Juan Manuel Fuentes Fernández (born 13 November 1977) is a Spanish former
footballer
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. On the left side of the pitch, he could appear as either a
defender or a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Club career
Born in
Ordes
Ordes is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality of northwestern Spain in the A Coruña (province), province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. It belongs to the comarca of Ordes. The population in 2008 was 12,5 ...
,
Province of A Coruña, Fuentes spent his entire professional career, which consisted of 11 seasons, with
SD Ponferradina. In
2005–06, he started in all his 28 league appearances to help the
Galicians be promoted to
Segunda División
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for the first time in their history.
Fuentes played his first game as a professional on 27 August 2006 at the age of nearly 29, starting and being
booked in a 2–0 away loss against
Albacete Balompié. He again was first choice, but his team was
relegated at the end of the campaign.
Fuentes retired in June 2010 aged 32, having contributed 14 matches as ''Ponfe''
returned to the second tier. He appeared in 319 competitive games during his tenure with the club.
Honours
Ponferradina
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Segunda División B
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:
2009–10
References
External links
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1977 births
Living people
People from Ordes (comarca)
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from the Province of A Coruña
Men's association football fullbacks
Men's association football midfielders
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
SD Ponferradina B players
SD Ponferradina players