Manuel Jiménez Abalo

Manuel Jiménez

Personal information
Full name	Manuel Enrique Jiménez Abalo
Date of birth	27 October 1956 (1956-10-27) (age 55)
Place of birth	Vilagarcía de Arousa, Spain
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Centre back
Youth career
	Carril
	Arosa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
	Arosa
1979–1991	Sporting Gijón	420	(8)
1991–1992	Burgos	38	(0)
National team
1980–1981	Spain B	6	(0)
1981	Spain	1	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Jiménez and the second or maternal family name is Ábalo.

Manuel Enrique Jiménez Abalo (born 27 October 1956 in Vilagarcía de Arousa, Pontevedra, Galicia) is a former Spanish footballer, who played as a central defender.

Football career

During his professional career, Jiménez Abalo played for Sporting de Gijón and Real Burgos CF. With the Asturias club, he spent 12 of his 13 seasons, appearing in nearly 500 official matches - in La Liga he never played in less than 30 games, and helped the club to the fourth place in 1986–87, after contributing with 43 matches (3870 minutes).

With Burgos, in his final season, Jiménez played in all the matches and minutes, and the modest Castile and León retained its top level status, with the eighth best defensive record in the league; he retired at nearly 36, and also earned one cap for Spain on November 18, 1981, a 3–2 friendly win in Poland, being selected to the 1982 FIFA World Cup squad.

External links

• BDFutbol profile
• National team data (Spanish)
• Manuel Jiménez Abalo at National-Football-Teams.com

Persondata
Name	Jimenez, Manuel
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	27 October 1956
Place of birth	Vilagarcía de Arousa, Spain
Date of death
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