{{short description|Spanish footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{family name hatnote|Badenes|Calduch|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox football biography | name = Manuel Badenes | image = | fullname= Manuel Badenes Calduch | birth_date= {{birth date|1928|10|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Castellón, Spain | death_date= {{death date and age|2007|11|26|1928|10|31|df=y}} | death_place = Valencia, Spain | height = 1.80 m | position = Striker | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Jari Jauja | youthyears2 = | youthclubs2 = Peña Ribalta | youthyears3 = 1944–1946 | youthclubs3 = Castellón | years1 = 1946–1947 | clubs1 = Castellón | caps1 = 11 | goals1 = 4 | years2 = 1947–1950 | clubs2 = Barcelona | caps2 = 14 | goals2 = 6 | years3 = 1949–1950 | clubs3 = → Zaragoza (loan) | caps3 = 24 | goals3 = 23 | years4 = 1950–1956 | clubs4 = Valencia | caps4 = 97 | goals4 = 90 | years5 = 1956–1958 | clubs5 = Valladolid | caps5 = 59 | goals5 = 35 | years6 = 1958–1960 | clubs6 = Sporting Gijón | caps6 = 21 | goals6 = 4 | years7 = 1960–1961 | clubs7 = Castellón | caps7 = 24 | goals7 = 11 | years8 = 1961–1962 | clubs8 = Oliva | caps8 = | goals8 = | totalcaps = 226 | totalgoals = 173 | nationalyears1 = 1955 | nationalteam1 = Spain B | nationalcaps1 = 2 | nationalgoals1 = 8 }}
'''Manuel Badenes Calduch''' (31 October 1928 – 26 November 2007) was a Spanish footballer, who played as a forward for clubs such as FC Barcelona and Valencia CF.
==Club career== Badenes started his career at CD Castellón. His first season at the club saw him score four goals in ten games which resulted in a move to Barcelona. He spent two season at the club, winning two La Liga titles before moving to Valencia. He scored 90 goals in 97 games at Valencia before moving to Real Valladolid, where he won the Pichichi trophy awarded to the top scorer in La Liga in 1958.
==International career== Badenes is the all-time top goal scorer of Spain B with 8 goals, and remarkably, he managed to achieve this feat having only two appearances for the team (a ratio of four goals per game), both at the 1953–58 Mediterranean Cup, netting four past Greece and four again against Egypt, to be crowned the tournament's top goal scorer.<ref name=bd>{{cite web|url=https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j9585.html|title=Badenes|publisher=bdfutbol.com|accessdate=1 June 2022}}</ref> However, despite his prolificness for the B team, he never managed to reach the main team.
==Club statistics== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! colspan=3 | Club performance ! colspan=2 | League
|- ! Season ! Club ! League ! Apps !! Goals
|- ! colspan=3 |Spain ! colspan=2 | League |- |1946–47||rowspan="1"|Castellón||rowspan="1"|La Liga||11||4 |- !colspan=3|Total !11||4 |- |1947–48||rowspan="2"|FC Barcelona||rowspan="2"|La Liga||13||6 |- |1948–49||1||0 |- !colspan=3|Total !14||6 |- |1950–51||rowspan="6"|Valencia CF||rowspan="6"|La Liga||21||20 |- |1951–52||24||18 |- |1952–53||19||16 |- |1953–54||6||4 |- |1954–55||16||22 |- |1955–56||11||10 |- !colspan=3|Total !97||90 |- |1956–57||rowspan="2"|Valladolid||rowspan="2"|La Liga||30||16 |- |1957–58||29||19 |- !colspan=3|Total !59||35 |- |1958–59||rowspan="1"|Sporting de Gijón||rowspan="1"|La Liga||21||4 |- !colspan=3|Total !21||4 |- ! rowspan=1 | Total ! colspan=2 | Spain !|202||139 |}
==International goals== :''Spain B score listed first, score column indicates score after each Badenes goal.''
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |+ List of international goals scored by Manuel Badenes<ref name=bd/> |- !scope=col|No. !scope=col|Date !scope=col|Venue !scope=col|Opponent !scope=col|Score !scope=col|Result !scope=col|Competition |- !scope=row style=text-align:center|1 | rowspan="4" | 13 March 1955 || rowspan="8" | Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, Spain || rowspan="4" | {{fb|GRE|old}} || align=center | '''1'''–0 || rowspan="4" align=center| 7–1|| rowspan="8" | 1953–58 Mediterranean Cup |- !scope=row style=text-align:center|2 |align=center|'''3'''–0 |- !scope=row style=text-align:center|3 |align=center|'''4'''–1 |- !scope=row style=text-align:center|4 |align=center|'''5'''–1 |- !scope=row style=text-align:center|5 | rowspan="4" | 27 November 1955 || rowspan="4" | {{fb|EGY|1922}} || align=center | '''2'''–1 || rowspan="4" align=center| 5–1 |- !scope=row style=text-align:center|6 |align=center|'''3'''–1 |- !scope=row style=text-align:center|7 |align=center|'''4'''–1 |- !scope=row style=text-align:center|8 |align=center|'''5'''–1 |- |}
==Honours== ===Club=== ;FC Barcelona *Spanish League: 1947–48, 1948–49 *Latin Cup: 1949 *Copa Eva Duarte: 1948
;Valencia CF *Spanish Cup: 1953–54
===International=== ;Spain B *Mediterranean Cup: 1953-58
===Individual=== ;Real Valladolid *Pichichi Trophy: 1957–58 *Top goalscorer of the 1953-58 Mediterranean Cup with 8 goals
===Records=== *All-time top goal scorer of Spain B with 8 goals *All-time top goal scorer of the Mediterranean Cup with 8 goals
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{BDFutbol|9585}} * [http://www.ciberche.net/histoche/jugadores/19?pid=419&show_all=1 Valencia CF profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003095126/http://www.ciberche.net/histoche/jugadores/19?pid=419&show_all=1 |date=3 October 2018 }} {{in lang|es}} * [http://www.veteransfcbarcelona.cat/database/index.php?option=com_hotproperty&task=view&id=376&Itemid=27 FC Barcelona profile]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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