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Vicente Engonga Maté (born 20 October 1965) is a Spanish retired footballer who played mainly as a central midfielder but occasionally as a sweeper. He played for six different professional clubs in his career, having his longest and most successful spell at Mallorca in spite of arriving at the club at the age of 32. In total, he appeared in 327 La Liga games and scored eight goals over the course of 11 seasons. Engonga represented Spain at the Euro 2000, being an international for two years. ==Club career== Born in Barcelona, Catalonia of Equatorial Guinean descent,〔(Footballers step-out of 'Eel's' shadow ); BBC Sport, 8 May 2007〕 Engonga spent his childhood in the Cantabria region, where his father was a footballer.〔(Qué fue de… Engonga (What happened to… Engonga) ); 20 Minutos, 11 January 2009 〕 He started his senior career with local lower league club Gimnástica de Torrelavega, and then played for CF Sporting Mahonés. In 1991, Engonga moved to Real Valladolid in La Liga. In his first year the club were relegated to Segunda División and he left to Celta de Vigo, with whom he was a finalist in the 1994 Copa del Rey.〔(Copa del Rey (1994 Spanish Cup) ); at Geocities〕 In the 1994 summer Engonga was bought by league powerhouse Valencia CF, where he played three seasons: after a shaky start he appeared in 35 games in 1996–97, although the ''Che'' finished tenth. Subsequently he moved to RCD Mallorca under Héctor Cúper's supervision, alongside other five former teammates – including Iván Campo. At the Balearic Islands side Engonga displayed his best football, helping the team win the 1998 Spanish Supercup after beating FC Barcelona 3–1 on aggregate. also that year, Mallorca reached the final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, losing 1–2 to S.S. Lazio. During the 2000–01 campaign, Engonga scored twice in 31 league matches as his team earnt a third-place finish, qualifying to the UEFA Champions League for the first time. In their first match in the competition, he scored the only goal of the game to defeat Arsenal at Son Moix, an 11th-minute penalty after Ashley Cole had been sent off for fouling Albert Luque. In 2002 Engonga's contract expired, and he joined second level's Real Oviedo where he played for six months before moving abroad in late January 2003, signing a six-month loan deal with English club Coventry City, in the Football League Division One.〔(Coventry snap up Engonga ); BBC Sport, 13 February 2003〕 At the end of the season he retired, at almost 38, going on to work with Mallorca in several coaching capacities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vicente Engonga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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