Diego Capel

Diego Capel

Capel warming-up for Sporting in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Diego Ángel Capel Trinidad
Date of birth	(1988-02-16) 16 February 1988 (age 29)
Place of birth	Albox, Spain
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Winger
Club information
Current team	Anderlecht
Number	17
Youth career
2000–2001	Barcelona
2001–2004	Sevilla
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2004–2007	Sevilla B	84	(7)
2004–2011	Sevilla	126	(6)
2011–2015	Sporting CP	99	(10)
2015–2016	Genoa	21	(0)
2016–	Anderlecht	14	(1)
National team
2004	Spain U16	3	(0)
2004–2005	Spain U17	14	(2)
2006–2007	Spain U19	12	(0)
2007	Spain U20	6	(2)
2007–2011	Spain U21	25	(5)
2012	Spain U23	1	(0)
2008	Spain	2	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 January 2017.

Diego Ángel Capel Trinidad (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo kaˈpel]; born 16 February 1988) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Belgian club R.S.C. Anderlecht as a left winger.

He made his senior debut with Sevilla at 17, going on to appear in 173 competitive games for the club over the course of seven La Liga seasons (12 goals) and win six major trophies, including two UEFA Cups. In 2011, he signed for Sporting in Portugal.

Capel gained 60 caps for Spain all youth categories comprised, representing the under-21s in two European Championships.

Groomed in Sevilla FC's youth system (after a brief spell at FC Barcelona), Capel was born in Albox, Almería, and he made his first professional appearance aged only 16, playing three minutes in a 2–1 home win over Atlético Madrid on 24 October 2004. In the following seasons he would alternate between the A and B-teams, playing four further games in 2005–06 with the main squad; on 1 December 2005 he appeared 18 minutes in the Andalusians' 3–1 win against Vitória de Guimarães also at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, in an eventually victorious campaign in the UEFA Cup.