Miguel Ángel Nieto

Miguel Ángel Nieto

Personal information
Full name	Miguel Ángel Nieto de la Calle
Date of birth	12 January 1986 (1986-01-12) (age 25)
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Winger
Club information
Current club	Numancia
Number	7
Youth career
1993–2000	Juventud Sanse
2000–2004	Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2004–2006	Real Madrid C	48	(28)
2006–2008	Real Madrid B	48	(6)
2007	Real Madrid	2	(0)
2008–2011	Almería	25	(1)
2011	→ Xerez (loan)	2	(0)
2011–	Numancia	5	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 October 2011. † Appearances (Goals).

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Nieto and the second or maternal family name is De la Calle.

Miguel Ángel Nieto de la Calle (born 12 January 1986 in Madrid) is a Spanish footballer who plays for CD Numancia in Segunda División, as a right winger.

Football career

A Real Madrid youth graduate, Nieto spent his first three professional seasons with its C team. He sometimes trained with and was called-up to the main squad, as against Racing de Santander (18 November 2006) and Valencia CF (27 November), as an unused substitute.^[1]

Nieto made his first team-debut in a match with FC Dynamo Kyiv in the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, in a final group stage tie that ended with a 2–2 away draw. His La Liga debut was against Villarreal CF, on 27 January 2007, and he appeared the next week against UD Levante, in two consecutive 1–0 defeats, although Madrid would be crowned league champions. On the latter match, Nieto, who had substituted an injured Robinho, tried his luck with a shot which sliced the woodwork of José Francisco Molina's goal.^[2]

After spending one entire season with Real Madrid Castilla, in the third division, Nieto signed a five-year contract with 2007–08's top division overachievers UD Almería on 1 July 2008, after finishing his contract with Real Madrid.^[3] Rarely played in his first season, he did score an important goal, in a 3–1 home win against Sporting de Gijón on 10 May 2009, which confirmed that the Andalusians would remain in the top level for a further year.

In late January 2011, completely ostracized by both Juan Manuel Lillo and his successor José Luis Oltra, Nieto was loaned to another side in the region, second level's Xerez CD, until the end of the season, also being rarely used.

References

1. ^ Capello and the cantera (Spanish)
2. ^ R.Madrid, 0 Levante, 1 (Spanish)
3. ^ Nieto se convierte en el cuarto fichaje almeriense (Nieto becomes fourth Almería signing); Marca, 2 July 2008 (Spanish)

External links

• BDFutbol profile
• Futbolme profile (Spanish)
• Transfermarkt profile

Persondata
Name	Nieto, Miguel Angel
Alternative names
Short description	Footballer
Date of birth	12 January 1986
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Date of death
Place of death