Adrián Salcedo


Adrián José Salcedo de Jesús is a Dominican footballer who plays for Atlántico FC and the Dominican Republic national team as a midfielder. He also holds Spanish citizenship.

Club career

Born in Santo Domingo, Salcedo moved to the Balearic Islands as a child and began playing football there when he was nine. He graduated from RCD Mallorca's youth setup. He made his senior debuts with the reserves in the 2011–12 season, in Segunda División B.
In the 2013 summer Salcedo joined another Spanish third division side, CE Constància. He only played three matches in the 2013–14 campaign and the team descended to Tercera División.
Salcedo began the next season as a player of 90 minutes for Constància, but he was injured in Week 6. After his recovery, in January 2015, he joined fellow Tercera División team UE Alcúdia where remained until the end of the season. In total, he played 23 games in the 2014/2015 campaign – 6 for Constància and 17 for Alcúdia.
In the 2015 summer Salcedo joined another Spanish fourth division side, CD Montuïri, and after playing 15 matches with them, scoring once, he signed for Atlántico FC in mid January 2016 to compete in the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol of that year. After finishing league in the Dominican Republic, in August 2016, he went back to Balearic football to play for Preferente's team Santanyí two months later.
He returned to Atlántico FC in March 2017.

International career

Salcedo made his international debut for Dominican Republic on 4 June 2016, as a second half substitution in a 1–0 away win against Bermuda for the 2017 Caribbean Cup qualification.