Carles Coto

Carles Coto
Personal information
Full name Carles Coto Pagès
Date of birth (1988-02-11) 11 February 1988 (age 38)
Place of birth Figueres, Spain
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position Winger
Youth career
Figueres
2001–2007 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2008 Mouscron 21 (2)
2008–2009 Sevilla B 20 (0)
2009–2010 Benidorm 31 (0)
2010–2011 Anorthosis 18 (1)
2011–2013 Dinamo Tbilisi 44 (6)
2013 Dinamo Minsk 6 (1)
2014 Bunyodkor 5 (0)
2014–2015 San Marino 22 (2)
2015–2016 Ethnikos Achna 35 (6)
2016 Doxa 8 (1)
2017 Ermis 16 (0)
2017–2018 Rayo Majadahonda 32 (6)
2018–2019 Volos 24 (0)
2019–2021 Figueres 24 (0)
2021–2023 Santa Coloma 46 (8)
2023–2024 Roda 32 (0)
Total 384 (33)
International career
2004 Spain U16 4 (1)
2007 Spain U19 6 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Carles Coto Pagès (born 11 February 1988) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right winger.

Club career

Born in Figueres, Girona, Catalonia, Coto arrived in Barcelona's youth system in 2001 at the age of 13, from local Figueres; while at the Camp Nou, he featured in Nike's 2005 "Recuerda mi nombre" ("Remember my name") advertisement alongside fellow La Masia prospect Lionel Messi. He then moved to Mouscron in Belgium, being released after one season.

Coto returned to his country in the summer of 2008, where he represented Sevilla Atlético in the Segunda División and Benidorm in the Segunda División B, suffering relegation with the former. In early July 2010, even though he still had one year of contract with the latter club, he changed teams and countries again, signing for Anorthosis Famagusta in Cyprus, managed by his former Barcelona youth coach Guillermo Ángel Hoyos.

On 28 June 2011, Coto joined Dinamo Tbilisi in Georgia, sharing teams with several compatriots. In February 2014, he signed for Uzbekistan Super League side Bunyodkor, but left in July and quickly agreed to a one-year deal at San Marino Calcio in the Lega Pro.

On 29 August 2017, the 29-year-old Coto returned to Spain with Rayo Majadahonda after brief stints with Cypriot clubs Ethnikos Achna, Doxa Katokopias and Ermis Aradippou.

International career

Coto was part of the Spanish squad that won the 2007 UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Austria. He played 64 minutes of the 1–0 victory against Greece in the final.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Mouscron 2007–08 Belgian First Division 21210——222
Sevilla B 2008–09 Segunda División 200———200
Benidorm 2009–10 Segunda División B 31000——310
Anorthosis 2010–11 Cypriot First Division 1810040—221
Dinamo Tbilisi 2011–12 Umaglesi Liga 2751051—336
2012–13 Umaglesi Liga 17190——261
Total 44610051—597
Dinamo Minsk 2013 Belarusian Premier League 610040—101
Bunyodkor 2014 Uzbekistan Super League 50204010120
San Marino 2014–15 Lega Pro 22200——222
Ethnikos Achna 2015–16 Cypriot First Division 35620——376
Ermis 2016–17 Cypriot First Division 16000——160
Rayo Majadahonda 2017–18 Segunda División B 32600——326
Volos 2018–19 Football League 24031——271
Figueres 2019–20 Tercera División 10———10
2020–21 Tercera División 230———230
Total 240———240
Santa Coloma 2021–22 Primera Divisió 25220——272
2022–23 Primera Divisió 21630——246
Total 46850——518
Roda 2023–24 Tercera Federación 320———320
Career total 376322311711041734
  1. 1 2 3 Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  2. ↑ Appearances in AFC Champions League
  3. ↑ Appearance in Uzbekistan Super Cup

Honours

Dinamo Tbilisi

Bunyodkor

Volos

Spain U19

References

  1. 1 2 3 Carles Coto at WorldFootball.net
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brugués, Marc (8 September 2024). "Recordo el teu nom: Carles Coto" [I remember your name: Carles Coto]. Diari de Girona (in Catalan). Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  3. 1 2 Labarga, Nacho (26 December 2014). "Coto, el exsocio de Busquets que emerge en San Marino" [Coto, Busquets' former partner emerging in San Marino]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  4. ↑ Fleming, Connor (1 February 2018). "Rare 2005 Nike commercial featuring Messi shows how life's a cruel mistress" (in Spanish). The 18. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Matallanas, Carlos (18 September 2012). "Los futbolistas modestos emigran para ganarse el 'jornal'" [Modest footballers move abroad to make a 'penny']. El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Carmona, Fernando (28 April 2009). "Las causas del descalabro del filial sevillista" [The reasons behind the collapse of Sevilla's reserves]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  7. ↑ Fuster, Vicente (2 July 2010). "Carles Coto abandona el Benidorm y ficha por el Anorthosis chipriota" [Carles Coto leaves Benidorm and signs for Anorthosis from Cyprus]. Diario Información (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  8. ↑ "El Dinamo Tbilisi georgiano ficha a 'Xisco' Muñoz, Coto y Yagüe" [Georgia's Dinamo Tbilisi sign 'Xisco' Muñoz, Coto and Yagüe] (in Spanish). Terra. 28 June 2011. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  9. ↑ "El Dinamo de Tiflis habla español" [Dinamo Tbilisi speak Spanish] (in Spanish). RTVE. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  10. ↑ Знакомьтесь, новый футболист "Бунёдкора": Карлес Кото [Meet the new Bunyodkor footballer: Carles Coto] (in Russian). Championat. 17 February 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  11. ↑ Umarov, Anvar (20 July 2014). "Bunyodkor and Koto [sic] part their ways". UZ Daily. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  12. 1 2 "Calciomercato, a San Marino Carles Coto, campione d'Europa Under 17 [sic]" [Transfer market, to San Marino Carles Coto, Under 19 European champion]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 1 August 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  13. ↑ "Fichajes: Portuga (Cerceda), Carles Coto (Rayo Majadahonda) y Oscar Mena (Luján)" [Transfers: Portuga (Cerceda), Carles Coto (Rayo Majadahonda) and Oscar Mena (Luján)] (in Spanish). Marca Goles. 29 August 2017. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  14. ↑ "España conserva su trono europeo" [Spain renew their European supremacy]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 27 July 2007. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  15. ↑ Carles Coto at BDFutbol
  16. ↑ Carles Coto at Soccerway
  17. ↑ "España sub'19, la mejor de Europa" [Spain under'19, best in Europe]. Sport (in Spanish). 28 July 2007. Retrieved 3 October 2026.