Miguel Rodríguez Vidal (born 29 April 2003) is a Spanish

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who plays mainly as a

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for Dutch club

FC Utrecht Football Club Utrecht () is a Dutch professional association football, football club based in Utrecht. The club competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football league system, Dutch football, and plays its home matches at the Stadion ...

Club career

Born in

Redondela Redondela is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra (province), Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the Comarcas of Galicia, comarca of Vigo (comarca), Vigo. The most famous icons of the ...

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a city in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. It is the capital of both the ''Pontevedra (comarca), Comarca'' and Province of Pontevedra, and the capital of the Rías Baixas. It is als ...

, Galicia, Rodríguez joined

RC Celta de Vigo Real Club Celta de Vigo (; ), commonly known as Celta Vigo, is a Spanish professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football. Nicknamed ''Os Celestes'' (The Sky Blues), the club was fou ...

's youth setup in 2013, from

CD Choco Club Deportivo Choco de Redondela is a Spanish football club based in Redondela, province of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. Founded in 1953, the team currently plays in . The club's home ground is ''Campo Municipal de Santa Mariña''. Season to s ...

. In 2020, before even having appeared for the reserves, he was called up to make the pre-season with the main squad. Rodríguez made his first team – and

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– debut on 4 October 2020, coming on as a late substitute for

Nolito Manuel Agudo Durán (; born 15 October 1986), known as Nolito (), is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a winger or a forward. Having begun his career at lower league clubs he signed for Barcelona in 2008, playing predomin ...

in a 0–2 away loss to

CA Osasuna Club Atlético Osasuna (, ''Osasuna Athletic Club''), or simply Osasuna, is a Spanish professional football club based in Pamplona, Navarre. It was founded on 24 October 1920 and plays in La Liga, the top division of Spanish football. The team's ...

; aged 17 years and 159 days, he became the fourth-youngest to debut for the club, behind Sansón (the second-youngest of the league's history), Iago Bouzón and Santi Mina. He scored his first professional goal on 7 April 2023, netting his team's first in a 2–2 away draw against

Sevilla FC Sevilla Fútbol Club () is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in Seville, Andalusia, that competes in La Liga, the Spanish football league system, top flight of Spanish football. The club was formed on 25 January ...

. On 5 July 2024, Rodríguez was loaned to Dutch

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side

for the 2024–25 season.

Personal life

Rodríguez's younger brother Pedro is also a footballer. A

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, he too represented Choco and Celta as a youth.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez, Miguel 2003 births Living people Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Redondela Men's association football wingers La Liga players Primera Federación players Segunda División B players RC Celta Fortuna players RC Celta de Vigo players FC Utrecht players Spain men's youth international footballers Spanish expatriate men's footballers Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands 21st-century Spanish sportsmen