Gabriel "Biel" Company Vives (born 16 February 1992), is a Spanish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays for

CD Manacor Club Esportiu Manacor is a Spanish football team based in Manacor, in the autonomous community of Balearic Islands. Founded on 23 June 1923, it plays in '' Tercera División – Group 11''. The club's ground is ''Na Capellera'' Stadium holding 3 ...

as a

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Club career

Mallorca

Born in

Maria de la Salut Maria de la Salut is a small town and municipality located in the center of the island in the district of es pla on Majorca and in the northeast of the capital, one of the Balearic Islands, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.s ...

Majorca Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...

, Company studied at the University of the Balearic Islands, then graduated from local

RCD Mallorca Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, S.A.D. (, ca, Reial Club Deportiu Mallorca , ''Royal Sporting Club Mallorca''), commonly known as Real Mallorca or just Mallorca is a Spanish professional football club based in Palma on the island of Majorca in ...

's youth system, and made his senior debuts with the reserves in the 2010–11 season, in

Segunda División B Segunda División B ( en, Second Division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish Foot ...

. On 11 January 2012 he made his professional debut, playing the entire second half of a 6–1 home routing over

Real Sociedad Real Sociedad de Fútbol, S.A.D., more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad (; ''Royal Society''), La Real in Spanish, Erreala in Basque, is a Spanish professional sports club in the city of San Sebastián, Basque Country, founded on 7 Septem ...

, for the season's

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. Company made his

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commercially known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administrated by the Lig ...

debut on 26 January 2014, replacing

Pedro Bigas Pedro Bigas Rigo (born 15 May 1990) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defender or a midfielder for Elche CF. Club career Mallorca Born in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Bigas made his debut as a senior with CD Montuïr ...

in a 2–2 draw at Real Murcia. On 17 July he signed a new one-year deal with the Balearic outfit, and appeared in 16 matches during the campaign. On 6 July 2015 Company extended his contract until 2017, being definitely promoted to the main squad.

Later career

On 6 September 2017, Company moved abroad and signed for Cypriot club Pafos FC. Following a trial in the Netherlands with

ADO Den Haag Alles Door Oefening Den Haag (), commonly known by the abbreviated name ADO Den Haag (), is a Dutch association football club from the city of The Hague. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football, following relegation f ...

, Company joined Romanian club

FC Hermannstadt Asociația Fotbal Club Hermannstadt (), commonly known as FC Hermannstadt, Hermannstadt or familiarly as Sibiu (), is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Sibiu (german: Hermannstadt), Sibiu County, which currently competes ...

on 12 July 2018. On 19 June 2020, Company was released from the club after having his contract mutually terminated. Company returned to his native island in September 2020, signing for

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...

club

Career statistics

References

External links

Mallorca official profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Company, Biel 1992 births Living people Footballers from Mallorca Spanish footballers Association football defenders Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players RCD Mallorca B players RCD Mallorca players Cypriot First Division players Pafos FC players Liga I players FC Hermannstadt players Spanish expatriate footballers Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate footballers in Cyprus Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate footballers in Romania