Fernando Soriano
Soriano playing with Almería in 2013
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Fernando Soriano Marco | ||
| Date of birth | 24 September 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Zaragoza, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Almería (coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Zaragoza | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–2001 | Zaragoza B | 144 | (32) |
| 2001–2005 | Zaragoza | 81 | (6) |
| 2001–2002 | → Recreativo (loan) | 39 | (4) |
| 2005–2010 | Almería | 149 | (19) |
| 2010–2011 | Osasuna | 30 | (2) |
| 2011–2016 | Almería | 163 | (23) |
| Total | 606 | (86) | |
| National team | |||
| 1995–1996 | Spain U16 | 6 | (1) |
| 1997 | Spain U17 | 5 | (0) |
| 1998 | Spain U18 | 1 | (0) |
| 1999 | Spain U20 | 2 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2016– | Almería | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Fernando Soriano Marco (born 24 September 1979) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a central midfielder, and the current manager of UD Almería.
He spent most of his 19-year professional career with Almería, totalling ten seasons in two different spells. In La Liga, where he also represented Zaragoza and Osasuna, he amassed totals of 229 games and 21 goals, adding 206/33 in Segunda División.
Soriano was born in Zaragoza, Aragon. A product of hometown Real Zaragoza's youth ranks, he was loaned to second division side Recreativo de Huelva before appearing with the first team, which would befall during the 2002–03 season, also in the second level.
In La Liga, Soriano proved a very useful midfield element: in the 2003–04 campaign, he scored the winner in 2–1 wins over Racing de Santander and FC Barcelona while also helping his team to the conquest of the Copa del Rey.
Soriano joined UD Almería for 2005–06, netting seven goals in his first year. He was an instrumental figure in the club's first-ever top division promotion the next season, reuniting with former Zaragoza teammate Corona; both players were instrumental in the following campaign, as the Andalusians went on to finish eighth in their maiden experience in the main category.
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