Player profile
Manuel Pablo Garcia Diaz
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Deportivo de La Coruna
1998 - present
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UD Las Palmas
1996 - 1998
Manuel Pablo Garcia Diaz is a Spanish footballer currently featuring for the Spanish club Deportivo la Coruna. He plays as a right back and is also the captain of the side.
Manuel Pablo commenced his career at Spanish side La Palmas in 1996 and played for two seasons. When he was just 22 years of age, he was signed by his hometown Deportivo la Coruna in the summer of 1998.
Manuel Pablo has since been with the Galician giants and is now the club captain. He has made a close to 250 league appearances. He made his La Liga debut for Depo in November 1998 against Deportivo Alaves at home and soon settled into the first team at Depor.
However he suffered a horrific tibia injury against Celta de Vigo in late September 2001 that kept him out of football for more than a season but returned to action the next season and has been first choice a right back ever since.
Manuel Pablo made 13 international appearances for Spain between 2000 and 2001.
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