Miguel Ledo Elvira (26 October 1990 – 4 November 2024) was a Spanish

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who played as a

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. He spent most of his career from 2009 to 2022 with SD Logroñés.

Career

Born in

Logroño Logroño ( , , ) is the capital of the autonomous community of La Rioja (Spain), La Rioja, Spain. Located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, primarily in the right (South) bank of the Ebro River, Logroño has historically been a place of pa ...

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, Ledo played as a youth for Peña Balsamaiso CF and CD Berceo. In April 2009, he signed for a club to be set up by fans of the recently defunct

CD Logroñés Club Deportivo Logroñés, S.A.D. was a Spanish football team based in Logroño, in the autonomous community of La Rioja. Founded in 1940, it last played in '' Regional Preferente de La Rioja''. Due to financial problems, since 2009 the club ha ...

; this club was launched two months later as SD Logroñés. He started in the club's first game, a 4–0 loss to CD Arnedo on 1 August.

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since 2014, Ledo was dubbed "The Play-Off King" by local newspaper ''La Rioja'' in May 2019 for having played all seven play-off campaigns of the ten-year-old club. Ledo combined his football career with study and other work, including as a teacher and a school dining hall monitor. He had to give this up for his final season in 2021–22, as the club switched to training in the morning. In the same season, he played only 80 minutes in total up to February, though he scored twice. This included a late equaliser away to

Deportivo de La Coruña Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña (), commonly known as Deportivo La Coruña () or simply Depor, is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia, that competes in the Segunda División, the ...

in a 1–1 draw on 1 October. In June 2022, SD Logroñés announced that Ledo was leaving the club. His 13 seasons had been spent in the Preferente Regional (1),

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 ...

(8),

Segunda División B Segunda División B (English: second division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish ...

(3) and Primera Federación (1). He made 290 appearances in total.

Personal life and death

Though his surname was native to Galicia, Ledo told ''

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'' that he had no known link to the northwestern region. In November 2023, while a player for Haro Deportivo of the Tercera Federación, Ledo made public that he had

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. He recovered but his condition returned, and he died on 4 November 2024, at the age of 34.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ledo, Miguel 1990 births 2024 deaths Footballers from Logroño Spanish men's footballers Men's association football defenders SD Logroñés players Haro Deportivo players Tercera División players Segunda División B players Primera Federación players Deaths from leukemia in Spain