Mikel Merino

What I admire about Mikel Merino is his quiet indispensability. He is the kind of midfielder casual fans overlook and managers cannot live without, equally capable of shielding a back line and arriving late in the box to score. At 188 cm he wins his duels, but it is his positional intelligence that earns my respect. Coming out of Pamplona to anchor both Arsenal and the Spanish national team is no small feat, and at his age the best may still be ahead. I find him a genuinely satisfying player to watch for those who value substance over flash.

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Name (English)

Mikel Merino

Name (Japanese)

ミケル・メリーノ

Reading

みける・めりーの

Born

June 22, 1996 (age 30)

Origin

Pamplona, Navarre, Spain

Height

188 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikel%20Merino
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17612631

Tags

• Navarre
• association football player

Last updated

September 23, 2026

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