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José Manuel
Personal information
Full name	José Manuel Colmenero Crespo
Date of birth	29 November 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth	Gijón, Spain
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Llano 2000
	Sporting Gijón
Senior career*
Years	Team
1992–1996	Sporting Gijón B
1992–1993	→ Ribadesella (loan)
1994–1999	Sporting Gijón
1996–1997	→ Mallorca (loan)
1999–2003	Deportivo La Coruña
2000	→ Compostela (loan)
2000–2001	→ Numancia (loan)
2002	→ Hannover 96 (loan)
2003	→ Poli Ejido (loan)
2003–2004	Elche
2004–2005	Pontevedra
2005–2006	Marbella
2006–2009	Roquetas
2009–2010	Marino
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

José Manuel Colmenero Crespo (born 29 November 1973), known as José Manuel, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder.

Club career

José Manuel was born in Gijón, Asturias. A product of hometown's Sporting de Gijón youth academy, he was not very successful in his first stint with the club (only 12 first-team appearances over his first three seasons) but, after a loan spell with RCD Mallorca of Segunda División in the 1996–97 campaign,^[1] with promotion, he returned as a full member of the main squad, but Sporting were relegated from La Liga in his first year back.^[2]

Having attracted attention from Deportivo de La Coruña in 1999 and subsequently purchased for €300.000, José Manuel would then begin a series of loan spells in the first and second divisions,^[3]^[4] adding to this a very short experience with Germany's Hannover 96 in the Bundesliga (also on loan, alongside compatriots – in the same situation – Fernando and Jaime).^[5]

Finally released in June 2003, he resumed his career mainly in the Segunda División B,^[6] retiring well into his 30s.^[7] During this timeframe he played mainly for CD Roquetas, in the third tier but also in Tercera División.^[8]^[9]

References

^ Barceló, Alfons (20 July 1996). "Alud de presentaciones" [Presentations galore] (PDF). Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 December 2015.
^ Márquez, M. (16 March 1998). "El derbi, para el Oviedo" [Derby, to Oviedo]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 April 2021.
^ "José Manuel se marcha cedido al Poli Ejido de Segunda" [José Manuel goes on loan to Poli Ejido from Segunda]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 28 January 2003. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
^ "Breve enciclopedia numantina" [Brief numantina encyclopedia]. Desde Soria (in Spanish). 29 May 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^ "Spanische Begegnungen" [Spanish moves] (in German). Hannover 96. 30 July 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
^ Rascado, Tino (5 August 2004). "Presentado José Manuel tras un mes de negociaciones" [José Manuel presented after one month of negotiations]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
^ ""Creo que no voy a jugar más, y es duro de asimilar"" ["I believe I will not play anymore, and it's tough to sink in"]. La Nueva España (in Spanish). 24 February 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
^ Navarro, Javier (15 June 2011). "Se cumplen tres años del ascenso del Roquetas a Segunda División B" [Three-year anniversary of Roquetas' promotion to Segunda División B]. Ideal (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 July 2016.
^ Rodríguez, Javier (26 June 2009). "José Manuel llega al Marino con el objetivo de "ser campeones"" [José Manuel arrives at Marino with the goal of "being champions"]. El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 July 2016.