Hugo Solozábal Granados (born 7 February 2003) is a Spanish professional

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who plays as a

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for

CD Leganés B Club Deportivo Leganés B is a Spanish football team from Leganés, in the Madrid outskirts. They are the reserve team of CD Leganés. They play in white shirts with blue stripes, and white shorts. Their home stadium is the Instalación Deportiva ...

Career

Solozábal was a youth player at Atletico Madrid. Ahead of the 2017-18 season he had the distinction of being one of the first players to perform at the recently built

Metropolitano Stadium Metropolitano Stadium (Spanish language, Spanish: ), also referred to as Riyadh Air Metropolitano Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium in Madrid, Spain. It has been the home stadium of Atlético Madrid since the 2017–18 Atlético Madri ...

when he took part in a demonstration with club legends

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and

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. Solozábal played for

Las Rozas CF Las Rozas Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in Las Rozas de Madrid, in the autonomous Community of Madrid. Founded in 1966 it plays in , holding home games at '' Polideportivo Dehesa de Navalcarbón'', which has a capacity of 3,000 ...

in the

Tercera Federación Tercera Federación, previously known as Tercera RFEF, is the fifth tier of the Spanish football league system. It is below the ''La Liga'', ''Segunda División'', and its fellow semi-professional divisions '' Primera Federación'' and ''Segunda F ...

for whom he featured 24 times in the 2022–23 season prior to joining

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 July 2023, being initially assigned to the reserves in the same category. He scored four goals in his first three games for Leganés B at the start of the 2023–24 season. Solozábal made his senior debut for ''Lega'' in the

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on 1 November 2023, against

AD Llerenense Agrupación Deportiva Llerenense is a football team based in Llerena, in the autonomous community of Extremadura. Founded in 1967, it plays in , holding home matches at the '' Estadio Fernando Robina'', with a capacity of 1,000 people. Season to ...

Personal life

He is the son of Spanish former international footballer Roberto Solozábal. His brother Iker Solozábal Granados is a triathlete.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Solozabal, Hugo 2003 births Living people Footballers from Madrid Spanish men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Tercera Federación players Las Rozas CF players CD Leganés B players CD Leganés players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen