Nolito in 2013
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Manuel Agudo Durán | ||
Date of birth | 15 October 1986 | ||
Place of birth | Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Winger / Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Manchester City | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Youth career | |||
1990–2000 | Algaida | ||
2000–2003 | Sanluqueño | ||
2003–2004 | Valencia | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2003 | Sanluqueño | ||
2004–2006 | Sanluqueño | 32 | (24) |
2006–2008 | Écija | 71 | (15) |
2008–2011 | Barcelona B | 106 | (29) |
2010–2011 | Barcelona | 2 | (0) |
2011–2013 | Benfica | 35 | (12) |
2013 | → Granada (loan) | 17 | (3) |
2013–2016 | Celta | 100 | (39) |
2016– | Manchester City | 16 | (4) |
National team‡ | |||
2014– | Spain | 16 | (6) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:08, 11 March 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2016 |
Manuel Agudo Durán (born 15 October 1986), known as Nolito (Spanish pronunciation: [noˈlito]), is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger or a forward for Premier League club Manchester City.
Having begun his career at lower league clubs he signed for Barcelona in 2008, playing predominantly with its reserves. Three years later he moved to Benfica in Portugal, and was loaned back to Spain with Granada before joining Celta in 2013.
Nolito made his debut for the Spanish national team in November 2014, representing the nation at Euro 2016.
Born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, Andalusia, Nolito arrived at FC Barcelona at nearly 22 years of age, having appeared with Écija Balompié in his native region in two third division seasons. With the Catalans, in the same level, he scored 16 league goals in two seasons combined – 12 in the second – as the B-team returned to the second level after an 11-year absence; still as a youth, he briefly represented Valencia CF, but quickly returned to his first club Atlético Sanluqueño CF.