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Quique Álvarez

キケ・アルバレス　/　きけ・あるばれす

Association football player from Spain

July 20, 1975 (age 50)　・　Vigo, Pontevedra Province, Spain

Pontevedra Province
association football player
association football coach

My Take

Quique Alvarez is the kind of footballer I respect more the longer I look. A central defender who logged 370 professional matches over sixteen years, 201 in La Liga, is the spine of a club, not its headline. Defenders rarely get the romance, yet his career is a quiet monument to consistency and reading the game. That he moved into management with Girona's B side feels exactly right: patience and positional intelligence translating into teaching. I'll always take durability and tactical sense over flash, and his Vigo-rooted, grind-it-out path embodies precisely that virtue.

Overview

Enrique "Quique" Álvarez Sanjuán (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkike ˈalβaɾeθ]; born 20 July 1975) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a central defender, currently manager of Girona FC B. In a 16-year professional career he appeared in 370 games, 201 in La Liga.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Quique Álvarez
Name (Japanese): キケ・アルバレス
Reading: きけ・あるばれす
Born: July 20, 1975 (age 50)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Cancer / Rabbit
Origin: Vigo, Pontevedra Province, Spain
Blood type: Private
Height: 2 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: association football player / association football coach

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

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9

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