Philippe Dominique Toledo (born 18 December 1983) is a French former professional
footballer
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Born in Avignon, Toledo played youth football with Nîmes. Not yet aged 18, he moved to Spain where he would remain the following decade, in representation of Zaragoza B,
Elche
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Real Jaén
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,El francés Toledo, el 'nueve' elegido (Frenchman Toledo, the chosen 'nine')
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, 1 August 2009 (in Spanish)
Ceuta
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Gandía
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,El jugador Philippe Toledo es la apuesta del CF Gandia para salir de la crisis goleadora (Player Philippe Toledo is CF Gandia's bet to end goalscoring crisis)
Las Provincias
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, 1 February 2012 (in Spanish) and Guadalajara; he went on to amass Segunda División and Segunda División B totals of 356 games and 94 goals, notably scoring five times for Zaragoza's reserves in a 7–3 away victory over Peralta on 6 April 2003.
In the 2005–06 season and the first half of the following campaign, Toledo had his first and only experience as a professional, with second-tier club Elche. He scored in his debut in the competition, a 1–1 home draw against
Eibar
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Eibar has 27,138 inhabitants ( Eusta ...
on 29 January of that year. In July 2007, following a loan at Levante B, he was released.
Toledo also played in his native France, and scored 6 goals in 30 matches for Villefranche and 18 goals in 53 games for Le Pontet.