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My Take
Pepe Mel fascinates me precisely because he refuses to be just one thing. A Madrid-born striker with 78 Segunda goals and La Liga minutes at Betis, he later traded the boots for a manager's clipboard, and then, improbably, started writing children's books. I love that dual identity: the hardened competitor who also wants to tell gentle stories. There is something deeply human about a man who has tasted the brutal pressure of professional football yet still reaches for imagination and tenderness. To me he embodies a very Spanish kind of richness, where a life in sport and a life in letters are never seen as contradictions.
Overview
José "Pepe" Mel Pérez (born 28 February 1963) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker, currently a manager. He amassed Segunda División totals of 215 matches and 78 goals over eight seasons, for Real Madrid Castilla, Castellón and Betis. He also played in La Liga with the last of those clubs.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Pepe Mel
- Name (Japanese)
- ペペ・メル
- Reading
- ぺぺ・める
- Born
- February 28, 1963 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Rabbit
- Origin
- Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 179 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / association football coach / writer / children's writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://pepemel.es
- Xhttps://x.com/pepe_mel
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9A%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.