ACOSTA RODRIGUEZ Adolfo

Football 5-a-side

Date of Birth: 19 May 1981

Age: 40

Gender: Male

Sport Class: B1

Place of birth: LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA

Birth Country:

Spain

Place of residence : MADRID

Residence Country:

Spain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Football 5-a-side	Men ESP Spain	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #04 ESP Spain 1 THA Thailand 0	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #08 ESP Spain 0 ARG Argentina 2	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #12 MAR Morocco 1 ESP Spain 1	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's 5-6 Classification Match #14 JPN Japan 1 ESP Spain 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
3	Men	2012	London, GBR
3	Men	2004	Athens, GRE
4	Men	2008	Beijing, CHN
6	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championship
2	Men	2010	Hereford, GBR
3	Men	2014	Tokyo, JPN
4	Men	2006	Buenos Aires, ARG
5	Men	2018	Madrid, ESP
European Championships
1	Men	2019	Rome, ITA
2	Men	2017	Berlin, GER

Fito (once.es, 20 May 2019)

Supporting Spanish football team FC Barcelona. (rtve.es, 05 Jun 2018)

Languages spoken:

Betis San Isidro [Madrid, ESP]

Miguel Angel Becerra [club]; Jesus Bargueiras [national], ESP

2002 for Spain, European Championships in Paris, France (dxtadaptado.com, 24 May 2018)

National league:

Liga Nacional [ESP] (dxtadaptado.com, 23 Feb 2020)

He began playing football at school. He took up Para football 5-a-side at age 15 in Seville, Spain. (dxtadaptado.com, 24 May 2018; paralimpicos.es, 16 Nov 2014)

"I used to do swimming, athletics and goalball, but at age 15 I moved from Las Palmas to Seville in order to study at the school of the Blind Association [ONCE] and they told me about 5-a-side." (dxtadaptado.com, 24 May 2018; paralimpicos.es, 16 Nov 2014)

Philosophy:

"When I play Para football I feel free because on the pitch I don't need my stick or the help of anybody else. I have always been quite shy and sport has brought me many things, like happiness, orientation, meeting people, travelling and learning how to live with different groups of people." (ONCE Twitter profile, 29 May 2018; dxtadaptado.com, 24 May 2018)

General Interest

Classification
B1 (ibsasport.org, 19 Dec 2019)

Type of Impairment
Vision impairment (paralimpico.es, 24 Nov 2014)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (paralimpicos.es, 16 Nov 2014)

Impairment Details
He was born without vision. (paralimpicos.es, 16 Nov 2014)

General
OCCUPATION
He sells lottery tickets on behalf of the Spanish National Organisation of the Blind [ONCE]. (diariovasco.com, 25 Sep 2019; dxtadaptado.com, 24 May 2018)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
He has served on the executive board and as a member of the general assembly for the Federacion Espanola de Deportes para Ciegos [FEDC], the Spanish national governing body for vision impaired sport. (fedc.es, 23 Nov 2013)

Social Media

https://twitter.com/adolfoarod

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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