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Mario Cotelo

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Mario Cotelo
Personal information
Full name Mario Gutiérrez Cotelo[1]
Date of birth (1975-02-10) 10 February 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth La Felguera, Spain
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11+12 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Sporting Gijón
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1996 Sporting Gijón B 75 (6)
1993–2001 Sporting Gijón 148 (10)
1996–1997Badajoz (loan) 36 (1)
2001–2002 Sevilla 5 (0)
2003 Las Palmas 18 (1)
2003–2009 Getafe 142 (5)
Total 424 (23)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mario Gutiérrez Cotelo (born 10 February 1975) is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a right midfielder.

He amassed La Liga totals of 168 games and six goals over ten seasons, representing in the competition Sporting de Gijón, Sevilla and Getafe.

Club career

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Born in La Felguera, Asturias, Cotelo began his career at local Sporting de Gijón, and played for their reserves in his first two seasons as a senior. In 1993–94 he appeared once for the main squad and, after a loan to Segunda División side CD Badajoz, would become an important player with the latter.[2]

After four full seasons with Gijón, Cotelo returned to La Liga with Sevilla FC, but would only appear five times for the Andalusians over one and a half campaigns, moving to UD Las Palmas in January 2003. In 2003–04 he was a key element in Getafe CF's first-ever promotion to the top flight, and went on to total 93 league games the following three years.[2]

Used sparingly throughout 2007–08, Cotelo also played six incomplete UEFA Cup matches in the Madrid side's quarter-final run. In the next season he featured even less (five minutes of action), and was subsequently released.[2]

Not being able to find a new club, Cotelo retired from the game in early 2010, at the age of 35. He totalled 349 appearances in the country's two major divisions.[2]

On 20 August 2015, Cotelo returned to Sporting to work as a match delegate.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mario Gutiérrez COTELO". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d Pascual González, Álvaro (20 June 2013). "Yo jugué en el Getafe: Mario Cotelo" [I played for Getafe: Mario Cotelo] (in Spanish). Vavel. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Quini, tras asumir su nueva responsabilidad institucional: "Quiero morirme en el Sporting"" [Quini, after taking over new institutional responsibility: "I want to die in Sporting"] (in Spanish). Sporting Gijón. 20 August 2015. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
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