Roque Mesa

Roque Mesa
Personal information
Full name Roque Mesa Quevedo
Date of birth (1989-06-07) 7 June 1989
Place of birth Telde, Spain
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Las Palmas
Number 15
Youth career
Valdecasas
Telde
Yoñé
2005–2007 Levante
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2009 Levante B 70 (4)
2009–2010 Huracán
2010 Tenerife B 16 (0)
2010–2014 Las Palmas B 68 (14)
2011– Las Palmas 91 (5)
2012–2013Atlético Baleares (loan) 33 (3)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 May 2016.


This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Mesa and the second or maternal family name is Quevedo.

Roque Mesa Quevedo (born 7 June 1989) is a Spanish footballer who plays for UD Las Palmas as a midfielder.

Club career

Born in Telde, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands,[1] Mesa was a product of Levante UD's youth system, and made his senior debut with the reserves in the 2007–08 season, in Tercera División. He left the club in the middle of 2009, and signed for AD Huracán.[2]

On 26 January 2010, Mesa joined CD Tenerife B from Segunda División B.[3] Six months later he signed with another reserve team, UD Las Palmas B in the fourth level, being promoted to the main squad the following year.[4]

On 8 October 2011, Mesa appeared in his first game as a professional, starting in a 2–1 away win against Celta de Vigo for the Segunda División championship.[5] He finished the campaign with 22 appearances (ten starts, 947 minutes of action) and, on 31 August of the following year, he was loaned to CD Atlético Baleares in the third division.[6]

Subsequently, Mesa returned to Las Palmas with its B-side, freshly promoted to the third tier. On 28 November 2013 he signed a new four-year deal, running until 2017,[7] and was definitely promoted to the first team in July of the following year.[8]

Mesa scored his first professional goal on 1 November 2014, netting his team's second in a 2–1 home success over Albacete Balompié.[9] He appeared in 35 matches and scored four goals during the season, which ended in promotion to La Liga after a 13-year absence.

Mesa made his debut in the Spanish top flight on 22 August 2015, in a 0–1 loss at Atlético Madrid.[10] On 23 September he scored his first goal in the category, netting the first in a 2–0 home win against Sevilla FC.[11]

References

  1. Las heridas del gladiador Roque Mesa (The wounds of gladiator Roque Mesa); Ideal, 29 April 2016 (Spanish)
  2. Claudio Valerón y Roque refuerzan al Schamann (Claudio Valerón and Roque bolster Schamann); La Provincia, 8 October 2009 (Spanish)
  3. El filial ficha a Roque Mesa (The reserves sign Roque Mesa); La Opinión de Tenerife, 26 January 2010 (Spanish)
  4. Roque, una apuesta para el primer equipo (Roque, a bid for the first team); La Provincia, 5 July 2011 (Spanish)
  5. Las Palmas también pesca en el chollo de Balaídos (Las Palmas also fishes something out of Balaídos); Marca, 8 October 2011 (Spanish)
  6. Roque, cedido al Atlético Baleares, de Segunda B (Roque, loaned to Atlético Baleares, from Segunda B); Fútbol Balear, 31 August 2012 (Spanish)
  7. Las Palmas Atlético, Roque Mesa renueva hasta 2017 (Las Palmas Atlético, Roque Mesa renews until 2017); esFutbol, 28 November 2013 (Spanish)
  8. Roque Mesa cree que debe ser un jugador "importante" en Las Palmas (Roque Mesa believes he should be an "important" player in Las Palmas); Mundo Deportivo, 21 July 2014 (Spanish)
  9. La UD falla mucho ante el colista y acaba ganando por la mínima (UD fails much against the last and ends up winning by the odd goal); Marca, 1 November 2014 (Spanish)
  10. Al Atlético le falta (Atlético lacks something); Marca, 22 August 2015 (Spanish)
  11. "Roque Mesa y Alcaraz agravan la crisis del colista Sevilla" [Roque Mesa and Alcaraz worsen crisis of bottom-placed Sevilla] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
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