Alex Calvo García

Alex Calvo García

Alex Calvo-Garcia (born 1 January, 1972 in Ordizia, Spain) is a retired professional footballer, who was best remembered for his time as a midfielder for Scunthorpe United. On 29 May, 1999, it was his goal in the play-off final against Leyton Orient that secured Scunthorpe promotion to the then-titled Second Division.

He joined Scunthorpe from SD Eibar in 1996. In his time with the club, he made 233 appearances and scored 32 goals.

Following a testimonial game, called the Alex Calvo-Garcia Unity Match, which featured many prolific international footballers [ http://www.scunthorpeunited-mad.co.uk/news/loadsngl.asp?cid=EDB3 Alex Calvo-Garcia Unity Match] , he retired from football and returned to his native Spain at the end of the 2003-2004 season.

He continues to play football at an amateur level [http://www.scunthorpeunited-mad.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=394445 ACG hopes this could finally be Spain's year] , and was part of the Spain squad which won the European Mountain Village Championship in Switzerland, a tournament which was held prior to Euro 2008.

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