Pablo Álvarez Núñez

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Pablo Álvarez
Full name	Pablo Álvarez Núñez
Date of birth	May 14, 1980 (1980-05-14) (age 28)
Place of birth	Oviedo, Spain
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Right midfielder
Club information
Current club	Racing Santander
Number	5
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2001–2006 2006– 2008–	Sporting Gijón Deportivo La Coruña →Racing Santander (loan)	157 (24) 9 (0) 18 (1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 June 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 12 June 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Pablo Álvarez Núñez (Pablo Álvarez) (born May 14, 1980 in Oviedo) is a Spanish professional footballer who currently plays as a right midfielder for Racing Santander in La Liga, on loan from Deportivo de La Coruña.

Pablo started his professional career at Sporting de Gijón making his debut in 2001, playing 157 games and scoring 24 goals. There, he earned the nickname Tibu (diminutive of Tiburón - shark in Spanish) for his goal celebrations in which he pretended to have a shark's fin in his head. Pablo also participated in the resurrection of the Selección Gallega (unofficial Galicia autonomous football team) in December 2005, playing their first game after 75 years, against Uruguay. He signed for Deportivo La Coruña on a Bosman free transfer in August 2006.

On February 3, 2007, Álvarez played his first league match for Depor, against RCD Mallorca.^[1]Suffered a serious leg injury in the first season, and was eventually loaned to Santander in January 2008, until the end of 2007-08.