Pierita Explained

Pierita
Fullname:Andrés Domínguez Candal
Birth Date:16 December 1918
Birth Place:Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Death Place:Elche, Spain
Position:Forward
Years1:1939–1942
Years2:1942–1944
Years3:1945–1947
Years4:1947–1950
Years5:1950–1952
Years6:1952–1953
Years7:1953–1954
Years8:1958–1959
Clubs8:UD Cartagenera
Years9:1959–1960

Andrés Domínguez Candal aka Pierita (December 16, 1918 - October 24, 1978) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward.[1]

Football career

Pierita was a historic Elche CF player in the 1940s and 1950s and is the top scorer in the history of Elche with 123 goals in over 200 league games.[2] These registers are managed at three different times in Elche in the second and third level. In Elche he achieved two promotions to the second level in seasons 1940–41 and 1948–49. His real reward came with the CD Alcoyano whom he played in La Liga in the 1950–51 season. He also played for the Orihuela Deportiva CF on the second level and CD Málaga in the second and third level.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Domínguez Candal, Andrés "Pierita". elche.me/. Universidad Miguel Hernández. 28 January 2015.
  2. News: Palmarés del Elche CF. Honors of Elche CF. elchecf.es. es. 21 May 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120510083715/http://www.elchecf.es/palmares. 10 May 2012.