Óscar de Paula

Óscar de Paula
Personal information
Full name Óscar de Paula Gamero
Date of birth (1975-05-31) 31 May 1975
Place of birth Durango, Spain
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
 Palencia (coach)
Youth career
Olivenza
Salesianos
Badajoz
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1995 Badajoz 27 (5)
1995–2006 Real Sociedad 273 (57)
2006–2007 Cádiz 30 (4)
2007–2011 Ponferradina 114 (48)
Total 444 (114)
National team
1996–1998 Spain U21 7 (1)
Teams managed
2015–2016 Badajoz
2016– Palencia

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is De Paula and the second or maternal family name is Gamero.

Óscar de Paula Gamero (born 31 May 1975) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a striker, and the current manager of CD Palencia Balompié.

Most of his professional career was associated with Real Sociedad, for which he appeared in 11 La Liga seasons, playing in 300 competitive games and scoring 60 goals.

Club career

Born in Durango, Biscay, Basque Country, de Paula began his football career playing for lowly clubs in Badajoz, as his family hailed from Olivenza (Extremadura). Being still a junior he moved to local CD Badajoz, and made his professional debuts midway through the 1992–93 campaign in the second division.

At the beginning of 1995–96, de Paula moved back to his native region to play for La Liga side Real Sociedad. His first game came on 10 September 1995, playing three minutes of a 3–0 home win against Sporting de Gijón; he went on to play 11 seasons at Sociedad, all of them in the first division.

De Paula's time as a player for Real Sociedad was very successful although he was never a regular starter, more often than not scoring goals after coming in as a substitute, and usually made a good goals scored/minutes played ratio. Through 1999 to 2001 he netted nine goals in each season, but only appeared in 11 contests in 2002–03 as the club finished runner-up and, in his last year, managed just six matches (280 minutes) with three goals.

In June 2006 de Paula's contract expired,[1] and he left and moved south to Cádiz CF in the second-tier, "descending" yet another level at the end of 2007–08 after joining third level's SD Ponferradina and scoring 32 league goals in his first two seasons combined (16 apiece).

De Paula netted 11 times in 25 games in the 2009–10 campaign as the Castile and León team returned to the second division after a three-year absence. However, Ponfe would be immediately relegated back and, aged 36, he announced his professional retirement, having appeared in 444 league matches both major levels combined and scored 114 goals.

References

  1. ↑ De Paula signs out at Real Sociedad; UEFA.com, 9 June 2006
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