Borja Criado
| 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 | |||
Template:Spanish name 2 Borja Eduardo Criado Malagarriga (born 16 April 1982) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward.
Football career
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 Che's reserves, appearing three times in La Liga for the club, precisely in the season where it failed to win the national championship during his stay; Rafael Benítez was in charge in 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 third division, RCD Espanyol B, suffering relegation in his first season. Subsequently he moved to the second level with Ciudad de Murcia, appearing rarely (15 games out of 42, no goals) as the club nearly promoted to the top flight.
Criado was one of the players that renamed with his team 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[3] due to the fact it could be used to mask other drugs, as steroids.[4]
Upon appeal, Criado's sentence was reduced to nine months,[5] then three, but he eventually chose to retire after losing all motivation, aged just 26.[6]
References
- ^ Alavés y Valencia pierden la brújula (Alavés and Valencia lose their ways); El Mundo, 1 December 2002 Template:Es icon
- ^ "El Valencia gana a domicilio en el Sánchez Pizjuan" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 21 June 2003. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ Dos años de sanción para Borja Criado... ¡por calvo! (Two year-ban for Borja Criado... for being bald!); Marca, 17 January 2008 Template:Es icon
- ^ Spanish footballer banned for hair-loss drug; Stop Hair Loss Now, January 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, 25 April 2008 Template:Es icon
- ^ 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, 16 October 2008 Template:Es icon
External links
- Borja Criado at BDFutbol
- Borja Criado at ESPN FC
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Barcelona
- Spanish footballers
- Catalan footballers
- Association football forwards
- La Liga players
- Segunda División players
- Segunda División B players
- CE Europa footballers
- Valencia CF Mestalla footballers
- Valencia CF players
- RCD Espanyol B footballers
- Ciudad de Murcia footballers
- Granada 74 CF footballers
- Doping cases in association football
- Spanish sportspeople in doping cases