Ángel Manuel Vivar Dorado (born 12 February 1974) is a Spanish former

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who played mainly as an

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. He is currently

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club Alcalá. In an 18-year professional career, he represented mainly

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(five seasons),

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and

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(four apiece), appearing in 423 games and scoring 46 goals across both major levels of Spanish football – 296 matches and 23 goals in

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alone.

Playing career

Leganés

Born in

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, Vivar Dorado began his career at local

CD Leganés Club Deportivo Leganés, S.A.D. is a professional football club based in Leganés, Community of Madrid. They currently compete in La Liga, the first tier of the Spanish league system. Leganés was officially founded 23 June 1928 and played thei ...

in the

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. At the end of the 1992–93 season, the 19-year-old achieved promotion to

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, a first-ever for the club. Vivar Dorado scored a career-best ten goals in the following campaign, as they managed to stay up.

Tenerife

For 1994–95, Vivar Dorado signed with

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. He featured rarely under

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, but became a very important player for the next

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. Vivar Dorado was part of the squad that reached the semi-finals of the

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. He scored in both legs of the first round against

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, but was also

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in the first match of the last-four tie, a 1–0 win over

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Later career

Vivar Dorado moved to

in summer 1998 and, despite a top-division relegation in his third year, stayed with the side before joining

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of the same league in January 2002. This was to be another short spell, as he returned to the second tier with

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in August, helping the

-based team attain a first ever promotion to the top flight in

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and going on to make 161 competitive appearances during his tenure before switching to

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in July 2007; previously, on 10 May, he was one of three players on target in a 4–0 home victory against

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in the semi-finals of the

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, the 6–5 aggregate score meaning qualification for the final for the first time ever. On 6 January 2008, Vivar Dorado scored twice as Valladolid emerged victorious 3–0 at his former employers Getafe. He automatically earned a one-year extension after playing the minimum games required, being released at the end of the 2008–09 season at age 35 and quickly agreeing a move to

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in the second division; however, he arrived injured and, after no official matches for the

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club, was released from contract in January 2010 due to an

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injury, retiring shortly after.

Coaching career

Vivar Dorado started working as a manager with

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and Leganés' youth sides. On 17 June 2024, he was named head coach of

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club

RSD Alcalá Real Sociedad Deportiva Alcalá is a Spanish football team based in Alcalá de Henares in the Community of Madrid. Founded in 1929 it plays in Tercera División RFEF – Group 7, holding home matches at ''Estadio Municipal del Val'', with a capac ...

, promising he would leave at the end of the season if promotion was not achieved; it was, as champions.

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