Borja Eduardo Criado Malagarriga (born 16 April 1982) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Borja Eduardo Criado Malagarriga | ||
| Date of birth | 16 April 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Barcelona, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Europa | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2001 | Europa | ||
| 2001–2004 | Valencia B | 95 | (12) |
| 2002–2003 | Valencia | 3 | (0) |
| 2004–2006 | Espanyol B | 21 | (1) |
| 2006–2007 | Ciudad Murcia | 15 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Granada 74 | 13 | (1) |
| Total | 147 | (14) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career edit
Criado was born in Barcelona, Catalonia. After signing in 2001 with Valencia CF from CE Europa in his native city, he spent the vast majority of his three-year spell with the former's reserves, appearing three times in La Liga for the first team precisely in the season where they failed to win the national championship during his stay; Rafael Benítez was in charge on his league debut on 1 December 2002, a 0–0 away draw against Deportivo Alavés (three minutes played).[1][2]
In 2004, Criado joined another reserve team and also in the Segunda División B, RCD Espanyol B, suffering relegation in his first season. Subsequently, he moved to Segunda División with Ciudad de Murcia,[3] appearing rarely (15 matches out of 42, no goals) in a near promotion to the top flight.[4]
Criado was one of the players that remained with the club after it was relocated to Granada and renamed Granada 74 CF. In early January 2008, although initially acquitted by the Royal Spanish Football Federation's Competition Committee and Appeal Committee, he received a two-year ban for having tested positive for Finasteride in the previous year, whilst a Ciudad Murcia player. Since 2001, the player had been fighting against baldness with a product which contained the substance, interrupted the treatment for two years upon improving on his condition, then resumed it in 2005, the year when Finasteride was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency[5] due to the fact it could be used to mask other drugs, as steroids.[6]
Upon appeal, Criado's sentence was reduced to nine months[7] then three, but he eventually chose to retire after losing all motivation, aged just 26.[8] Subsequently, he worked as a notary.[9][10]
References edit
- ^ Llamas, Fernando (1 December 2002). "Alavés y Valencia pierden la brújula" [Alavés and Valencia lose their ways]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^ "El Valencia gana a domicilio en el Sánchez Pizjuan" [Valencia win at the Sánchez Pizjuan]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 21 June 2003. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- ^ "Borja Criado, último refuerzo" [Borja Criado, last addition]. El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). 4 August 2006. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ Cudeiro, Juan Luis (29 September 2012). "Las etiquetas de Oltra" [Oltra's labels]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ Gómez Matallanas, Javier (17 January 2008). "Dos años de sanción para Borja Criado... ¡por calvo!" [Two year-ban for Borja Criado... for being bald!]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ "Spanish footballer banned for hair-loss drug". Stop Hair Loss Now. January 2008. Archived from the original on 19 December 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ Meana, Antón (25 April 2008). "Reducen de 2 años a 9 meses la sanción de Borja Criado por dopaje" [Borja Criado's doping sanction reduced from 2 years to 9 months]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ Cordera, Santiago (16 October 2008). "Borja Criado deja el fútbol por una injusta sanción: "No vuelvo porque he perdido la ilusión"" [Borja Criado quits football due to unfair punishment: "I won't return because i have lost the hunger]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ Méndez, Rafael (2 May 2014). "El futbolista notario" [The notary footballer]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ Lidón, Inma (2 November 2015). "Notario...y campeón de Europa" [Notary...and European champion]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 August 2022.
External links edit
- Borja Criado at BDFutbol