Chota (footballer)
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mustafá Abdesalam Mohand | ||
Date of birth | 5 April 1975 | ||
Place of birth | Melilla, Spain | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Peña Real Madrid | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1994–1995 | SC Constitución | ||
1995–1996 | Real de Melilla | ||
1996–1997 | Melilla B | ||
1997 | Gimnástico Melilla | ||
1997–1998 | Don Benito | ||
1998–1999 | Alicante | ||
1999–2000 | Dénia | 29 | (11) |
2000 | Gandía | 8 | (0) |
2000–2002 | Levante B | 26 | (7) |
2002–2003 | Levante | 31 | (5) |
2003–2004 | Numancia | 12 | (1) |
2004 | Hércules | 12 | (1) |
2004–2015 | Melilla | 352 | (82) |
2015–2016 | River Melilla | 14 | (4) |
Total | 484 | (111) | |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Mustafá Abdesalam Mohand (born 5 April 1975), known as Chota, is a Spanish former footballer who played as a striker.
He played mostly for Melilla during a 21-year senior career, appearing in 367 competitive games for the club and scoring 87 goals.
Club career[]
Born in Melilla, Chota spent his first years as a senior in amateur football. He played part of the 2001–02 season and the entire 2002–03 campaign with Levante UD in the Segunda División. He also had a brief spell in that tier with CD Numancia.[1]
Most of Chota's career, however, was spent with UD Melilla in Segunda División B (which he first joined in 1996 in order to represent its reserves), going on to surpass the 300-mark in official games and score more than 75 goals.[2][3][4][5] He retired at the end of 2014–15 at the age of 40, amidst accusations of mistreatment.[6]
References[]
- ^ Breve enciclopedia numantina (Brief numantina encyclopedia); Desde Soria, 29 May 2013 (in Spanish)
- ^ Dos goles de Chota le dan al Melilla un triunfo más que merecido en El Ejido (Two Chota goals give Melilla totally deserved win in El Ejido); Diario Sur, 5 December 2011 (in Spanish)
- ^ Histórica victoria copera del Melilla (Historic cup win for Melilla); El Faro de Ceuta, 18 October 2012 (in Spanish)
- ^ Un festín histórico (1–6) (Historic feast (1–6)); UD Melilla, 22 September 2013 (in Spanish)
- ^ Chota se convierte en el máximo goleador de la historia del club azulino (Chota becomes top scorer in the azulino club's history) Archived 20 December 2013 at archive.today; El Diario Digital de Melilla, 26 September 2013 (in Spanish)
- ^ Chota: “Me parece vergonzoso el trato del club hacia mi persona” (Chota: "The club's treatment of my person is in my view shameful"); Melilla Hoy, 2015 (in Spanish)
External links[]
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Spanish sportspeople of Moroccan descent
- Spanish Muslims
- Spanish footballers
- Moroccan footballers
- Footballers from Melilla
- Association football forwards
- Segunda División players
- Segunda División B players
- Tercera División players
- Alicante CF footballers
- CF Gandía players
- Atlético Levante UD players
- Levante UD footballers
- CD Numancia players
- Hércules CF players
- UD Melilla footballers