José Martínez Marsà (born 4 March 2002) is a Spanish professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as a defender for

Sporting de Gijón Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. (), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting (although in an international context this can lead to confusion with Sporting Clube de Portugal) is a Spanish football club from Gijón, P ...

, on loan from Portuguese club

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional fo ...

Club career

Born in

Esplugues de Llobregat Esplugues de Llobregat () is a municipality of the Barcelona metropolitan area. Formerly in the ''Barcelonès'', since 1990 it has been part of the Comarques of Catalonia, comarca of Baix Llobregat. During recent decades Esplugues has evolved fro ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ...

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...

, Marsà was a youth product of

La Masia La Masia de Can Planes, usually shortened to La Masia (; en, "The Farmhouse"), is a term used for FC Barcelona's youth academy. The academy includes more than 300 young players. It has been an instrumental factor in Barcelona's European succes ...

. He began his senior career with

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in 2020. On 1 July 2021, he transferred to the Portuguese club

, initially heading to their reserves. Marsà made his professional debut with Sporting in a 4–0

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win over Santa Clara on 14 May 2022, coming on as a sub in the 79th minute. On 31 January 2023, he returned to Spain after being loaned to Segunda División side

for the remainder of the season.

International career

Marsà is a youth international for Spain, having represented their Spain U17s and U18s. He represented the Spain U17s at the

2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup The 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the 18th edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It was hosted by Brazil betw ...

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Sporting profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marsa, Jose 2002 births Living people People from Esplugues de Llobregat Sportspeople from the Province of Barcelona Spanish footballers Spain youth international footballers FC Barcelona Atlètic players Sporting CP B players Sporting CP footballers Sporting de Gijón players Primeira Liga players Primera Federación players Segunda Divisão players Spanish expatriate footballers Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Portugal Men's association football defenders