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Julio Orozco

b. 1948

Spanish association football player

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Born 1948. Julio Orozco is a Spanish association football player.

Julio Orozco Martín (born 14 May 1948) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a forward.

He made 140 La Liga appearances and scored 33 goals for Atlético Madrid and Málaga, winning two league titles and the Copa del Generalísimo with the former. He made his debut in La Liga on 21 September 1969 in the second game of the season, playing the last five minutes of a 2–1 home loss to Las Palmas as a substitute for Javier Irureta. A week later on his first start, he scored in a 2–0 home win over Valencia, eventually making four appearances in a title-winning season.

In 1971–72, Orozco scored a career-best 10 top-flight goals, including four on 5 December in a 5–0 win over Real Sociedad at the Vicente Calderón Stadium; only Luis Aragonés in 1967 had scored four in a game for the team before. He finished the season on 8 July with the 1972 Copa del Generalísimo final, playing the last 19 minutes in place of injured goalscorer José Eulogio Gárate in a 2–1 victory over Valencia.

Málaga In July 1973, former Atlético manager Marcel Domingo signed Orozco amidst interest from Barcelona. The player received a three-year contract with a combined salary of 7 million Spanish pesetas and his former club received 8 million.

On 27 April 1980, with Málaga already relegated by the 31st matchday, the team were to take on relegation-threatened Salamanca. The visiting club's manager Felipe Mesones enlisted his former player Raúl Castronovo of Algeciras – a former Málaga teammate of Orozco – to present the offer of 4.4 million pesetas for Málaga to lose. Salamanca's 3–0 win is the only game in La Liga history to have been voided for match-fixing, though that club still avoided relegation. Orozco was one of five Málaga players suspended over the fix, being banned from football for two years.

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Spanish association football player

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Julio Orozco was born on 14 May 1948 in Yuncler.

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Julio Orozco is an association football player.

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· Wikipedia: Julio Orozco

· Wikidata: Q16585786

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