Andrés Palop
Palop playing for Sevilla in 2008
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Andrés Palop Cervera | ||
| Date of birth | 22 October 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | L'Alcúdia, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Valencia | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1997 | Valencia B | 68 | (0) |
| 1997–2005 | Valencia | 43 | (0) |
| 1997–1999 | → Villarreal (loan) | 74 | (0) |
| 2005–2013 | Sevilla | 217 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Bayer Leverkusen | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 402 | (0) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2015–2016 | Alcoyano | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Andrés Palop Cervera (born 22 October 1973) is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and a current manager.
After having languished on the bench of hometown club Valencia for most of his stay, he became a premiere player with Sevilla well into his 30s, helping it consolidate in both the domestic and European fronts. Over the course of 15 seasons he appeared in 295 games in La Liga, where he also represented Villarreal in 1998–99.
Palop was selected by Spain for Euro 2008, but never gained an international cap.
Born in L'Alcúdia, Valencian Community, Palop was a youth product of local giants Valencia CF, and his first professional seasons were spent at neighbours Villarreal CF, in a two-year loan spell. He was the undisputed starter in both the side's La Liga promotion in 1998 – a first ever – and relegation the following season, being subsequently recalled by the Che.
In his six-year stint with Valencia's main squad, however, Palop was mostly backup to veteran Santiago Cañizares, his most games consisting of 15 in his first year. As the club were crowned league champions in 2002 and 2004, he could only appear seven times combined (all in the former campaign), and eventually grew unsettled.
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