Vicente Piquer Mora, known in football as ‘Piquer’, was born 76 years ago in Algar de Palancia (Valencia). He was a Valencia player between 1955 and 1964, the year in which he signed for C.D Málaga. He arrived on the Costa del Sol at aged 32, to a club that was presided over by Juan Moreno de Luna, and with José María Zárrage as Manager and with Domingo Balmanya as its coach. It was a legendary squad with great names such as ‘Chato’ Aragón, Pepillo, Berruezo, Portalés, Américo, Chuzo, Migueli, Ben Barek, and the very young Antonio Benítez, amongst many others.
Piquer, the winger and striker, played for Spain on four occasions and after hanging up his boots he became a manager for some 22 years, getting various promotions in the lower divisions. Vicente Piquer, who was for 10 years the President of the Footballers’ Association of Valencia CF, where the veterans of the ‘che’ squad meet next to the Mestalla stadium, is loved by everyone wherever he has worked in football – amongst other places in his native Valencia…and, of course, in Málaga.
