Football is so great that its influence does not stay on the grass or in the stands. In his long history, he hides legends, secrets and gestures that have influenced society, politics or the future of a country. It is much more than a sport. It is so great that neither the history, nor the politics, not even the kings have managed to escape from it. And neither has the Spanish street. Almost all the autonomous communities of our country have some road, park or place dedicated to a footballer or a team.
According to the blogdefutbol words There are almost a hundred distributed throughout the country. The palm is carried by Madrid, with three dozens of places, followed by Andalusia, with about twenty. There are also these streets and soccer roundabouts in the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, in Murcia, in Valencia, in Catalonia, in Castilla, in Galicia, in Extremadura, in Aragon, in Asturias, in Cantabria and in the Basque Country.
The Spanish street has a wide payroll of soccer players distributed throughout the national territory and, as a curious fact, a referee, José Emilio Guruceta, in Roquetas, and a woman, Alicia Fuentes (27/4/1978), which triumphed with Atlético Málaga and in Totalán (Málaga), were also paid in this list.
Ricardo Zamora, the King of the Street
The most repeated name in the Spanish street football ands of Ricardo Zamora. The former international goalkeeper, who played in Barcelona, Real Madrid and Espanyol, It has up to 11 streets, squares and passages in different towns and cities. Nor does José Antonio Camacho fall short, with six (all in Murcia).
The list also appears club founders (Joan Gamper, from Barça; Juan Padrós, from Madrid; Adolf Vázquez Humasqué, Del Mallorca) as well as size players From Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ladislao Kubala, Luis Suárez, Iker Casillas, Andrés Iniesta or Johan Cruyff.
In Ambroz, Granada, there are streets to Di Stéfano, Kubala and Luis Suarez. Paco Gento It also has its street in El Astillero, province of Cantabria, and Juanito, in Fuenguirola.
The street Santiago Bernabéu It is located on the corner of the Paseo de la Castellana 134 and the Paseo de la Habana 13. It is 200 meters long, the same distance that separates it from the White Stadium. In 2010, the Vicálvaro Board He approved the name of Ferenc Puskas to one of the new streets of the El Cañaveral neighborhood, which limits to the east with La Cañada Real and to the north with the municipality of Coslada. Puskas street, 1.4 kilometers, crosses an illustrious cyclist like Luis Ocaña.
From Real Madrid to Betis
In the capital The streets of Real Madrid and Atlético They do corner in the Carabanchel district. Rayo Vallecano street, For its part, it is in the District of Vallecas with its sports city. Also perpendicular to Real Madrid Street is Real Betis Street. This received its name as well as its football companions, in 1961.
In Barcelona, Joan Gamper’s Carrer is only three blocks from Camp Nou. And Josep Samitier’s is close to the Barca Stadium. The street has not yet been formalized to Kubala, which does have a plaque in Ambroz (Granada).
The heroes of “La Roja”
Móstoles is the perfect case of recognition to the favorite child. Champion of Europe and the World, the Madrid town was one of the first to remember football when expanding its street with the inauguration of the Iker Casillas plate. And with the same motivation the neighbors of Fuentealbilla honor their most illustrious descendant. Andrés Iniesta.
Another hero of Johannesburg, nothing less than the coach, Vicente del Bosque, has its street in Boadilla del Monte. Your predecessor Luis Aragonés also gives name to Avenida that gives access to the new Stadium of Atlético de Madrid, in the Las Musas neighborhood. In another neighborhood, that of Hortaleza, the wise man has a municipal sports center with his name.
Also other municipalities that have not wanted to honor only a star but to the collective. Zaragoza and Mairena de Aljarafe (Seville) have opened in recent years roundabouts with names Spanish team and world championsrespectively. Real Madrid Champions also deserve a tribute And so the Murcian municipality of Blanca decided. There Madridism is lived very special, beyond the name of the people refer to the color of the Madrid shirt. Since July 18, 2016, Blanca has a street where they would like to live all the Madridists: “The eleventh.”
But there are also streets that remember the saddest face of football. Proof of this is the street Antonio Puerta, stuck to Sánchez Pizjuán whose lawn saw him die.
Also in honor of the delivery with which he served his Sporting de Gijón the Asturian city granted To Manuel Preciado the honor that his name looks in a street next to the El Molinón stadium.
Bilbao It also worships Pichichi and Telmo Zarra, His two most legendary scorers with two ways with San Mamés.
One of the last ones who see the light is that of the Malaga football player Nita Carmona, the pioneer who bandaged her breasts to impersonate men to play a sport vetoed women. A city council commission approved it after the people’s response to a request from Change (exceeded 35,000 signatures).
Ana Carmona, better known by ‘Belelet’ for having to transvestment to be able to play football at the beginning of the 20th century, will have a street with its name in Malaga thanks to this popular request that seeks recognition to this pioneer and the dissemination of its history to future generations. The Consistory’s Culture Area reported in 2023 that it had an assigned street next to the San Miguel cemetery, in the Olletas sector of the Central District.