Miguel Mellado

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Miguel Mellado
Personal information
Full name Miguel Alberto Mellado
Date of birth (1993-03-18) 18 March 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Río Negro, Argentina
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9+12 in)[1]
Position(s) Defensive midfielder[2]
Team information
Current team
OFI
Number 29
Youth career
Chacarita Juniors
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2020 Chacarita Juniors 162 (3)
2013Deportivo Merlo (loan) 17 (0)
2018–2020OFI (loan) 42 (1)
2020– OFI 94 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:50, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Miguel Alberto Mellado (born 18 March 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Greek Super League club OFI.[1]

Career

Chacarita Juniors

Mellado started his career with

Tristán Suárez.[1] On 27 October, he scored his first professional goal at home to Brown.[1] In total, Mellado played twenty-six times during 2012–13.[1] From January 2014, across the next six seasons, Mellado scored two goals in one hundred and twenty appearances as the club rose from the third tier to the Argentine Primera División.[1]

Deportivo Merlo loan

Mellado was loaned out for the first part of 2013–14 to fellow Primera B Metropolitana club Deportivo Merlo, he went onto play seventeen times for Merlo before returning to Chacarita.[4][5]

OFI loan

In July 2018, Mellado joined newly-promoted Super League Greece side OFI on loan for one year.[6] On 14 June 2019, OFI announced that Mellado's loan had been extended by an additional year.[7] The Greek club also held a buy-out clause for the summer of 2020, for a reported sum of around €200,000.[7] In two years with OFI, Mellado made forty-eight appearances and scored one goal; versus Aris on 24 August 2019, in a season that ended with UEFA Europa League qualification - twelve months after the club narrowly avoided relegation via the play-offs.[1]

OFI

In August 2020, OFI completed the permanent signing of Mellado.[1] He made his continental competition debut on 17 September, featuring for the full duration of the club's loss to Apollon Limassol in the Europa League second qualifying round.[1] He scored his first goal of 2020–21 on 18 October versus Panathinaikos.[1]

Career statistics

As of 1 January 2021.[1]
Club statistics
Club Season League National Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Chacarita Juniors 2012–13 Primera B Metropolitana 25 1 1 0 26 1
2013–14 12 1 1 0 13 1
2014 17 0 0 0 17 0
2015
Primera B Nacional
37 1 4 0 41 1
2016 16 0 0 0 16 0
2016–17 38 0 0 0 38 0
2017–18 Primera División 17 0 0 0 17 0
2018–19 Primera B Nacional 0 0 0 0 0 0
2019–20
0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 162 3 6 0 168 3
Deportivo Merlo (loan) 2013–14 Primera B Metropolitana 17 0 1 0 18 0
OFI (loan) 2018–19 Super League Greece 20 0 2 0 2[a] 0 24 0
2019–20 22 1 2 0 24 1
OFI 2020–21 Super League Greece 28 1 1 0 1[b] 0 30 1
Career total 249 5 12 0 1 0 2 0 264 5
  1. ^ Appearances in Super League Greece play-offs
  2. ^ Appearance in UEFA Europa League

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Miguel Mellado profile". Soccerway. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Miguel Mellado". World Football. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Miguel Mellado profile". Chacarita Juniors. 20 January 2018. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Mellado a Deportivo Merlo". Mundo Ascenso. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Miguel Mellado profile". BDFA. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Παίκτης του ΟΦΗ μας και ο 25χρονος αμυντικός μέσος Miguel Mellado". OFI Crete F.C. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  7. ^ a b "ΟΦΗ: Ανανέωσε το δανεισμό του Μεγιάδο". gazzetta. 14 June 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2019.

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