Andrés Palop

Andrés Palop
Personal information
Palop playing for Sevilla in 2008
Full name	Andrés Palop Cervera
Date of birth	(1973-10-22) 22 October 1973
Place of birth	L'Alcúdia, Spain
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team	Alcoyano (coach)
Youth career
	Valencia
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1993–1997	Valencia B	68	(0)
1997–2005	Valencia	43	(0)
1997–1999	→ Villarreal (loan)	74	(0)
2005–2013	Sevilla	217	(0)
2013–2014	Bayer Leverkusen	0	(0)
Total		402	(0)
Teams managed
2015–	Alcoyano
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Palop and the second or maternal family name is Cervera.

Andrés Palop Cervera (born 22 October 1973) is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

After having languished on the bench of hometown side Valencia for most of his stay, he became a premiere player with Sevilla well into his 30's, helping it consolidate in both the domestic and European fronts. Over the course of 15 seasons he appeared in 295 games in La Liga, where he also represented Villarreal in 1998–99.

Palop was selected by Spain for Euro 2008, but never gained an international cap.

Club career

Valencia

Born in L'Alcúdia, Valencian Community, Palop was a youth product of local giants Valencia CF, and his first professional seasons were spent at neighbours Villarreal CF, in a two-year loan spell. He was the undisputed starter in both the side's La Liga promotion in 1998 – a first ever – and relegation the following season, being subsequently recalled by the Che.

In his six-year stint with Valencia's main squad, however, Palop was mostly backup to veteran Santiago Cañizares, his most games consisting of 15 in his first year. As the club were crowned league champions in 2002 and 2004, he could only appear seven times combined (all in the former campaign), and eventually grew unsettled.

Palop during a match with Sevilla.

Sevilla

Palop joined Sevilla FC in the 2005 summer, quickly becoming one of the Andalusians' cornerstones as they added five titles in only one year. On 15 March 2007 he made headlines when he scored an injury time-equalising goal in the UEFA Cup round-of-16 tie against FC Shakhtar Donetsk, forcing extra time as a result – Sevilla, which had drawn 2–2 at home in the first leg, went on to win 3–2, and eventually won the competition for the second consecutive time;^[1]^[2] in the final against fellow league side RCD Espanyol he stopped three of four penalty kicks in the shootout, being named Man of the match.^[3]

In the following seasons veteran Palop continued to be an undisputed starter for Sevilla, never appearing in less than 31 league matches. In 2009–10 he helped the team to the fourth place in the league, with the subsequent qualification to the UEFA Champions League, and the campaign's Copa del Rey.

Bayer Leverkusen

In early June 2013, Palop signed a one-year contract with German side Bayer 04 Leverkusen, moving abroad for the first time at the age of nearly 40.^[4] On 18 February 2015, already retired, he was named manager at CD Alcoyano.^[5]^[6]

International career

Palop was first called up for Spain in August 2007, for a friendly with Greece, after a last-minute injury to Iker Casillas.^[7] However, he did not leave the bench in the match.

Uncapped, Palop lost a narrow competition with Pepe Reina of Liverpool for second-choice at UEFA Euro 2008, but beat FC Barcelona's Víctor Valdés for the third spot on the squad. During the ceremony following Spain's victory in the tournament, he wore Luis Arconada's original Euro 1984 final shirt.^[8] He received the gold medal from Michel Platini (who had won the 1984 continental competition, scoring the final opener from an Arconada blunder), later president of UEFA.

Club statistics

As of 1 June 2013^[9]^[10]

Club	Season	League			National Cup^{[lower-alpha 1]}		Continental		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Valencia	1997–98	La Liga	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0
	1999–00	La Liga	15	0	0	0	6^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0	-	-	21	0
	2000–01	La Liga	1	0	2	0	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0	-	-	4	0
	2001–02	La Liga	7	0	0	0	3^{[lower-alpha 3]}	0	-	-	10	0
	2002–03	La Liga	9	0	2	0	3^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0	-	-	14	0
	2003–04	La Liga	0	0	6	0	6^{[lower-alpha 3]}	0	-	-	12	0
	2004–05	La Liga	11	0	1	0	2^{[lower-alpha 3]}	0	-	-	14	0
	Total		43	0	11	0	21	0	-	-	75	0
Villarreal	1997–98	Segunda División	39	0	0	0	-	-	2^{[lower-alpha 4]}	0	41	0
	1998–99	La Liga	35	0	5	0	-	-	2^{[lower-alpha 5]}	0	42	0
	Total		74	0	5	0	-	-	4	0	83	0
Sevilla	2005–06	La Liga	36	0	0	0	7^{[lower-alpha 3]}	0	-	-	43	0
	2006–07	La Liga	34	0	4	0	12^{[lower-alpha 3]}	1	1^{[lower-alpha 6]}	0	51	1
	2007–08	La Liga	31	0	0	0	9^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0	3^{[lower-alpha 6]}^{[lower-alpha 7]}	0	43	0
	2008–09	La Liga	35	0	6	0	6^{[lower-alpha 3]}	0	-	-	47	0
	2009–10	La Liga	33	0	6	0	5^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0	-	-	44	0
	2010–11	La Liga	19	0	3	0	8^{[lower-alpha 2]}^{[lower-alpha 3]}	0	2^{[lower-alpha 7]}	0	32	0
	2011–12	La Liga	13	0	1	0	2^{[lower-alpha 3]}	0	-	-	16	0
	2012–13	La Liga	16	0	3	0	-	-	-	-	19	0
	Total		217	0	23	0	49	1	6	0	295	1
Bayer Leverkusen	2013–14	Bundesliga	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0
Bayer Leverkusen	Total		0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0
Career total			334	0	39	0	70	1	10	0	453	1

↑ Includes Copa del Rey and DFB-Pokal matches.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Appearances in UEFA Champions League
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Appearances in UEFA Europa League
↑ Appearances in Promotion play-offs
↑ Appearances in Relegation play-offs
1 2 Appearances in UEFA Super Cup
1 2 Appearances in Supercopa de España

Honours

Club

Valencia

Sevilla

UEFA Cup: 2005–06, 2006–07
UEFA Super Cup: 2006; Runner-up 2007
Copa del Rey: 2006–07, 2009–10
Supercopa de España: 2007; Runner-up 2010

International

UEFA European Championship: 2008

References

↑ Sevilla saved by last gasp Palop; UEFA.com, 15 March 2007
↑ Shakhtar Donetsk 2–3 FC Sevilla; ESPN Soccernet, 15 March 2007
↑ Palop ensures cup joy for Sevilla; UEFA.com, 16 May 2007
↑ Palop adds experience to Leverkusen; UEFA.com, 2 June 2013
↑ Carlos Sempere entrenará al Alcoyano y Andrés Palop será su ayudante (Carlos Sempere will manage Alcoyano and Andrés Palop will be his assistant); Mundo Deportivo, 18 February 2015 (Spanish)
↑ Palop afrontará en el Alcoyano su primera experiencia como entrenador (Palop will his face his first experience as a manager at Alcoyano); Marca, 18 February 2015 (Spanish)
↑ Casillas no viajará a Grecia y Luis llama a Palop (Casillas will not travel to Greece and Luis calls Palop); Marca, 20 August 2007 (Spanish)
↑ Arconada alucinó con el gesto de Palop (Arconada went crazy with Palop's gesture); Mundo Deportivo, 2 July 2008 (Spanish)
↑ "Palop: Andrés Palop Cervera". BDFutbol. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
↑ "Palop". Soccerway. Retrieved 18 December 2013.

External links

Andrés Palop profile at BDFutbol
Stats at Footballdatabase

Spain squad – UEFA Euro 2008 Winners (2nd Title)

1 Casillas (c) 2 Albiol 3 Navarro 4 Marchena 5 Puyol 6 Iniesta 7 Villa 8 Xavi 9 F. Torres 10 Fàbregas 11 Capdevila 12 Cazorla 13 Palop 14 Alonso 15 Ramos 16 García 17 Güiza 18 Arbeloa 19 Senna 20 Juanito 21 Silva 22 De la Red 23 Reina Coach: Aragonés

CD Alcoyano – current squad

GK M. Martínez GK Jero GK Palopa DF Devesa DF Á. Alonso DF Navarro DF Jorge DF Ó. Sánchez DF Fuentes DF Ó. López DF Mongil DF Mode MF Miranda MF Salvador MF J. de Dios MF Rubio MF Mustafá MF Borja MF Á. López MF Alfaro MF Abraham FW Rubio FW R. Ramos FW Qasmi Coach: Palop

CD Alcoyano – managers

Moyá (1928–30)
Pérez Soler (1930–36)
Mauri (1939–40)
Balaguer (1940–48)
Castro (1948–49)
Espadá (1949–51)
Balaguer (1952–54)
Paradells (1954–55)
Quisco (1955)
Guasp (1955–57)
Torres (1957–58)
Quique Martín (1958–59)
Blanco (1959)
Quisco (1959–60)
Guasp (1960–61)
Paradells (1961)
Busté (1961–62)
Beltrán (1962–63)
Arnal (1963–64)
Pintos (1964)
Guasp (1964–65)
Sará (1965)
Simón (1965–66)
Guasp (1966–67)
León Lasa (1967–68)
Bermúdez (1968–69)
Santiago (1969–70)
Simón and Ara (1970–71)
Vázquez (1971–73)
Miguel (1973)
Ruiz Sosa (1973–74)
Mut (1974–75)
Beltrán (1975)
Palomar (1975)
Cervera (1975)
González (1975–76)
Poli (1976)
Parreño (1981–82)
Parreño (1983–84)
Hernández (1984–85)
Parreño (1985–86)
Ramos (1992–94)
García (1994–95)
Luiche (1995–96)
Aroca (1996)
Aparicio (2003)
Aroca (2004–05)
Sánchez (2005–06)
Herrero (2006)
Martínez (2006–07)
Soler (2007)
Bordalás (2007–09)
Paco (2009–11)
Porras (2011–12)
Sampedro (2012)
Garitano (2012–13)
Porras (2013–14)
Cano (2014–15)
Palop (2015–)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Javi Navarro	Sevilla captain 2008–2013	Succeeded by Ivan Rakitić

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