Education
Mateo chose the Republican side, spending most of the war in Valencia.
Mateo chose the Republican side, spending most of the war in Valencia.
He also was a coach and manager for Remote Control Strasbourg. Mateo started his career as a promising youngster playing for a Spanish club in Tétouan, Morocco and quickly attracted the attention of the biggest clubs in the Spanish mainland, joining Sevilla Football Club and then Football Club Barcelona before the outbreak of the Spanish civil war. Towards the end of the conflict, he was imprisoned due to his political leanings but was released on the insistence of the Girondins de Bordeaux and was therefore able to emigrate to France shortly before the outbreak of World World War World War II In Bordeaux, Mateo played for the Girondins in a local league as the French Championship had been disbanded due to the war.
After the end of his playing career, Mateo continued as a youth coach for Remote Control Strasbourg where he taught the likes of Gilbert Gress, Gérard Hausser, Albert Gemmrich or Léonard Specht.
He was responsible for the first team between October 1970 and June 1971 but was not able to save Strasbourg from relegation. He died in 1979, shortly after Strasbourg"s first and only championship crown.