Alberto Ortiz Moreno (born 24 May 1985), known as Tito, is a Spanish former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Born in

Santa Coloma de Gramenet Santa Coloma de Gramenet (), informally simply known as Santa Coloma, and formerly as ''Gramenet de Besòs'' between 1936 and 1939, is a municipality in Barcelonès county, in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the south-east side of the Catal ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of 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 c ...

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

, Tito's professional input in his country consisted of 120

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spa ...

matches and five goals over four seasons in service of

UE Llagostera C.F. Badalona Futur Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D. is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Badalona, Province of Barcelona, Barcelona, in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. Founded in 1947, it currently plays ...

UCAM Murcia CF Universidad Católica de Murcia Club de Fútbol, commonly known as UCAM Murcia or simply UCAM, is a Spanish football club based in Murcia. Founded in 1999 it plays in , holding home games at '' Estadio de La Condomina'', with a capacity of 6,5 ...

and

CF Reus Deportiu Club de Futbol Reus Deportiu, S.A.D. was a Spanish football team based in Reus, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Founded in 1909, it last competed in the Segunda Division (while its B team competed in the Tercera Division) before ...

. His first appearance in that tier took place on 23 August 2014 in a 2–0 away loss against

UD Las Palmas Unión Deportiva Las Palmas S.A.D. is a professional association football, football club based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. The club will compete in Segunda División, the 2nd division in the Spanish football league syst ...

as a Llagostera player, and he scored his first goal the following 2 May for the same club to close the 2–2 draw at

Real Betis Real Betis Balompié, known as Real Betis () is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It plays in La Liga, the Spanish football league system, top flight of Spanish football. It plays home ...

. Abroad, Tito competed in the Polish

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with

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and the

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with

Sandefjord Fotball Sandefjord Fotball, often referred to simply as Sandefjord, is a Norwegian professional football club founded on September 10, 1998. The team currently competes in Eliteserien, the top division of the Norwegian football league system, and plays ...

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* * * * 1985 births Living people 21st-century Spanish sportsmen Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Santa Coloma de Gramenet Men's association football midfielders Segunda División players Segunda División B players UDA Gramenet footballers RCD Espanyol B footballers Benidorm CF footballers Som Maresme FC players UCAM Murcia CF players CF Reus Deportiu players Ekstraklasa players Legia Warsaw players Norwegian First Division players Sandefjord Fotball players Spanish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Poland Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Norway {{Spain-footy-midfielder-stub