Daniel 'Dani' Espejo Guillén (born 23 July 1993) is a Spanish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays for

Algeciras CF Algeciras Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Algeciras, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1909 it plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 1, holding home matches at '' Estadio Nuevo Mirador''. History Foo ...

. Mainly a

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, he can also play as a

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Club career

Born in Córdoba, Andalusia, Espejo finished his formation with local

Córdoba CF Córdoba Club de Fútbol (), is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club based in Córdoba, Andalusia, Córdoba, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1954 after the dissolution of RCD Córdoba. Currently it plays ...

, making his senior debuts with the reserves in 2011. On 29 September 2013 he played his first official game with the first team, starting in a 2–0 home win over

Girona FC Girona Futbol Club, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D. ( ) is a Spanish professional Football team, football club based in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Founded on 23 July 1930, the team plays in La Liga, to which they gained promotion in the 2022 ...

in the

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 ...

championship. On 21 July 2014, Espejo joined another

reserve team In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players who are under contract to a club but who do not regularly play in matches for the club's primary team. Reserve teams usually include players who are part of the larger first-team squad but ...

Atlético Madrid B Atlético de Madrid B is a Spanish football team based in Madrid. Founded on 17 September 1963, it is the reserve team of Atlético Madrid and currently plays in Primera Federación – Group 2. They play their home games at Cerro del Espin ...

.El Atlético ficha para el filial a Dani Espejo, del Córdoba (Atlético sign Dani Espejo for the reserves, from Córdoba)

Diario AS ''Diario AS'' () (sometime stylized as ''AS'' or ''As''; ) is a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on association football. Profile ''Diario AS'' is part of PRISA which also owns ''El País'' and ''Cinco Días''. The ...

, 21 July 2014 (in Spanish) He left the side in 2016, and subsequently represented

Tercera División Tercera División () was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Until 1977, it was the third tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segund ...

sides CF Sant Rafel,

CD Ciudad de Lucena Club Deportivo Ciudad de Lucena is a Spanish football team based in Lucena, Córdoba, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 2008, it plays in , holding their home matches at '' Estadio Ciudad de Lucena,'' which can hold 5.000 peopl ...

and

Linares Deportivo Linares Deportivo () is a Spanish football team based in Linares, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 2009 as a replacement for dissolved CD Linares, it plays in Segunda Federación – Group 4. The team's stadium is '' Estadio ...

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* * * 1993 births Living people Footballers from Córdoba, Spain Spanish men's footballers Men's association football defenders Men's association football wingers Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Córdoba CF B players Córdoba CF players Atlético Madrid B players CD Ciudad de Lucena players Linares Deportivo footballers Algeciras CF footballers 21st-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-footy-midfielder-stub