Pablo Moreno Taboada (born 3 May 2002) is a Spanish professional

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 as a

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Sm ...

for club Osasuna B.

Club career

Juventus

On 27 July 2018, Moreno joined Italian club

Juventus Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...

, after scoring more than 200 goals in 5 years for Barcelona youth teams. He made his

Serie C The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C. The unification of the Lega Pro ...

debut for

Juventus U23 Juventus Next Gen (), also known as Juve Next Gen or Juve NG (), is a professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, which acts as the reserve team of club Juventus. They compete in , and play their home games at the Stadio Giusepp ...

on 18 November 2018 in a game against

Pontedera Pontedera (; la, Pons Herae) is an italian comune with a population of 29.270 inhabitants, located in the province of Pisa, Tuscany, Central Italy, central Italy. The town is located 20 km (12 miles) from Pisa and 50 km (31 miles) from Florenc ...

as a 90th-minute substitute for Alessandro Di Pardo. Moreno made his first bench appearance for Juventus' senior squad on 17 March 2019 in a

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

game against

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...

Manchester City

On 30 June 2020,

Manchester City Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The tw ...

agreed to sign Moreno on a four-year deal, and to swap him with

Félix Correia Félix Alexandre Andrade Sanches Correia (born 22 January 2001) is a Portuguese professional footballer of Santomean descent, who plays as a forward for Primeira Liga club Gil Vicente, on loan from Juventus. Club career Manchester City Man ...

. On 18 September, he joined

Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan language, Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter River, Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in ...

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commercially known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administrated by the Lig ...

on loan. Upon returning, Moreno made his Manchester City debut on 27 July 2021, featuring as a substitute in a 2–0 friendly win against

Preston North End Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional football club in Preston, Lancashire, England, who currently play in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league syste ...

. On 31 August, he returned to Girona on a one-year loan deal.

Marítimo

On 29 July 2022, Moreno was joined Portuguese

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (; English: Premier League, also written as Liga Portugal 1), also known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga Portugal, ...

team Marítimo on a permanent contract, with Manchester City retaining the option to re-sign him with a "buy-back clause" included in the deal. Moreno made his Marítimo debut on 6 August, coming on as a late substitute in an away defeat to

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

on the opening day of the season. That

season A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperate and pol ...

, Moreno made 22 appearances in all competitions for Marítimo, but never managed to find the back of the net. After finishing 16th in the Primeira Liga, Marítimo faced Estrela da Amadora in the relegation/promotion ''play-offs'', where the

Madeira ) , anthem = ( en, "Anthem of the Autonomous Region of Madeira") , song_type = Regional anthem , image_map=EU-Portugal_with_Madeira_circled.svg , map_alt=Location of Madeira , map_caption=Location of Madeira , subdivision_type=Sovereign st ...

club was defeated in a penalty shootout, being relegated to the Liga Portugal 2 for the first time in 38 years. On 8 August 2023, Marítimo announced that Moreno's contract had been terminated by mutual agreement.

Andorra

On 10 August 2023, Moreno returned to Spain and its second division, after signing a two-year deal with

FC Andorra Futbol Club Andorra is a professional football club based in Andorra la Vella, Andorra, that currently competes in Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish league system. The club was founded in 1942 and currently plays its home fixtu ...

Osasuna B

On 27 July 2024, Moreno joined

Primera Federación The Primera Federación, formerly known as Primera División RFEF, is the third tier of the Spanish football league system beginning with the 2021–22 season. It is administered by the Royal Spanish Football Federation. It is below the top tw ...

– Group B club Osasuna B on an initial one-year deal with the option to extend.

References

External links

* * 2002 births Living people Footballers from Granada Spanish men's footballers Spain men's youth international footballers Men's association football forwards Juventus Next Gen players Manchester City F.C. players Girona FC players C.S. Marítimo players FC Andorra players CA Osasuna B players Serie C players Segunda División players Primeira Liga players Spanish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Andorra Spanish expatriate sportspeople in England Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Italy Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Andorra {{Spain-footy-forward-stub