Carlos Moros Gracia (born 15 April 1993) 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 Swedish club

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is named ...

as a

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Club career

Born in

Sagunto Sagunto ( ca-valencia, Sagunt) is a municipality of Spain, located in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community. It belongs to the modern fertile ''comarca'' of Camp de Morvedre. It is located c. 30 km north of the city of Valencia, cl ...

Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with ...

, Moros was a

Valencia CF Valencia Club de Fútbol (, ca-valencia, València Club de Futbol ), commonly referred to as Valencia CF (or simply Valencia) is a professional football club based in Valencia, Spain, that currently plays in La Liga, the top flight of the Spa ...

youth graduate. On 8 August 2012 he moved to hometown side

Atlético Saguntino Atlético Saguntino (Spanish for 'Athletic Club of Sagunto') is a Spanish football team based in Sagunto, in the Valencian Community. Founded in 1951, in the 2019–20 season of Spanish football it plays in Tercera División RFEF – Group 6, h ...

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 ...

, and made his senior debut during the campaign. In May 2015, Moros moved abroad for the first time in his career after accepting a scholarship program at the

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

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. He played for the soccer team named

Temple Owls The Temple Owls are the athletic teams that represent Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The current athletic director is Arthur Johnson. The owl has been the symbol and mascot for Temple University since its founding in the 18 ...

, being named

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in his second season. On 30 March 2017, Moros switched teams and countries again, after agreeing to a two-year deal with Swedish club

GIF Sundsvall Gymnastik- och Idrottsföreningen Sundsvall, more commonly known as GIF Sundsvall (), Giffarna or simply Sundsvall, is a Swedish professional football club based in Sundsvall. The club is affiliated with Medelpads Fotbollförbund and plays its h ...

. He made his professional debut on 22 July, coming on as a substitute for fellow debutant David Batanero in a 2–2 away draw against

Halmstads BK Halmstads Bollklubb, also known simply as Halmstad () or (especially locally) HBK or Bollklubben, is a Swedish Association football, football club located in Halmstad in the county of Halland. The club, formed 7 February 1914 and approved members ...

for the

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

championship.

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Carlos Moros profile
at Temple Owls * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moros, Carlos 1993 births Living people People from Sagunto Footballers from the Province of Valencia Spanish men's footballers Men's association football defenders Tercera División players Ekstraklasa players I liga players Allsvenskan players Atlético Saguntino players GIF Sundsvall players ŁKS Łódź players Mjällby AIF players Spanish expatriate men's footballers Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Poland