Rubén Iván Martínez

Goalkeeping is the loneliest job in football, where one slip becomes a goal, and that's precisely why I respect a career like Rubén Martínez's. A tall keeper from Spain's A Coruña province, he spent his years guarding the line while strikers collected the glory. His record is quiet by design; goalkeepers are measured in goals prevented, the saves nobody tallies. To me, the willingness to shoulder that pressure season after season is its own kind of courage. I'll always tip my hat to the dependable last line of defense over the flashier names ahead of him.

Name (English)

Rubén Iván Martínez

Name (Japanese)

ルベン・マルティネス

Reading

るべん・まるてぃねす

Born

June 22, 1984 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

Origin

A Coruña Province, Spain

Height

187 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9

Tags

• A Coruña Province
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.