Mikel Pagola

Mikel Pagola
Personal information
Full name	Mikel Pagola Biurrun
Date of birth	4 March 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Pamplona, Spain
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000–2001	Oberena
2001–2004	Osasuna B
2003–2004	→ Ponferradina (loan)
2004–2005	Burgos
2005	Badalona
2006	Móstoles
2006–2007	Guijuelo
2007–2008	Salamanca
2009	Ponferradina
2009–2010	Alavés
2010–2011	Badajoz
2011–2013	Linense
2013–2014	El Palo
2014–2020	Tudelano
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 February 2020

Mikel Pagola Biurrun (born 4 March 1982) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

Apart from 18 months with Salamanca in Segunda División, he spent the vast majority of his career in Segunda División B, where he made over 450 appearances in service of 11 teams.

Club career

Born in Pamplona, Navarre, Pagola began his senior career with CD Oberena in Tercera División and joined Segunda División B team CA Osasuna B in 2001, also having a season on loan at SD Ponferradina before switching to Burgos CF in 2004; he continued competing in the latter level in the following years, being relegated with CD Móstoles in 2005–06.

Pagola earned his first transfer to a professional club, UD Salamanca of Segunda División, in the summer of 2007. He made the first of his 18 competitive appearances for the Castile and León side on 5 September, in a 1–2 home loss against Elche CF in the second round of the Copa del Rey.^[1] On 19 January 2008, having fallen to third-choice behind Alberto and Biel Ribas, he terminated his contract and returned to division three with Ponferradina.^[2]

After again being featured sparingly at the Estadio El Toralín, Pagola represented in quick succession and always in the third tier Deportivo Alavés, CD Badajoz, Real Balompédica Linense, CD El Palo and CD Tudelano.^[3] With the latter, for whom he signed in 2014, he had good form in the second half of the 2015–16 campaign, beating José Manuel Domínguez Vilches' clean sheet record of 976 minutes without conceding a goal in the competition and eventually Abel Resino's of 1,275 across all Spanish football,^[4] racking up 1,342 before letting in the only goal of a home defeat to Hércules CF in the promotion play-offs.^[5]

References

^ "El Elche sigue bien vivo (1–2)" [Elche still quite alive (1–2)]. La Verdad (in Spanish). 6 September 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
^ "El portero Mikel Pagola deja el Salamanca para fichar por la Ponferradina" [Goalkeeper Mikel Pagola leaves Salamanca to sign for Ponferradina]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). 19 January 2008. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
^ Armendáriz, M.J.; Martínez, Juan Antonio (12 December 2014). ""Después de once años fuera de casa, es un aliciente volver"" ["After eleven years away from home, it's a challenge to come back"]. Noticias de Navarra (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 April 2022.
^ Abizanda, Jorge (15 May 2016). "Mikel Pagola supera a Abel y logra un nuevo récord de imbatibilidad en el fútbol español" [Mikel Pagola surpasses Abel and achieves a new clean sheet record in Spanish football]. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 March 2017.
^ "Mikel Pagola deja récord de imbatibilidad en 1.342 minutos" [Mikel Pagola leaves clean sheet record at 1,342 minutes]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 23 May 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2017.

External links

Mikel Pagola at BDFutbol
Mikel Pagola at Futbolme (in Spanish)
Mikel Pagola at Soccerway

[1] "El Elche sigue bien vivo (1–2)" [Elche still quite alive (1–2)]. La Verdad (in Spanish). 6 September 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2017.

[2] "El portero Mikel Pagola deja el Salamanca para fichar por la Ponferradina" [Goalkeeper Mikel Pagola leaves Salamanca to sign for Ponferradina]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). 19 January 2008. Retrieved 9 March 2017.

[3] Armendáriz, M.J.; Martínez, Juan Antonio (12 December 2014). ""Después de once años fuera de casa, es un aliciente volver"" ["After eleven years away from home, it's a challenge to come back"]. Noticias de Navarra (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 April 2022.

[4] Abizanda, Jorge (15 May 2016). "Mikel Pagola supera a Abel y logra un nuevo récord de imbatibilidad en el fútbol español" [Mikel Pagola surpasses Abel and achieves a new clean sheet record in Spanish football]. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 March 2017.

[5] "Mikel Pagola deja récord de imbatibilidad en 1.342 minutos" [Mikel Pagola leaves clean sheet record at 1,342 minutes]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 23 May 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2017.

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