Kiko (footballer)
Kiko presenting the new Spain gear in 1995
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| Full name | Francisco Miguel Narváez Machón | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 26 April 1972 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Jerez de la Frontera, Spain | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre forward | |||||||||||
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| 1985–1990 | Cádiz | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Cádiz B | |||||||||||
| 1991–1993 | Cádiz | 78 | (12) | |||||||||
| 1993–2001 | Atlético Madrid | 225 | (48) | |||||||||
| 2002 | Extremadura | 11 | (1) | |||||||||
| Total | 314 | (61) | ||||||||||
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| 1991 | Spain U19 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1992–1994 | Spain U21 | 5 | (2) | |||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Spain U23 | 12 | (7) | |||||||||
| 1992–1998 | Spain | 26 | (4) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Francisco Miguel Narváez Machón (born 26 April 1972), known as Kiko, is a Spanish retired footballer who spent most of his career with Atlético Madrid.
A centre forward with tremendous technical ability and field vision, he possessed nonetheless a poor aerial game despite being almost 190 cm tall. In ten La Liga seasons (also played one year with his main club in Segunda División), he amassed totals of 271 games and 60 goals.
Kiko was an instrumental squad member at the 1992 Summer Olympics as the national team won gold on home soil. Additionally, he appeared at full level in one World Cup and one European Championship.
Born in Jerez de la Frontera, Province of Cádiz, Kiko's career began with local Cádiz CF, and he first appeared in La Liga on 14 April 1991 in a 2–3 home loss against Athletic Bilbao. Even though he played in only five further matches in the season he was intimately connected with the Andalusia club's fate as, on 9 June, in only 25 minutes of play, he gained a penalty kick and scored an 83-minute winner in a 2–1 home win over Real Zaragoza; the team would miraculously retain their status, after the playoffs against CD Málaga.
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