Sergio Boris (footballer)

Sergio Boris
Personal information
Full name	Sergio Boris González Monteagudo
Date of birth	26 May 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth	Avilés, Spain
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	Avilés
1996–1998	Oviedo
Senior career*
Years	Team
1998–1999	Oviedo B
1999–2002	Oviedo
2002–2006	Real Sociedad
2004–2005	→ Córdoba (loan)
2006–2011	Numancia
2011–2013	Avilés
2013–2017	Marino
2017–2018	Colunga
International career
2000–2001	Spain U21
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 May 2018

Sergio Boris González Monteagudo (born 26 May 1980), commonly known as Boris, is a Spanish footballer who plays mainly as a central defender.

He amassed La Liga totals of 129 matches and one goal over seven seasons, playing for Oviedo, Real Sociedad and Numancia. He added 114 appearances in Segunda División, in a 20-year senior career.

Club career[edit]

Born in Avilés, Asturias, Boris was a youth product of local Real Oviedo's youth ranks. He appeared once for the first team during 1998–99, a 0–3 La Liga away loss against Valencia CF on 29 May 1999,^[2] and became first choice for the subsequent seasons as the team suffered top-flight relegation in 2001.

Boris then joined Real Sociedad, being an historic signing as he was the first Spanish native player from outside the Basque Country to be signed by the club for 35 years.^[3]^[4] After appearing in 25 games in the side's runner-up campaign in the league, he played almost no part in the following years, also serving an unassuming loan stint with Córdoba CF (second division) in 2004–05, where he was inclusively ousted from the squad for more than two months.^[5]

Released, Boris signed with CD Numancia of the same level,^[6] being a key defensive element as the team from Soria returned to the top tier in 2008 after a three-year hiatus.^[7] In June 2011, after a total of 18 league appearances in his last two seasons – just three matches in the latter – the 31-year-old left the Nuevo Estadio Los Pajaritos and returned to his hometown with his very first football club Real Avilés, in the fourth division.^[8]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sergio BORIS González Monteagudo". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 August 2006.
^ Urrutia, Carlos (30 May 1999). "El Valencia presiona" [Valencia press on]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
^ "Boris acabará con 30 años de tradición en la Real" [Boris to end 30-year tradition at Real]. ABC (in Spanish). 6 August 2002. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
^ Calvo, Roberto (13 August 2002). "Boris, primer español no vasco en la Real" [Boris, first non-Basque Spaniard at Real]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 February 2018.
^ "El Córdoba readmite a Boris tras estar casi tres meses apartado" [Córdoba reinstate Boris after nearly three months] (in Spanish). Terra. 15 March 2005. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
^ "La Real Sociedad traspasa al defensa Sergio Boris al Numancia, donde jugará las dos próximas temporadas" [Real Sociedad transfer defender Sergio Boris to Numancia, where he will play the next two seasons] (in Spanish). Terra. 26 July 2006. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
^ "Breve enciclopedia numantina" [Brief numantina encyclopedia]. Desde Soria (in Spanish). 29 May 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^ Bernardo, Marta (20 August 2011). "El ex oviedista Boris ficha por el Avilés" [Former Oviedo man Boris signs for Avilés]. La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 June 2017.