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Rubén Castro is already the top historical Spanish scorer in the League

Rubén Castro at the table of Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The striker from Gran Canaria, who will turn 42 in June, He shares the podium with the world stars in the goal history of the Spanish competition. Yesterday, wearing the Málaga shirt, the man from La Isleta signed a new milestone. His double against Zaragoza, in addition to signing a vital victory for his team in the fight to save themselves from burning in LaLiga Smartbank, made him the top national scorer in all of history in the First and Second Division.

A total of 285 notches accumulates in his boots this veteran gunman from the area trained in the youth ranks of UD Las Palmas, a club where he left so many important and anthological for the retina of the yellow fans.

Rubén Castro beats a Spanish football legend, the late Enrique Castro, Quini, legend of Sporting, Barcelona and the Spanish team, who set the previous mark at 284 goals. Objective accomplished for the striker from Gran Canaria, who is placed in the ranking behind the unattainable Leo Messi, who signs 474, and Cristano Ronaldo, who appears with a total of 311.

Of his 285 goals in Spanish professional soccer, El Moña scored 192 in the Second Division and 93 in the First Division. He adds a total of 23 campaigns in the elite, distributed as follows: 12 in LaLiga Santander and 11 in LaLiga SmartBank.

With the Unión Deportiva Las Palmas he scored 68 goals in five seasons, in two stages. At Deportivo de La Coruña he signed five goals in two courses. At Albacete he scored three goals in one campaign. After going blank in his ephemeral stint at Racing Santander, at Nástic de Tarragona he managed four goals the season he was there.

His most prolific stage was lived by Rubén Castro at Betis, where he scored 147 goals in eight campaigns. He is also remembered in Cartagena for the 39 peas he made in two years. In Huesca he did 14 in one; and at Rayo Vallecano 15 in another campaign. At Málaga he has scored seven goals so far, with the two from yesterday. And to this number of goals we must also add those he has scored in other competitions such as the Copa del Rey (15), the Intertoto (4) and the Europa League (2).

Double against Madrid at the Insular

In the 181 duels with the UD Las Palmas team, he scored 68 goals in his two stages as a yellow footballer -from 2000 to 2004 and from 2018 to 2020-. He scored his first goal in the First Division with his hometown team against Real Madrid at the Estadio Insular. It was on October 3, 2001. And it made its double debut against the squad led by Vicente del Bosque and which included among its ranks footballers of the stature of Zidane, Casillas or Raúl.

Rubén’s 285 goals, between First and Second, make him the second footballer to have scored in the most different league matches, only behind world champion Leo Messi (300). Among his favorite victims, Rayo Vallecano, the shield he wore in 2009-10, which he has managed to score 11 times. Zaragoza has also been shot 11 times. In this list are Athletic Club de Bilbao (10), Lugo (9), Numancia (9), Granada (9), Barcelona (8), Celta (8), Osasuna (8), Getafe (8), Valladolid ( 7), Córdoba (7), Girona (7), Leganés (7), Espanyol (7) and the Las Palmas Sports Union itself (7).

The former player of Dépor, Albacete, Racing, Nástic, Huesca, Rayo Vallecano, Cartagena or Betis now threatens another record, that of historical top scorer in the Second Division: he is two behind Nino (194). Rubén Castro has two promotions with Betis to the First Division (2011 and 2015) and two Pichichis trophies (with UD in 2004 and with the Heliópolis club in 2015).

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