Rogelio Tapia Costa figure in the history of the Real Club Celta as the third top scorer in the club in official matches, with 119 points, only surpassed by the great Moncho Polo and Manuel Copena "Nolete" . Rogelio played for Fortuna de Vigo Celta until birth, and appears in the alignments of the Vigo club back in 1925, to be crowned champion with the Galician club Balaídos.
Interestingly, in the chronicle of his debut, the name of Rogelio appears in alignment with Celta Pasarín, accompanying the latter in defense. In his second game (13/12/1925) formed midfield with Welcome and Balbino. From here, in all alignments his job is to ram. And it would be as a striker, as he would have to make his mark in Celtic history.
According to statistics provided to us Alberto Fernandez, Rogelio player holds the record for most goals in a single game, getting eight goals on January 17, 1926 at Celta 15-0 victory over Sporting Union. Pinilla Posada and only once they got six goals in one game.
Rogelio Tapia Celta played for seven seasons. According to the records of which we have at the moment, during those seasons Celta got 582 goals (119 of which were made by Rogelio -more than 20% -), figures of legend.
This brave and fighter celestial scorer, wore the sheepskin of the Galician soccer team, one of the many games played before the civil war.
Specifically, Rogelio deputed a friendly match, the team played in Riazor galega the July 28, 1929, against the selection of Spain Center. That day teamed with Iidro; Manolin, Pasarín; Hermida, Rivera, Basterrechea; Reigosa, Hilario, Polo and Perez, being accompanied by several friends of his club Celta de Vigo. The match ended in a draw (0-0), and the big striker Roger could not pierce the opposing goal.
His best year was 1926-27 Celta campaign, in which he scored 36 goals in 23 games. But their overall numbers that highlight the golden letters in the pages of a history of the club. Goels Rogelio Tapia scored 119 in 113 official games for Celtic, scoring on average 1.05 goals per game. Stratospheric numbers, crack.
Rogelio left Celtic in 1932 but still played one season in Sporting C. de Lavadores Union.
Will forever be a record, as Rogelio Tapia is the player with goalscorer Celta best average since scoring a goal every 85 minutes.