Nolito

Nolito
Nolito (2013)
Personnel
Surname	Manuel Agudo Durán
birthday	October 15, 1986
place of birth	Sanlúcar de Barrameda ,  Spain
size	175 cm
position	Winger , striker
Juniors
Years	station
1999-2000	UD Algaida
2000-2005	Atlético Sanluqueño
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2006	Atlético Sanluqueño	37 (24)
2006-2008	Écija Balompié	67 (14)
2008-2011	FC Barcelona B	100 (29)
2010-2011	FC Barcelona	2 0(0)
2011-2013	Benfica Lisbon	35 (12)
2013	→  Granada CF  (loan)	17 0(3)
2013-2016	Celta Vigo	100 (39)
2016-2017	Manchester City	19 0(4)
2017-2020	Sevilla FC	49 0(7)
2020–	Celta Vigo	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2014–	Spain	16 0(6)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 18, 2020 2 As of May 24, 2017

Nolito (born October 15, 1986 in Sanlúcar de Barrameda ; real life Manuel Agudo Durán ) is a Spanish football player who is under contract with Celta Vigo .

Career

societies

Nolito moved from Atlético Sanluqueño to Écija Balompié in 2006 . He became known for his goal to make it 1-1 in the Copa del Rey against Real Madrid in the 2006/07 season. With Ejica he was at the end of the 2007/08 season champion of Segunda División B Group 4, but failed with the club in the play-offs for promotion. In 2008, the castle Andalusian the FC Barcelona and was there for the second team, for FC Barcelona B , is provided. With his goals, the team made it to the Segunda División , the second Spanish division, in the 2009/10 season .

He played his first game for the first team in the cup game against CD Benidorm in October 2008. Two years later, on October 3, 2010, Nolito came to a league game for FC Barcelona for the first time. In the home game against RCD Mallorca (1: 1) he was substituted on for Pedro in the 78th minute. He scored his first official goal for FC Barcelona on November 10, 2010 in the second minute of the cup match against AD Ceuta . In the 2010/11 season he officially belonged to the second team and was the most frequently used player of his team with 38 appearances. At the same time, he finished second with 13 goals in the team's internal goalscorer list - only league goal scorer Jonathan Soriano scored more goals.

After his contract with FC Barcelona expired, Nolito joined Benfica Lisbon for the 2011/12 season .

On January 29, 2013 Nolito joined on loan until the end of the 2012/13 season back in the Primera División for FC Granada .

After the loan, Nolito did not return to Benfica, but instead joined Celta Vigo for the 2013/14 season . There he met coach Luis Enrique , under whom he already played in the second team of FC Barcelona.

For the 2016/17 season , Nolito moved to the Premier League at Manchester City . He received a four-year contract until June 30, 2020. Under his compatriot Pep Guardiola , however, he was unable to prevail and made 19 league appearances (9 times from the start) in which he scored 4 goals.

For the 2017/18 season , Nolito moved back to Spain to FC Sevilla and signed a contract there until June 30, 2020.

In mid-June 2020, Nolito returned to Celta Vigo by emergency transfer before the 30th matchday of the 2019/20 season. This was possible due to Sergio Álvarez's long-term injury outside of the exchange periods.

National team

On November 7, 2014, Nolito was nominated by national coach Vicente del Bosque for the European Championship qualifier against Belarus and the friendly against Germany . He made his debut on November 18, 2014 in the 0-1 friendly defeat against the reigning world champion.

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was accepted as a regular player in Spain's squad. In all games he was on the starting line-up and in the second group game against Turkey he prepared the 1-0 and turned it into 2-0 himself. In the round of 16 against Italy, he was substituted at half time when the score was 0: 1. The game was lost and Spain was eliminated.

successes

• Promotion to the Segunda División : 2010
• Spanish Supercup : 2010 (FC Barcelona)
• Champions League Winner : 2011 (FC Barcelona)
• Spanish Championship : 2011 (FC Barcelona)
• Taça da Liga : 2012 (Benfica Lisbon)

Web links

Commons : Nolito  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nolito in the database of weltfussball.de
• Application dates at BDFutbol
• Player profile at futbolme.com (spanish)

Footnotes and individual references

1. ↑ SPORT.es: Nolito puede ser el fichaje estrella para Luis Enrique
2. ↑ MARCA.com: Nolito, el último de La Masia de debutar
3. ↑ FCBarcelona.cat: Five star Barça progress (5-1) ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ BDFutbol: Squad Barcelona Atlètic 2010-11
5. ↑ uefa.com: Benfica storms with Nolito and Mora
6. ↑ Manchester City: Nolito signs for City , July 1, 2016, accessed July 1, 2016.
7. ↑ Football: Sevilla FC sign Nolito from Man City . ( handelsblatt.com [accessed July 16, 2017]). Football: Sevilla FC sign Nolito from Man City ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ El RC Celta cierra el ansiado regreso de Nolito , rccelta.es, June 18, 2020, accessed on June 18, 2020.
9. ↑ sefutbol.com: OFICIAL: Estos son los 23 convocados para los partidos ante Bielorrusia y Alemania ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ kicker online : distance shooter Kroos decides the prestige duel