Miguel Ángel Nieto de la Calle (; born 12 January 1986) is a Spanish professional

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who plays as a

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Club career

Real Madrid Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, th ...

youth graduate, Nieto was born in

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, and spent his first three professional seasons with its C-team. He sometimes trained with and was called up to the main squad, as against

Racing de Santander Real Racing Club de Santander, S.A.D. (), also known as Racing de Santander () or simply Racing, is a football club based in Santander, Spain, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, that currently competes in Segunda División, the second tier of the Spani ...

(18 November 2006) and

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(27 November), as an unused substitute. Nieto made his first-team debut in a match with

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for the 2006–07 edition of the

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, in a final group stage tie that ended with a 2–2 away draw. His

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debut was against

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on 27 January 2007, and he also appeared the next week against

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for two consecutive 0–1 defeats, although Madrid would be crowned league champions; in the latter match the player, who had replaced an injured

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, tried his luck with a shot which sliced the woodwork of

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's goal. After spending one full season with

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in the third division, Nieto signed a five-year deal with 2007–08's top flight overachievers

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on 1 July 2008, after finishing his contract with Real Madrid. Rarely played in his first year he did score an important goal, in a 3–1 home win against

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on 10 May 2009 which confirmed that the

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ns would remain in the top level for a further year. In late January 2011, having been severely undermined by injury problems under both

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and his successor José Luis Oltra but also being deemed surplus to requirements during

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's tenure as

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, Nieto was loaned to another side in the region, second level's

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, until the end of the campaign, also being rarely used. In July, he left the Estadio de los Juegos Mediterráneos.Nieto pone fin a tres años en la UD Almería marcados por las lesiones (Nieto ends three years at UD Almería marked by injuries)
Ideal, 19 July 2011 (in Spanish)

Honours

Real Madrid *

: 2006–07 Racing Santander *

Segunda División B Segunda División B (English: second division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish ...

: 2013–14

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