Fernando Martín (footballer)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Martín and the second or maternal family name is Carreras.

Fernando Martín
Personal information
Full name Fernando Martín Carreras[1]
Date of birth (1981-08-27)27 August 1981[1]
Place of birth Valencia, Spain
Date of death 26 December 2025(2025-12-26) (aged 44)
Place of death Padar, Indonesia
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position Centre-back
Youth career
1997–2000 Benimar
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2002 Pego
2002–2005 Eldense
2005–2007 Benidorm 56 (2)
2007–2008 Cultural Leonesa 28 (1)
2008–2012 Alcoyano 138 (12)
2012–2013 Cartagena 13 (0)
2013–2014 Ontinyent 20 (0)
2014–2015 La Nucía 38 (0)
2015–2016 Paterna 35 (1)
Total 316+ (15+)
Managerial career
2025 Valencia B (women)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fernando Martín Carreras (27 August 1981 – 26 December 2025) was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a central defender.

His career was spent mostly in the Segunda División B, making 219 appearances for five clubs, mainly Alcoyano. He won promotion to Segunda División with that team, in which he played 24 games in the 2011–12 season.

Playing career

Born in Valencia, Martín began his career with Pego CF and CD Eldense.[2] After two years with Benidorm CF in the Segunda División B, he joined Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa of the same league on 30 July 2007.[3] He started in all but three of his appearances in his one season with the side from León.[3]

Martín returned to his native Valencian Community in July 2008, signing for CD Alcoyano.[4] The club missed out on promotion to Segunda División in 2009, when he gave away the ball for a last-minute goal that awarded the win to Cartagena.[5]

Martín eventually became their captain. He helped them to promotion in 2011, playing a sole second-division campaign in 2011–12 in which they were relegated;[6] his professional debut took place on 27 August 2011, when he featured 90 minutes of a 1–1 home draw against CD Numancia.[7]

Following Alcoyano's relegation, Martín signed for Cartagena back in the third tier, and was dismissed alongside Manuel Rueda in 2013; the decision was ruled as unlawful by a judge and the players received compensation through the club's bankruptcy proceedings.[8] The payments were made by February 2016, with the organisation avoiding liquidation as a result.[9]

Martín represented Ontinyent CF in 2013–14, being relegated to Tercera División.[10] In the following season, he appeared for CF La Nucía in that division, meeting the same fate.[8]

Coaching career

Martín spent nine years coaching the academy teams of Valencia CF Femenino before being named in the coaching staff of its main squad in early 2024.[11] In 2025, he was appointed manager of the reserves in the Tercera Federación.[12]

Personal life and death

Martín died on 26 December 2025 at the age of 44, after the boat he was traveling in sank off the coast of Padar, Indonesia. Three of his children died, while his wife and one daughter survived.[12]

Martín lost his mother at a young age.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Fernando Martín at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ a b Santiago Rico, Miguel (28 December 2025). "Fernando Martín Carreras, In Memoriam" (in Spanish). El Record. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
  3. ^ a b Fraguas, Ángel (27 December 2025). "El desaparecido en Indonesia Fernando Martín jugó en la Cultural Leonesa" [Fernando Martín who disappeared in Indonesia played for Cultural Leonesa]. Diario de León (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2025.
  4. ^ Seserino, P. (2 July 2008). "Fernando Martín ha llegado a un acuerdo verbal con el Alcoyano" [Fernando Martín has reached a verbal agreement with Alcoyano]. Diario Información (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2025.
  5. ^ Serrano, Rubén (24 May 2019). "Carteros, taxistas y eternos héroes" [Postmen, taxi drivers and eternal heroes]. La Verdad (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2025.
  6. ^ "Mor l'exalcoyanista Fernando Martín en un naufragi a Indonèsia" [Ex-Alcoyano player Fernando Martín dies in a shipwreck in Indonesia] (in Catalan). ARA Multimédia. 27 December 2025. Retrieved 27 December 2025.
  7. ^ "El Alcoyano suma un punto en su retorno a Segunda" [Alcoyano get one point in their return to Segunda]. Diario de Cádiz (in Spanish). 28 August 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2026.
  8. ^ a b Moya, Francisco J. (30 June 2015). "El juez ahorra al Efesé más de 300.000 euros" [Judge saves more than 300,000 euros for Efesé]. La Verdad (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2025.
  9. ^ Moya, Francisco J. (23 February 2016). "El Efesé sobrevive" [Efesé survives]. La Verdad (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  10. ^ Moya, Francisco J. (17 July 2014). "El cásting del '9' ha terminado" [The casting for a 'number 9' has finished]. La Verdad (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  11. ^ ""Poder estar tanto tiempo en el Valencia CF es un honor para mí"" ["To be able to spend so much time with Valencia CF is an honour for me"] (in Spanish). GM Football Academy. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  12. ^ a b "Consternación en el Valencia: Fernando Martín, entrenador de su filial femenino, víctima del naufragio en Indonesia" [Dismay at Valencia: Fernando Martín, manager of its women's reserve team, victim of the shipwreck in Indonesia] (in Spanish). RTVE. 27 December 2025. Retrieved 27 December 2025.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.