Óscar Valero Navarro (born 28 August 1985) is a Spanish
footballer
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who plays for
SD Ejea as a
right defender.
Club career
Born in
Zaragoza
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,
Aragon
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, Valero started playing senior football with local
UD Casetas in the
2002–03 season, in
Tercera División
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. In 2004, he joined
CD Mirandés
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, in
Segunda División B
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.
In 2005 summer Valero signed with
Real Zaragoza
Real Zaragoza, S.A.D. (), commonly referred to as Zaragoza, is a football club based in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, that currently competes in the Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish football league system, Spanish league system. Zarag ...
, being initially assigned to
the reserves also in the third level. On 25 November 2007 he made his first-team – and
La Liga
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debut, starting in a 1–1 home draw against
Getafe CF
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; he finished
the season with just four appearances, totalling 185 minutes of action, and the main squad also suffered relegation.
Valero was released by Zaragoza in 2009, and went on to resume his career in the third level, representing
CF Atlético Ciudad,
Benidorm CF and
CD Guijuelo
Club Deportivo Guijuelo is a Spanish football team based in Guijuelo, Province of Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded in 1974 it plays in , holding home games at the 1,500-seat '' Estadio Municipal de Guijuelo''. ...
.
El Guijuelo ficha al lateral derecho Óscar Valero (Guijuelo signs right-back Óscar Valero)
La Gaceta de Salamanca, 7 July 2011
References
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1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Zaragoza
Spanish men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
La Liga players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
CD Mirandés footballers
Deportivo Aragón players
Real Zaragoza players
Benidorm CF footballers
CD Guijuelo footballers
CD Tudelano footballers
CD Ebro players
SD Ejea players
21st-century Spanish sportsmen
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