Roque Mesa
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Roque Mesa Quevedo | ||
| Date of birth | 7 June 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Las Palmas, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Las Palmas | ||
| Number | 15 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Levante | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2007–2009 | Levante B | 70 | (4) |
| 2009–2010 | Huracán | ||
| 2010 | Tenerife B | 16 | (0) |
| 2010–2014 | Las Palmas B | 68 | (14) |
| 2011– | Las Palmas | 85 | (5) |
| 2012–2013 | → Atlético Baleares (loan) | 33 | (3) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 March 2016. | |||
Roque Mesa Quevedo (born 7 June 1989) is a Spanish footballer who plays for UD Las Palmas as a midfielder.
Club career
Born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Mesa completed his formation with Levante UD's youth system, and made his senior debuts with the reserves in the 2007–08 season, in Tercera División. He left the club in the 2009 summer, and signed with AD Huracán.[1]
On 26 January 2010, Mesa joined CD Tenerife B from Segunda División B.[2] Six months later he signed with another reserve team, UD Las Palmas B in the fourth level, being promoted to the main squad the following year.[3]
On 8 October 2011, Mesa appeared in his first game as a professional, starting in a 2–1 away win against Celta de Vigo for the Segunda División championship.[4] He finished the campaign with 22 appearances (ten starts, 947 minutes of action) and, on 31 August of the following year, he was loaned to CD Atlético Baleares in the third division.[5]
Subsequently, Mesa returned to Las Palmas was its B-side, freshly promoted to the third tier. On 28 November 2013 he signed a new four-year deal, running until 2017,[6] and was definitely promoted to the first team in July of the following year.[7]
Mesa scored his first professional goal on 1 November 2014, netting his team's second in a 2–1 home success over Albacete Balompié.[8] He appeared in 35 matches and scored four goals during the season, which ended in promotion to La Liga after a 13-year absence.
Mesa made his debut in the main category of Spanish football on 22 August 2015, in a 0–1 loss at Atlético Madrid.[9]
References
- ↑ Claudio Valerón y Roque refuerzan al Schamann (Claudio Valerón and Roque bolster Schamann); La Provincia, 8 October 2009 (Spanish)
- ↑ El filial ficha a Roque Mesa (The reserves sign Roque Mesa); La Opinión de Tenerife, 26 January 2010 (Spanish)
- ↑ Roque, una apuesta para el primer equipo (Roque, a bid for the first team); La Provincia, 5 July 2011 (Spanish)
- ↑ Las Palmas también pesca en el chollo de Balaídos (Las Palmas also fishes something out of Balaídos); Marca, 8 October 2011 (Spanish)
- ↑ Roque, cedido al Atlético Baleares, de Segunda B (Roque, loaned to Atlético Baleares, from Segunda B); Fútbol Balear, 31 August 2012 (Spanish)
- ↑ Las Palmas Atlético, Roque Mesa renueva hasta 2017 (Las Palmas Atlético, Roque Mesa renews until 2017); esFutbol, 28 November 2013 (Spanish)
- ↑ Roque Mesa cree que debe ser un jugador "importante" en Las Palmas (Roque Mesa believes he should be an "important" player in Las Palmas); Mundo Deportivo, 21 July 2014 (Spanish)
- ↑ La UD falla mucho ante el colista y acaba ganando por la mínima (UD fails much against the last and ends up winning by the odd goal); Marca, 1 November 2014 (Spanish)
- ↑ Al Atlético le falta (Atlético lacks something); Marca, 22 August 2015 (Spanish)
External links
- Roque Mesa profile at BDFutbol
- Roque Mesa profile at Futbolme (Spanish)
- Roque Mesa profile at Soccerway
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