César Martín

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Personal information
César
Full name	César Martín Villar
Date of birth	April 3, 1977 (age 30)
Place of birth	Oviedo, Asturias
Height	1.85 m
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Bolton Wanderers
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994–99 1999–06 2006–07 2007–	Real Oviedo Deportivo de La Coruña Levante UD Bolton Wanderers	101 (6) 086 (1) 003 (0) 000 (0)
National team²
1999–	Spain	012 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:02, 2 February 2007 (UTC). ² National team caps and goals correct as of 16:02, 2 February 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

César Martín Villar (born April 3, 1977) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers. César started his professional career in 1994 playing for Real Oviedo. From there he moved to Deportivo La Coruña for approximately €7.4 million.^[1]At Deportivo he won one la Liga title, the Copa del Rey and the Supercup.

For Spain he was in the UEFA European Football Championship squad in 2004, but did not play. Despite showing early promise his international career never fully took off, mostly because of injury troubles and the emergence of players like Carles Puyol and Pablo Ibanez.

César fell out of favour when Joaquín Caparrós took over as manager of Deportivo, and because of this, and consistent injury troubles, he moved to Levante UD on the 18th of July, 2006. Things did not improve at Levante where he only appeared three times, getting sent off in one game. On the 31st of January 2007 he cancelled his contract with Levante UD by mutual consent.

César joined Bolton Wanderers in February 2007 on a short-term contract until the end of the season.

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[edit] References

^ Deportivo profileRetrieved: 2 February 2007
^ "Bolton complete deal for Martin", BBC Sport, 2007-02-20. Retrieved on February 21, 2007.

[edit] External links

César Martín career stats at Soccerbase

Bolton Wanderers F.C. - Current Squad
1 Al Habsi \| 2 Hunt \| 4 Nolan \| 5 Méïté \| 6 Speed \| 7 Stelios \| 8 Campo \| 9 Pedersen \| 11 Gardner \| 12 Walker \| 14 Davies \| 15 Thompson \| 16 Andranik \| 17 Fortune \| 21 Diouf \| 22 Jääskeläinen \| 23 Tal \| 24 O'Brien \| 25 Faye \| 26 Ben Haim \| 27 César \| 29 Harsányi \| 31 Sinclair \| 39 Anelka \| 41 Fojut \| 46 Jamieson \| Manager: Allardyce