Tomás Pina Isla (born 14 October 1987) is a Spanish professional

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who currently plays as a central midfielder for Chinese Super League club

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. He amassed La Liga totals of 301 matches and eight goals over 12 seasons, with

Mallorca Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...

, Villarreal and Alavés. He also played in Belgium and China.

Club career

Mallorca

Pina was born in Villarta de San Juan,

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, Castile-La Mancha. After finishing his football development with amateurs

CD Móstoles Club Deportivo Móstoles was a Spanish football team from Móstoles, a city in the southern metropolitan area of Madrid. Founded in 1955 and dissolved in 2012 it played its last season in Tercera División, holding home matches at ''Estadio El ...

, he moved to

RCD Mallorca Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, S.A.D. (, ca, Reial Club Deportiu Mallorca , ''Royal Sporting Club Mallorca''), commonly known as Real Mallorca or just Mallorca is a Spanish professional football club based in Palma on the island of Majorca in ...

in the summer of 2008. Pina made his professional – and La Liga – debut with the latter on 31 January 2010, playing the last ten minutes in a 2–1 away loss against Xerez CD after coming on as a substitute for

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. He spent the vast majority of his first professional season with the reserve team, in the

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Villarreal

On 5 July 2013, after Mallorca's top-flight relegation, Pina signed a five-year deal with Villarreal CF, in turn promoted. He scored his first goal for his new team on 4 October, starting and netting the last in a 3–0 home win over Granada CF. Pina was heavily played during his three-year spell at the Estadio El Madrigal by manager

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, whether as a starter or a replacement. In the 2015–16 campaign he appeared in 36 games in all competitions, his only goal helping oust

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from the UEFA Europa League as his 59th-minute long-range lob from the left flank earned a 1–1 away draw and a 2–1 aggregate victory in the

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Brugge and Alavés

On 4 July 2016, the 28-year-old Pina moved abroad for the first time in his career, joining

Club Brugge KV (), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,062.

from Belgium until 2020. On 7 August of the following year, he returned to Spain and its top tier after agreeing to a one-year loan deal with Deportivo Alavés with a

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. On 12 August 2018, Pina signed a permanent three-year contract with the ''Glorioso''.

Henan Songshan Longmen

Pina joined

Henan Songshan Longmen F.C. Henan Songshan Longmen Football Club (), previously known as Henan Jianye Football Club (), is a professional Association football, football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Assoc ...

of the Chinese Super League on 28 July 2022.

Career statistics

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pina, Tomas 1987 births Living people People from Ciudad Real Sportspeople from the Province of Ciudad Real Spanish footballers Footballers from Castilla–La Mancha Association football midfielders La Liga players Segunda División B players Tercera División players CD Móstoles footballers RCD Mallorca B players RCD Mallorca players Villarreal CF players Deportivo Alavés players Belgian Pro League players Club Brugge KV players Chinese Super League players Henan Songshan Longmen F.C. players Spanish expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Belgium Expatriate footballers in China Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Spanish expatriate sportspeople in China