Pablo Coira Lojo (born 18 October 1979) is a Spanish retired

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who played mainly as a

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Football career

After starting playing professional football with local

SD Compostela Sociedad Deportiva Compostela is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Santiago de Compostela, in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. They play home matches at ''Estadio Multiusos de San Lázaro'', and ...

, in

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, Coira joined Galicia giants

Celta de Vigo Real Club Celta de Vigo (; ), commonly known as Celta de Vigo or simply Celta, 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 ...

in 1999, appearing sparingly throughout four

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seasons (maximum 18 league games in 2001–02). Shortly before joining Celta he represented

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at the

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, winning the tournament; also in the squad was teammate

Pablo Couñago Pablo González Couñago (born 9 August 1979) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a striker. After having played 35 La Liga matches for Celta and Málaga, scoring three goals (75 games and 11 goals both major levels of Spanish fo ...

, who was crowned the competition's top scorer. Subsequently, Coira had unassuming stints with

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– playing no matches in his final year, which ended in top flight relegation, and being loaned to

Recreativo de Huelva Real Club Recreativo de Huelva, S.A.D. () is a Spanish football club based in Huelva, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded on 23 December 1889, 2 days before Christmas, they are the oldest football club in Spain, and currently play i ...

in between – and

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club Aris Thessaloniki FC. He returned to Spain in January 2007 to play for lowly

UE Figueres Unió Esportiva Figueres is a Spanish football team based in Figueres, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Founded in 1919 and refounded in 2007 it plays in the Primera Catalana league, holding home matches at ''Estadi Municipal de Vilateni ...

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, named UE Casteldefells shortly after. In the 2008–09 campaign, Coira dropped down to

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 joined

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's B-team. The following year he moved countries for the second time in his career, signing with

Budapest Honvéd FC Budapest Honvéd Football Club (), commonly known as Budapest Honvéd or simply Honvéd, is a Hungarian sports club based in Kispest, Budapest, with the colours of red and black. The club is best known for its football team. ''Honvéd'' means th ...

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, where he played most of the time as a

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.Coira hace la competencia a Xavi en Hungría (Coira a competitor for Xavi in Hungary)
Marca, 24 May 2010 (in Spanish)

Honours

Club

;Celta *

UEFA Intertoto Cup The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from la, Inter, 'between' + german: toto, 'betting pool'),Most precisely, from (football pool); cf. often abbreviated and more known in the German-speaking world as UI Cup and originally called the International Foot ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

International

;Spain U20 *

FIFA World Youth Championship The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 when ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

References

External links

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Celta de Vigo biography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coira, Pablo 1979 births Living people Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Vilagarcía de Arousa Men's association football defenders Men's association football midfielders La Liga players Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players SD Compostela footballers RC Celta Fortuna players RC Celta de Vigo players Deportivo Alavés players Recreativo de Huelva players UE Figueres footballers RCD Espanyol B footballers Super League Greece players Aris Thessaloniki F.C. players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Budapest Honvéd FC players Spain men's youth international footballers Spain men's under-21 international footballers Spanish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Greece Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Hungary