Iván Salvador

Iban Salvador
Personal information
Full name Iván Salvador Edú
Date of birth (1995-12-11) 11 December 1995
Place of birth L'Hospitalet, Spain
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Valladolid
Number 28
Youth career
2002–2013 Hospitalet
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2014 Hospitalet 20 (5)
2014–2016 Valencia B 55 (8)
2016– Valladolid 9 (1)
National team‡
2015– Equatorial Guinea 13 (2)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 October 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 June 2016
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Salvador and the second or maternal family name is Edú.

Iván Salvador Edú (born 11 December 1995), known in Spain as Iban Salvador[1] and in Africa as Iban Edú,[2] is an Equatoguinean professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Valladolid as a forward.

He began his career at Hospitalet, and after his first season was signed by Valencia.

A full international for Equatorial Guinea since 2015, Ibán was part of their squad which came fourth at that year's Africa Cup of Nations.

Club career

Born in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Salvador joined hometown club CE L'Hospitalet's youth setup in 2002, aged six. He made his senior debut on 27 October 2013, coming on as a second-half substitute for Enrique Carreño in a 3–2 home win against Villarreal CF B for the Segunda División B championship.[3]

Salvador scored his first goal on 10 November, netting the last in a 5–0 away routing over AE Prat.[4] He finished the campaign with 26 appearances and five goals, as his side missed out on promotion in the play-offs.

On 4 August 2014 Salvador joined Valencia CF, being assigned to the reserves also in the third level.[1] On 20 July 2016, he signed a three-year contract with Segunda División side Real Valladolid, with Valencia retaining a buy-back clause.[5]

Salvador made his professional debut on 21 August 2016, starting in a 1–0 Segunda División home win against Real Oviedo.[6] He scored his first goal in the category on 2 October, netting his team's second in a 2–3 away loss against Levante UD.

International career

Ibán's maternal grandfather was born in the then Spanish Guinea and arrived in Catalonia in the 1960s along with his Galician wife,[7] making him eligible to both Equatorial Guinea and Spain.

On 7 January 2015, Ibán made his full international debut for Equatorial Guinea, starting in a 1–1 friendly draw against Cape Verde.[8] A day later, he was included in Esteban Becker's 23-man list for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations held in the country,[9] and made his debut in the competition on the 17th, starting in a 1–1 draw against Congo.[10]

Ibán scored his first goal for Equatorial Guinea in a 2–0 defeat of Gabon, which put the nation into the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations for the second time in its history,[11] eventually finishing in fourth place.

Career statistics

International

As of 12 June 2016[12]
Equatorial Guinea
YearAppsGoals
2015112
201620
Total132

International goals

Score and Result shows Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 25 January 2015 Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea  Gabon
2–0
2–0
2015 African Cup of Nations
2. 29 March 2015 Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Ivory Coast  Ivory Coast
1–0
1–1
Friendly

References

  1. 1 2 "Iban Salvador refuerza la delantera del Mestalla" [Iban Salvador bolsters Valencia Mestalla's attack] (in Spanish). Superdeporte. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "CAF - Competitions - Orange Africa Cup of Nations - Equatorial Guinea 2015 - Team Details - Player Details". CAF. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "El Villarreal B no aguantó el acoso de L'Hospitalet y perdió el liderato (3–2)" [Villarreal B could not support L'Hospitalet's chase and lost the leadership (3–2)] (in Spanish). Castellón Información. 27 October 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "El CE L'Hospitalet gana por goleada a l'AE Prat" [CE L'Hospitalet defeats AE Prat with a routing] (in Spanish). El Periódico de L'Hospitalet. 11 November 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Iban Salvador, hasta 2019" [Iban Salvador, until 2019] (in Spanish). Real Valladolid. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "El Valladolid debuta con victoria ante un Oviedo muy peleón" [Valladolid debut with victory against a very combative Oviedo] (in Spanish). Marca. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "De Bellvitge a lnzalang'" [From Bellvitge to the `Nzalang´] (in Catalan). L'Esportiu. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "Hopeful tie of the Nzalang against Cape Verde". Equatorial Guinea. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  9. ↑ "2015 Nations Cup: Equatorial Guinea announce squad". BBC. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "Equatorial Guinea 1–1 Congo: AFCON 2015 gets under way as Leopards grab late leveller against National Thunder". Daily Mail. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  11. ↑ "Gabon 0-2 Equatorial Guinea". BBC. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  12. ↑ "Ibán". National Football Teams. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
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