Héctor Rodas Ramírez (born 7 March 1988) is a Spanish professional

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who plays as a

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Club career

Born in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...

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 ...

, Rodas finished his development at local

Levante UD Levante Unión Deportiva, S.A.D. (, ca-valencia, Llevant Unió Esportiva ) is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club in Valencia, in the Valencian Community, namesake autonomous community. Founded on 9 September 1909, Levante ...

, and made his senior debut with the reserves, spending several years with them in the lower leagues. On 30 May 2009, he appeared in his first official game with the first team, starting in a 1–0 home win over Rayo Vallecano in the

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. In the 2009–10 season, Rodas played 22 matches for the ''Granotas'', who returned to

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after a two-year absence. He made his debut in the top flight on 28 August 2010, featuring the entire 1–4 home loss against

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. After playing only once in the first half of the 2011–12 campaign, a 3–1 defeat at Deportivo de La Coruña in the

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in which he was also sent off, Rodas was loaned to neighbouring Elche CF in January 2012. Returned to Levante, he made 21 competitive appearances in

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, including eight in the team's round-of-16 run in the

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.Héctor Rodas se desvincula del Levante UD (Héctor Rodas cuts ties with Levante UD)
Levante UD, 28 January 2015 (in Spanish) On 28 January 2015, Rodas terminated his contract with the club, and signed with

Real Betis Real Betis Balompié, known as Real Betis () or just Betis, is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1907, it plays in La Liga. It holds home games at the Estadio Benito Vill ...

of the second tier two days later. After appearing rarely, he moved to

Córdoba CF Córdoba Club de Fútbol (), (from the 2020–21 season onwards competing under the umbrella of Unión Futbolística Cordobesa, S.A.D.) is a Spanish football club based in Córdoba, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1951 as ...

in the same league on 27 June. Rodas joined

Cercle Brugge K.S.V. Cercle Brugge Koninklijke Sportvereniging () is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges. Cercle have played in the Belgian Pro League since the 2003–04 season, having previously spent several years in the Belgian Second Division ...

of the

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on a two-year contract on 11 July 2017. He returned to his country after only one season, however, going on to represent AD Alcorcón and Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa. On 11 August 2021, Rodas signed a one-year deal with

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side Odisha FC. He made his league debut on 24 November against Bengaluru FC in a 3–1 win, scoring a brace the following week in the 6–4 victory over SC East Bengal.

Career statistics

Honours

Betis *

: 2014–15 Cercle Brugge *

Belgian Second Division The Belgian Second Division (known as the Proximus League for sponsorship reasons) was the second-highest division in the Belgian football league system, one level below the Belgian Pro League. It was founded by the Royal Belgian Football Associa ...

: 2017–18

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodas, Hector 1988 births Living people Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Valencia Men's association football defenders La Liga players Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Segunda Federación players Atlético Levante UD players Levante UD footballers Elche CF players Real Betis players Córdoba CF players AD Alcorcón footballers Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa players Atlético Saguntino players Challenger Pro League players Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players Indian Super League players Odisha FC players Spanish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in India Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Spanish expatriate sportspeople in India