José Luis Espinosa Arroyo (born 14 July 1991), known as Tiri, is a Spanish

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who plays for

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club ATK Mohun Bagan FC as a defender. He never played any higher than

Segunda División B Segunda División B ( en, Second Division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish Foot ...

in his own country, where he made 90 appearances for three clubs. He played over 100 matches in the

for ATK,

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and

ATK Mohun Bagan ATK Mohun Bagan FC () is an Indian professional football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. The club competes in Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian football. The club, which was formed as a merger between the football section of m ...

, winning the title with the first team in

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and being at one point the most-capped foreign player in the history of the competition.

Club career

Cádiz

Born in Los Barrios,

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, Tiri began his career at

Cádiz CF Cádiz Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., known simply as Cádiz, is a Spanish professional football club based in Cádiz, Andalusia. Founded in 1910, the club competes in the La Liga, holding home games at Nuevo Mirandilla, with a seating capacity of 20 ...

. He was mostly associated to the reserves during his spell and only collected two first-team appearances, the first occurring on 10 May 2009 at the age of 17 as he played the final 25 minutes of a 2–1

away win against

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. On 1 September 2010, Tiri played the full 90 minutes of a 3–1 home defeat of CE L'Hospitalet in the first round of the

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, at the

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Atlético Madrid

Tiri transferred to

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in 2012, being assigned to their B side also in the third tier. He was first choice during his three-year spell, being relegated to the

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in his last season.

ATK

On 18 June 2015, Tiri signed for

defending champions ATK at the same time as compatriot

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, joining Borja Fernández and

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in the club's Spanish contingent. An unused substitute for their first two matches of the campaign, he made his debut on 7 October by playing the entirety of a 1–1 draw at

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in place of

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, who was away playing internationally for

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. Tiri totalled 1,170 minutes of action, in an eventual elimination in the semi-finals by Chennaiyin FC.

Return to Atlético B

Tiri returned to Atlético Madrid and its B team on 1 February 2016. However, before playing a game for them, on 16 March he agreed terms to go back to Kolkata for the next season.

ATK return

Tiri played 11 matches in his second spell at the Salt Lake Stadium. One of those was in the ISL final, a penalty shootout victory over

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on 18 December 2016, thus winning him his first league title.

Marbella

On 24 January 2017, Tiri returned to Spain's third division, signing with

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in his native

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. In the second of his six appearances, he was sent off in a 2–1 home loss to

Lorca FC Lorca Fútbol Club was a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Lorca, Spain, Lorca, in the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia. Founded in 2003, it last played in Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol in the Region of ...

Jamshedpur

Tiri returned to the Indian top flight in July 2017, joining expansion team

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. He played every minute as they finished in fifth, one place off the playoffs, and scored in a 3–2 home win against Delhi Dynamos FC on 21 January 2018.

ATK Mohun Bagan

On 12 September 2020, Tiri moved to newly merged ATK Mohun Bagan FC. He made his official debut on 20 November, in a 1–0 away defeat of Kerala Blasters.

Career statistics

Honours

ATK *

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tiri 1991 births Living people People from Campo de Gibraltar Sportspeople from the Province of Cádiz Spanish footballers Footballers from Andalusia Association football defenders Segunda División B players Tercera División players Cádiz CF B players Cádiz CF players Atlético Madrid B players Marbella FC players Indian Super League players ATK (football club) players Jamshedpur FC players ATK Mohun Bagan FC players Spanish expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in India Spanish expatriate sportspeople in India