–2000 5000––50
2000–01 001000–10
Total 200300000230
Lleida 2000–01 Segunda División 1000––10
2001–02 Segunda División B 25020––270
2002–03 5020––70
Total 310400000350
Career total 267730070203067
1.^ Appearances in the 1993–94 La Liga relegation playoff
2.^ Appearances in the 1995–96 UEFA Cup
3.^ Appearance in the 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

References
  1. "Josete". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  2. "Josete". BDFutbol. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  3. "Entrevista a Josete (Estadio Deportivo)". BETISWEB. Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  4. "Josete". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  5. "Classification 2nd Division 1991-92". BDFutbol. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  6. "El Compostela asciende al cielo de la Primera" (PDF). Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
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