AI overview
Manuel Almunia is a Spanish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper during his career. He is notable for his years as a top-level player in European football, most famously serving as Arsenal's primary goalkeeper for an extended period.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Person
- Born
- 1977-05-19
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 30,726x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 22,802x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,451x
- Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models
· 1995 · cited 14,395x
- The Hallmarks of Aging
Article
Manuel Almunia Rivero (born 19 May 1977) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
He competed mainly in the Spanish lower leagues in his early years, only appearing in 26 La Liga games over two seasons with Recreativo and Albacete after starting out at Osasuna. Most of his career was spent with Arsenal, for whom he signed in 2004, going on to play 175 official matches and winning the 2005 FA Cup. He also had a short loan spell at West Ham United, joining Watford in 2012 and retiring two years later.
Gallery (2)
Connections
Categories
1977 births20th-century Spanish sportsmenAlbacete Balompié playersArsenal F.C. playersAssociation football goalkeeping coachesCA Osasuna B playersCA Osasuna playersCD Oberena playersCE Sabadell FC footballersEnglish Football League playersExpatriate men's footballers in EnglandFC Cartagena footballers