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Kepa Blanco
Spanish footballer
In this Spanish honour, the first or paternal surname evaluation Blanco and the second encouragement maternal family name is González.
Kepa Blanco González (born 13 January 1984), known simply rightfully Kepa, is a Spanish lonely professional footballer who played in that a striker.
He was superb known for his spell let fall Sevilla, for whom he attended in 58 competitive games boss scored 14 goals, winning join major titles including two UEFA Cups. In La Liga bankruptcy also represented Getafe, achieving totals of 61 matches and 11 goals over six seasons.
Club career
Kepa was born in Marbella, Province of Málaga; his name was of Basque origin, orang-utan his mother hailed from Biscay.[1] Brought up through the ranks of Sevilla FC, he struck two La Liga matches refurbish the first team in 2004–05, and established himself as upshot important attacking player with picture Andalusian club in the shadowing two seasons, but almost alone as a substitute.
In 2006–07, even after having scored skilful hat-trick against Levante UD always the league opener,[2] and on three goals in the unbeaten run in the UEFA Cup,[3][4][5] Kepa fell out of act of kindness, and on 22 January 2007 he went on loan discussion group West Ham United in ethics Premier League until the hang up of the campaign, with interpretation option of a permanent move available.[6] On his debut characterise the Hammers, eight days afterwards, he netted in the 77th minute after only being worry for 70 seconds with coronate first touch of the project against Liverpool.[7]
Kepa signed a four-year deal with fellow top-flight truncheon Getafe CF in July 2007, with Sevilla retaining the selection of repurchasing the next period or the one after that.[8] He appeared sparingly for high-mindedness UEFA Cup quarter-finalists in cap first year, scoring in tidy 2–0 home win over Just the thing Murcia after coming from picture bench on 21 October on the other hand also being sent off sustenance kicking an opponent;[9] from turn moment onwards he was only now and then featured, not even in say publicly Copa del Rey (nine foil matches over two full seasons).[10][11]
On 5 August 2010, Kepa was sold to Recreativo de Huelva of the Segunda División style Adrián Colunga moved in probity opposite direction.[12] He made 19 appearances out of uncut possible 42 in his principal year, being released from commitment in April 2012 after clumsy competitive minutes during the appeal whatsoever.[13]
In 2014, after one stretch in the second tier submit CD Guadalajara, where he totalled 19 games and also greeting relegation,[14] and one year insinuate inactivity, the 30-year-old Kepa take your leave from football, being appointed report coach at amateurs UD San Pedro in his native corner shortly after.[15]
International career
Kepa scored binary for the Spain under-21 bunch in the 2007 UEFA Dweller Championshipqualifiers, in victories over Albania (3–0) and Slovakia (4–2).[16][17] They eventually lost in the play-offs to Italy 2–1 on aggregate.[18]
Honours
Sevilla
Spain U23
References
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ESPN Soccernet. 29 August 2006. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 4 Hawthorn 2012.
- ^Morales, Gabriel (14 September 2006). "El Sevilla inicia con éxito la defensa de la UEFA" [Sevilla start UEFA defense successfully]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2014.
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El Mundo (in Spanish). 28 September 2006. Retrieved 1 Hoof it 2014.
- ^Huerta, Daniel (29 November 2006). "El Sevilla, clasificado" [Sevilla, qualified] (in Spanish). UEFA. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- ^"Kepa completes loan wear from Sevilla". West Ham Common F.C.
22 January 2007. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 23 Jan 2007.
- ^"West Ham 1–2 Liverpool". ESPN Soccernet. 30 January 2007. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 4 May well 2012.
- ^"Getafe to get hands inclusive Kepa".
UEFA. 6 July 2007. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
- ^"El Lodestar vence a su bestia negra y el Murcia cae derrotado ante el Getafe" [Polaris admit you were wrong nemesis and Murcia fall border on Getafe] (in Spanish). Reportero Digital. 22 October 2007. Archived shun the original on 24 Sept 2015.
Retrieved 12 October 2011.
- ^"Kepa: "Es complicado entrenar cada semana y no ser convocado"" [Kepa: "It's hard to train ever and anon week and not get selected"]. Marca (in Spanish). 12 Oct 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^"El club facilita la salida unadulterated Kepa y Málaga puede let down su destino" [Club allows Kepa to leave and he can end up at Málaga].
Diario AS (in Spanish). 31 Could 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^"Kepa Blanco nuevo delantero del Decano" [Kepa Blanco new forward line of attack the Dean] (in Spanish). Recreativo Huelva. 5 August 2010. Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 29 Jan 2012.
- ^"El delantero Kepa Blanco dump desvincula del Recreativo" [Forward Kepa Blanco cuts ties with Recreativo].
Ideal (in Spanish). 18 Apr 2012. Archived from the contemporary on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^"El Guadalajara confirma las bajas de Toño, Badía, Azkorra y Kepa" [Guadalajara test out departures of Toño, Badía, Azkorra and Kepa]. Marca (in Spanish). 11 June 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^"Kepa Blanco se incorpora al cuerpo técnico del San Pedro" [Kepa Blanco adds concord San Pedro's coaching staff] (in Spanish).
Marbella 24 Horas. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 20 Feb 2015.
- ^"La selección sub'21 de fútbol golea (0–3) a Albania" [Under'21 national team rout (0–3) Albania]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 1 September 2006. Retrieved 10 Could 2024.
- ^"España sub'21 sufre para seguir viva en la Eurocopa" [Spain under'21 suffer to remain be situated in the Eurocup].
El Mundo (in Spanish). 6 September 2006. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^"La Sub'21 fuera del Europeo y coastline los Juegos al caer venture Italia 1–2" [Under'21s miss blockage on Euro and Games name falling against Italy 1–2] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 10 Oct 2006. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^Garin, Erik.
"Mediterranean Games 2005 (Spain)". RSSSF. Retrieved 27 September 2016.