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Miki Garro
Personal information
Full name Miquel Garro Gomila
Date of birth (1975-09-20) 20 September 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth Palma, Spain
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–2000 Mallorca B 82 (0)
1998–1999 → Binéfar (loan) 37 (0)
2000–2004 Mallorca 22 (0)
2004–2005 Ciudad de Murcia 16 (0)
Total 157 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miquel Garro Gomila (born 20 September 1975) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

He played 38 total games for Mallorca, including in La Liga and the UEFA Champions League, and won the Copa del Rey in 2003. He retired aged 29 after one season at Ciudad de Murcia in the Segunda División and later worked as a goalkeeping coach for clubs including Mallorca.

Playing career

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Born in Palma de Mallorca, Garro began his career at hometown club RCD Mallorca. Having played for the reserve team in the Segunda División B, where he was also loaned to Binéfar,[1] he made his first-team debut on 1 July 2000 in the first round of the UEFA Intertoto Cup, a 1–0 home win over Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț of Romania; a week later the team lost 3–1 in the second leg and were eliminated. New manager Luis Aragonés was not interested in the tournament, so the reserves coached by Juan Ramón López Caro contested the tie.[2]

Garro made his La Liga debut on 22 April 2001 when regular goalkeeper Leo Franco suffered a muscular injury after 20 minutes away to Villarreal, a 2–2 draw.[3] At the start of the following season, he faced competition from another Argentinian, Carlos Roa.[4] On 30 October, he made his UEFA Champions League debut as the team won 1–0 at home to Panathinaikos in the final group game, therefore qualifying for the UEFA Cup.[5]

In 2002–03, Mallorca won the Copa del Rey. Garro played the 1–0 win at Gramenet in the round of 64 and both legs of the 6–3 win over Real Valladolid in the last 16,[6] but Franco played in the final win over Recreativo de Huelva in Elche.[7] Weeks earlier, Garro played the fixture against Barcelona at the Camp Nou for the third consecutive season, due to the death of Franco's mother;[8] his team won 2–1.[9]

Garro played five games for Mallorca in the 2003–04 UEFA Cup, including both legs of a 3–1 aggregate win over Spartak Moscow in the last 32 in which his team won 3–0 in the first game in the Russian capital.[10][11] In the second leg of the next round, he played in a much-changed squad that had already lost 4–1 away to Newcastle United, and conceded three more goals to be eliminated.[12]

Subsequently, Mallorca planned to have Miguel Ángel Moyá and Alberto Cifuentes as goalkeepers, while selling Franco and releasing Garro; the latter was not pleased that the club then signed a higher-earning third goalkeeper in Sander Westerveld.[13] On 20 July 2004, Garro signed for newly promoted Segunda División club Ciudad de Murcia on a one-year deal.[1] He turned down an extension, and approaches from Almería and Hércules did not materialise; in September 2005, the 29-year-old retired.[13]

Coaching career

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Garro worked as a goalkeeping coach at Mallorca in the 2010s.[14][15][16] He had the same job at Beijing Renhe under compatriot Luis García, winning promotion to the Chinese Super League.[17] In 2021, he was assigned the same post in Spain's under-17 and under-18 national teams.[18]

Personal life

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Garro's father of the same name, who died in 2012, was the president of RCD Mallorca's federation of fan clubs.[19]

References

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  1. ^ a b "El ex mallorquinista Miki, nuevo fichaje del Ciudad" [Ex-Mallorca player Miki, new Ciudad signing]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 20 July 2004. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  2. ^ Jaume, Tommy M. (24 August 2023). "Cuando Rubiales jugó con el Mallorca en Europa" [When Rubiales played for Mallorca in Europe]. Mallorca Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  3. ^ Aquimbau, J. M. (23 April 2001). "Puntazo del Mallorca" [Big point for Mallorca]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  4. ^ Alzamora, Miquel (25 September 2001). "La hora de Carlos Roa" [Carlos Roa's time]. Última Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  5. ^ Verger, Pep (23 October 2001). "Triomf amb el consol de la UEFA" [Triumph with the consolation of the UEFA Cup]. DBalears (in Catalan). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  6. ^ "El Valladolid se despidió de la Copa" [Valladolid say goodbye to the Cup]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Europa Press. 15 January 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  7. ^ Fernández, Manuel (28 June 2003). "Copa del Rey: 20 años del título más importante del Real Mallorca" [Copa del Rey: 20 years of Real Mallorca's most important title]. Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  8. ^ Mora, J. (2 March 2004). "Miki Garro, un porter per al Camp Nou" [Miki Garro, a goalkeeper for the Camp Nou]. DBalears (in Catalan). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  9. ^ Santos, M. Á (19 May 2003). "¡Qué venganza!" [What revenge!]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  10. ^ "El Mallorca golea en Moscú" [Mallorca rout in Moscow] (in Spanish). UEFA. 26 February 2004. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  11. ^ "Spartak victory in vain". UEFA. 3 March 2004. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  12. ^ Spellman, Damian (26 March 2004). "Shearer and Bellamy ensure PSV return for Robson". The Independent. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  13. ^ a b Jiménez, Jordi (8 September 2005). "Miki ha decidido colgar los guantes con sólo 29 años" [Miki has decided to hang up his gloves at only 29]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  14. ^ Muñoz, Paco (6 October 2011). "Nadal decidirá en unos días si sigue" [Nadal will decide in a few days if he will continue]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  15. ^ "Javier Olaizola y Pep Alomar, nuevos técnicos del Mallorca" [Javier Olaizola and Pep Alomar, new coaches at Mallorca]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 20 May 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  16. ^ "Quejas en el Mallorca por las tres expulsiones" [Complaints at Mallorca for the three sendings-off]. El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). 11 April 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  17. ^ "El mallorquín Miki Garro triunfa en China" [Mallorcan Miki Garro triumphs in China]. Última Hora (in Spanish). 8 October 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  18. ^ Muñoz, Paco (29 September 2021). "La selección ficha a Miki Garro" [National team sign Miki Garro] (in Spanish). Onda Cero. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  19. ^ "Fallece Miguel Garro, fundador de la Federación de Peñas del Mallorca" [Miguel Garro, founder of the Federation of Fan Clubs of Mallorca, dies]. Última Hora (in Spanish). 20 December 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
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