Chota (footballer)

Chota
Personal information
Full name	Mustafá Abdesalam Mohand
Date of birth	5 April 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth	Melilla, Spain
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Peña Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years	Team
1994–1995	SC Constitución
1995–1996	Real de Melilla
1996–1997	Melilla B
1997	Gimnástico Melilla
1997–1998	Don Benito
1998–1999	Alicante
1999–2000	Dénia
2000	Gandía
2000–2002	Levante B
2002–2003	Levante
2003–2004	Numancia
2004	Hércules
2004–2015	Melilla
2015–2016	River Melilla
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mustafá Abdesalam Mohand (born 5 April 1975), known as Chota, is a Spanish former footballer who played as a striker.

He played mostly for Melilla in a 22-year senior career, appearing in 367 competitive games for the club and scoring 87 goals.

Club career

Born in Melilla, Chota spent his first years as a senior in amateur football. He played part of the 2001–02 season and the entire 2002–03 campaign with Levante UD in the Segunda División, scoring his first goal in the competition on 13 January 2002 in a 1–1 home draw against Albacete Balompié.^[1] He also had a brief spell in that tier with CD Numancia.^[2]

Most of Chota's career, however, was spent with UD Melilla in the Segunda División B (which he first joined in 1996 in order to represent its reserves), going on to surpass the 300-mark in official matches and score more than 75 goals.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] He retired at the end of 2014–15 at the age of 40, amidst accusations of mistreatment.^[7]

References

^ Chota evitó un nuevo desastre granota (Chota prevented new granota disaster); Diario AS, 13 January 2002 (in Spanish)
^ Breve enciclopedia numantina (Brief numantina encyclopedia); Desde Soria, 29 May 2013 (in Spanish)
^ Dos goles de Chota le dan al Melilla un triunfo más que merecido en El Ejido (Two Chota goals give Melilla totally deserved win in El Ejido); Diario Sur, 5 December 2011 (in Spanish)
^ Histórica victoria copera del Melilla (Historic cup win for Melilla); El Faro de Ceuta, 18 October 2012 (in Spanish)
^ Un festín histórico (1–6) (Historic feast (1–6)); UD Melilla, 22 September 2013 (in Spanish)
^ Chota se convierte en el máximo goleador de la historia del club azulino (Chota becomes top scorer in the azulino club's history) Archived 20 December 2013 at archive.today; El Diario Digital de Melilla, 26 September 2013 (in Spanish)
^ Chota: “Me parece vergonzoso el trato del club hacia mi persona” (Chota: "The club's treatment of my person is in my view shameful"); Melilla Hoy, 2015 (in Spanish)

External links

Chota at BDFutbol
Chota at Soccerway

[1] Chota evitó un nuevo desastre granota (Chota prevented new granota disaster); Diario AS, 13 January 2002 (in Spanish)

[2] Breve enciclopedia numantina (Brief numantina encyclopedia); Desde Soria, 29 May 2013 (in Spanish)

[3] Dos goles de Chota le dan al Melilla un triunfo más que merecido en El Ejido (Two Chota goals give Melilla totally deserved win in El Ejido); Diario Sur, 5 December 2011 (in Spanish)

[4] Histórica victoria copera del Melilla (Historic cup win for Melilla); El Faro de Ceuta, 18 October 2012 (in Spanish)

[5] Un festín histórico (1–6) (Historic feast (1–6)); UD Melilla, 22 September 2013 (in Spanish)

[6] Chota se convierte en el máximo goleador de la historia del club azulino (Chota becomes top scorer in the azulino club's history) Archived 20 December 2013 at archive.today; El Diario Digital de Melilla, 26 September 2013 (in Spanish)

[7] Chota: “Me parece vergonzoso el trato del club hacia mi persona” (Chota: "The club's treatment of my person is in my view shameful"); Melilla Hoy, 2015 (in Spanish)

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