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Iván Cuéllar Sacristán (born 27 May 1984), nicknamed Pichu, is a Spanish professional
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who plays as a
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for
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club
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. Developed at
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, he spent most of his career with
Sporting de Gijón Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. (), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting is a Spanish professional association football, football club from Gijón, Principality of Asturias. Founded on 1 July 1905, it plays in the ...
, where he made 247 total appearances.


Club career


Atlético Madrid

Cuéllar was born in Mérida,
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, and earned his nickname "Pichu" –
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for a young boy – from a cousin. He spent time at
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before continuing his development at hometown club Mérida UD, where he made his senior debut aged 17 in a 1–0 loss away to
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in
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. After completing his youth career at
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, he made his first appearance for the first team in the last matchday of the 2004–05 season, in a 2–2 draw against neighbours
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. In 2006–07, benefitting from the forced absence of starter Leo Franco, Cuéllar played a further seven games, including a 0–6 home defeat to
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on 20 May 2007.


Sporting Gijón

After a
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-long loan at
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club
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, featuring in all the matches save four, Cuéllar was released by Atlético (as another youth graduate in the same position,
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) and joined
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in August 2008, on a four-year contract. After Sergio Sánchez conceded 19 goals in the season's first four games he became the starter but, following a collision with
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's Carlos Gurpegui during a 3–0 away defeat on 14 December, suffered a serious
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injury which rendered him unavailable for four months. In mid-November 2009, as he was second choice to
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, Cuéllar suffered another severe injury, damaging his
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in training and being lost for the vast majority of the campaign. His first appearance after recovering would take place on 22 September 2010, as manager Manuel Preciado rested the vast majority of the starters for a Wednesday match at Barcelona – in a week where all the teams played three matches – which ended in a 1–0 loss. In January 2013, after the departure of Juan Pablo to
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, Cuéllar became the starter. He won the
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for best goalkeeper in 2014–15, conceding 21 goals in 36 appearances as the
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returned to
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. At the end of the season, he extended his contract until 2018.


Leganés

Cuéllar ended his nine-year association with the
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-based team in July 2017, and the 33-year-old signed for
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also in the top tier. As Jon Ander Serantes was nursing a serious injury, he took the number one position and went on to record a club and personal best
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of over 500 minutes that was broken by
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in October.


Return to Sporting

On 29 August 2021, Cuéllar returned to Sporting on a two-year contract. He was second-choice to Diego Mariño and did not play until 20 March when he profited from the latter's injury to play in a 1–1 draw at Leganés; he then had a run of ten consecutive games in which he kept only two clean sheets but never conceded more than once, as the team narrowly avoided relegation.


Mallorca

On 28 August 2023, Cuéllar signed a one-year deal with top-tier
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, in order to provide competition for Dominik Greif and Predrag Rajković.


Career statistics


Honours

Spain U23 *
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:
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Individual *
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:
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/ Best Goalkeeper 2014–15


References


External links


Sporting Gijón official profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuellar, Ivan 1984 births Living people 21st-century Spanish sportsmen Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Mérida, Spain Men's association football goalkeepers La Liga players Segunda División players Segunda División B players Mérida UD footballers Atlético Madrid B players Atlético Madrid footballers SD Eibar footballers Sporting de Gijón players CD Leganés players RCD Mallorca players Spain men's under-21 international footballers Spain men's under-23 international footballers Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in football Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain