Manuel Jiménez Abalo

Manuel Jiménez

Personal information
Full name	Manuel Enrique Jiménez Abalo
Date of birth	(1956-10-27) 27 October 1956
Place of birth	Vilagarcía de Arousa, Spain
Height
Position(s)	Centre back
Youth career
	Carril
	Arosa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
?–1979	Arosa
1979–1991	Sporting Gijón	420	(8)
1991–1992	Burgos	38	(0)
International career
1980–1981	Spain B	6	(0)
1981	Spain	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

Manuel Enrique Jiménez Abalo (born 27 October 1956 in Vilagarcía de Arousa, Pontevedra, Galicia) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a central defender.

Football career

During his professional career, Jiménez Abalo played for Sporting de Gijón and Real Burgos CF. With the Asturias club he spent 12 of his 13 professional seasons, appearing in nearly 500 official matches – in La Liga he never played in less than 30 games, and helped the club to the fourth place in the 1986–87 campaign after contributing with 43 matches (3,870 minutes).

With Burgos, in his final season, Jiménez played in all the games and minutes, and the modest Castile and León retained its top level status, with the eighth-best defensive record in the league. He retired at nearly 36, and also earned one cap for Spain on 18 November 1981, a 3–2 friendly win in Poland, being selected to the 1982 FIFA World Cup squad.

External links

• Manuel Jiménez profile at BDFutbol
• National team data (Spanish)
• Jiménez.html Manuel Jiménez Abalo at National-Football-Teams.com