Mario Climent Plá (born 30 January 2002) is a Spanish

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who plays as a

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for

Cádiz CF Cádiz Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a Spanish professional football club based in Cádiz, Andalusia. Founded in 1910, the club competes in Segunda División, holding home games at Nuevo Mirandilla, with a seating capacity of 20,724. Salvadoran ...

Career

Born in

Jijona Jijona () or Xixona () is a town and municipality in the Valencian Community on the eastern coast of Spain. Turrón The town is famous for a type of soft nougat, known in Spanish as '' Turrón de Jijona'' and in Valencian as ''Torró de Xixona'' ...

Alicante Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: ''/'' ) is a city and municipalities of Spain, municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean port. The population ...

Valencian Community The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid wit ...

, Climent represented

Kelme CF Kelme Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club located in Elche, Alicante Province. It is a club with strong philosophy of football academy and does not have a senior team. Kelme CF derives its name from the sportswear firm Kelme. The philosoph ...

Elche CF Elche Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. () is a Spanish professional football club based in Elche, Province of Alicante, in the Valencian Community, Spain. Founded in 1923, the club will compete in La Liga for the 2025–26 season, holding home matches at ...

and

Levante UD Levante Unión Deportiva, S.A.D. () is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club in Valencia, in the Valencian Community, namesake autonomous community. Founded on 6 September 1909, the club will compete in La Liga for the 2025– ...

as a youth. In 2021, after finishing his formation, he was loaned to Tercera División RFEF side

Torrent CF Torrent Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Torrent, in the Valencian Community. Founded in 1922, this makes the club becomes the oldest football team in the Horta Sud city and one of the oldest in the Valencian Community. It play ...

, for one year. On 18 January 2022, Torrent announced Climent's return to Levante, and he was assigned to the reserves in Segunda División RFEF. He established himself as a starter during the 2022–23 season, before moving to another

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FC Cartagena B Fútbol Club Cartagena B is the reserve team of FC Cartagena, a Spanish football team based in Cartagena, in the autonomous community of Murcia. Founded in 2015, it currently plays in , holding home games at ''Estadio Ciudad Jardín''. History ...

, on 17 August 2023. On 28 June 2024, Climent agreed to a contract with

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side

Mérida AD Asociación Deportiva Mérida, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D. is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club based in Mérida, Spain, Mérida, in the autonomous community of Extremadura. Founded in 2013 it is a successor club of ...

. On 2 January 2025, he joined

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 ...

on a three-and-a-half-year deal, for a rumoured fee of

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100,000. Climent made his professional debut on 12 January 2025, coming on as a late substitute for

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in a 0–0 home draw against

. He scored his first professional goal six days later, netting his side's fourth in a 4–1 away routing of

CD Eldense Club Deportivo Eldense is a Spanish football team based in Elda, in the autonomous community of Valencia. Founded in 1921, the club plays in the Segunda División, and holds home matches at '' Estadio Municipal Nuevo Pepico Amat'', which has a ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Climent, Mario 2002 births Living people Footballers from the Province of Alicante Spanish men's footballers Men's association football fullbacks Segunda División players Primera Federación players Segunda Federación players Tercera Federación players Atlético Levante UD players Torrent CF players FC Cartagena B players Mérida AD players Cádiz CF players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen