Mustafá Abdesalam Mohand (born 5 April 1975), known as Chota, is a Spanish former

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who played as a striker. He played mostly for

Melilla Melilla (, ; ) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. It lies on the eastern side of the Cape Three Forks, bordering Morocco and facing the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of . It was part of the Province of Málaga un ...

in a 22-year senior career, appearing in 367 competitive games for the club and scoring 87 goals.

Club career

Born in

, Chota spent his first years as a senior in amateur football. He played part of the 2001–02 season and the entire 2002–03 campaign with

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in the

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, scoring his first goal in the competition on 13 January 2002 in a 1–1 home draw against

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. He also had a brief spell in that tier with

CD Numancia Club Deportivo Numancia de Soria, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club in Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded on 9 April 1945, it plays in , holding home games at '' Nuevo Estadio Los Pajaritos''. Besides football it ...

. Most of Chota's career, however, was spent with

UD Melilla Unión Deportiva Melilla is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in the autonomous city of Melilla. Founded in 1976, it currently plays in , holding home matches at ''Estadio Municipal Álvarez Claro'', with an 8,000 capac ...

in the

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(which he first joined in 1996 in order to represent its reserves), going on to surpass the 300-mark in official matches and score more than 75 goals. He retired at the end of 2014–15 at the age of 40, amidst accusations of mistreatment.Chota: “Me parece vergonzoso el trato del club hacia mi persona” (Chota: "The club's treatment of my person is in my view shameful")
Melilla Hoy, 2015 (in Spanish)

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