Sergio Aragoneses

Sergio Aragoneses

Personal information
Full name	Sergio Aragoneses Almeida
Date of birth	(1977-02-01) 1 February 1977
Place of birth	Porriño, Spain
Height
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	None
Youth career
1994–1996	Celta
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–1998	Celta B	17	(0)
1998–1999	Sporting Guardés
1999–2000	Pontevedra	37	(0)
2000–2003	Tenerife	77	(0)
2003	Getafe	21	(0)
2004–2005	Atlético Madrid	14	(0)
2005	→ Getafe (loan)	11	(0)
2005–2006	Elche	16	(0)
2006–2008	Hércules	23	(0)
2008	Numancia	0	(0)
2008–2014	Tenerife	185	(0)
2014	Cádiz	13	(0)
2014–2015	Marino	22	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 December 2015

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Aragoneses and the second or maternal family name is Almeida.

Sergio Aragoneses Almeida (born 1 February 1977) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

His professional career, mainly associated with Tenerife, saw him appear in 180 Segunda División games over the course of nine seasons. He added 87 matches in La Liga, also representing in the competition Atlético Madrid and Getafe.

Football career

Aragoneses was born in Porriño, Galicia. After unsuccessfully emerging through Celta de Vigo's youth ranks he went on to represent local Sporting Guardés and Pontevedra CF, moving to CD Tenerife for the 2000–01 season and helping the Canary Islands club return to La Liga immediately.

Aragoneses made his top flight debuts in the 2001–02 campaign (in a 0–2 home loss against Deportivo Alavés), and went on to have unassuming spells with Madrid's Getafe CF and Atlético, which loaned him to Getafe as well. In 2005–06 he signed for second division side Elche CF, being diagnosed with testicular cancer shortly after; he missed a great part of the campaign, but was still able to finish it.

After joining Hércules CF – also in the Valencian Community and in the second level – in 2006, Aragoneses was again diagnosed with the ailment, this time being forced to undergo chemotherapy but eventually fully recovering and returning to the team lineups.

In early 2008 Aragoneses was suspended by club coach Andoni Goikoetxea, after statements by the player which were seen as "an act of indiscipline", being eventually released and signing almost immediately with CD Numancia, which had lost first-choice Jacobo to a severe knee injury.

In July 2008, after having made no official appearances for the Soria squad, he returned to Tenerife after a five-year absence: after winning the battle for first-choice with Luis García, however, he was sidelined until the end of the season with a case of acute pancreatitis. Once again he fully recovered, being the undisputed starter in 2009–10's top flight (all matches and minutes in an eventual relegation, only certified however in the last round).

External links

• Sergio Aragoneses profile at BDFutbol
• Sergio Aragoneses at Soccerway