Carlos Merino

Carlos Merino
Personal information
Full name	Carlos Gustavo Merino González
Date of birth	15 March 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth	Bilbao, Spain
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Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Portugalete
Youth career
1996–1997	University of Texas
1997–1999	Nottingham Forest
Senior career*
Years	Team
1999–2000	Nottingham Forest
2000–2003	Athletic Bilbao
2001–2002	→ Burgos (loan)
2004–2005	Numancia
2005–2007	Gimnàstic
2007–2008	Las Palmas
2008–2010	Albacete
2011–2013	Wacker Innsbruck
2013–2014	Panthrakikos
2014–	Portugalete
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 February 2015

Carlos Gustavo Merino González (born 15 March 1980) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Club Portugalete as a midfielder.

Club career

Born in Bilbao, Biscay, Merino started playing professionally with Nottingham Forest in the Football League Championship, and signed in March 2000 for hometown's Athletic Bilbao – the deal being effective as of the 2000–01 season^[1]– where he struggled with first-team opportunities, also being loaned to lowly Burgos CF.

After being released in January 2004, Merino moved to CD Numancia: in 2004–05's La Liga he regularly appeared and scored, although the Soria side was relegated one year after promoting. He went on to have Segunda División stints with Gimnàstic de Tarragona, UD Las Palmas and Albacete Balompié.

In the 2011 January transfer window, aged nearly 31, Merino moved abroad again, signing for Fußballclub Wacker Innsbruck in Austria and joining countryman Iñaki Bea. On 15 September 2013 he moved teams and countries again, joining Panthrakikos F.C. in the Superleague Greece^[2] and being released on 7 January of the following year.^[3]

In July 2014 Merino returned to both his homeland and native region, signing with Club Portugalete in Tercera División.^[4]