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Tariq
Personal information
Full name	Tariq Spezie Sevilla
Date of birth	21 June 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth	Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Racing Blanenc
	Vilobí
Senior career*
Years	Team
1999–2001	Valladolid B
2001–2002	Espanyol B
2002–2003	Cacereño
2003–2004	Linares
2004	Palencia
2004–2005	Sabadell
2005–2008	Águilas
2008–2009	Puertollano
2009–2011	Granada
2011	→ Huesca (loan)
2011–2014	Huesca
2014–2015	Huracán
2016	Castellón
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tariq Spezie Sevilla (born 21 June 1980), known simply as Tariq, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker.

He played 87 games and scored 21 goals in the Segunda División for Granada and Huesca, but spent the vast majority of his career in the Segunda División B, where he recorded figures of 407 matches and 111 goals in service of 11 teams.

Early years

Tariq was born in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates to an Italian father and a Spanish mother, receiving his name from the former – who was working in the country – in honour of Tariq ibn Ziyad.^[2] As the political situation in the region worsened, eventually leading to the Iran–Iraq War, the family relocated to Italy with their one-year infant,^[3] and later to Spain.

Club career

Tariq played youth football in modest clubs in Catalonia,^[2]^[3] making his senior debut with Real Valladolid Promesas and competing one season apiece in the Segunda División B and the Tercera División there. Another reserve team followed in the 2001–02 campaign, as he helped RCD Espanyol B to finish second in the third division, without playoff promotion however.^[4]

Tariq spent the following eight and a half years in division three in representation of seven sides, mainly Águilas CF. In 2008–09 he scored a career-best 24 goals – topping the league^[5]– for UD Puertollano,^[6]^[7] adding 19 for Granada CF in the following year, en route to his first Segunda División promotion.^[8]

On 25 January 2011, Tariq was loaned to SD Huesca – also in the second tier – until the end of the season, via Udinese Calcio.^[9] In less than half of the matches, he scored eight goals (second-best in the squad behind Juanjo Camacho) as the Aragonese club finally retained its league status;^[10] he moved on a permanent basis ahead of the following campaign.^[11]

Tariq joined fellow third-tier Huracán Valencia CF on 2 July 2014.^[12] Following their disqualification for financial issues, he dropped down a league to sign for neighbouring CD Castellón on 18 January 2016.^[5]

Honours

Granada

Segunda División B: 2009–10^[13]

Individual

Segunda División B top scorer: 2008–09^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Tariq Spezie at WorldFootball.net
^ ^a ^b Correal, Francisco (12 November 2008). "El peligro lleva por nombre Tariq" [Danger is spelled Tariq] (in Spanish). Europa Sur. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
^ ^a ^b García, Ángel (21 January 2009). "El árabe de Segunda B" [Segunda B's Arab]. Público (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2011.
^ Carbonell, Andrés (30 June 2002). "El Espanyol B se despide con una nueva derrota" [Espanyol B say goodbye with another loss]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Chova, Edu (18 January 2016). "Tariq refuerza el ataque del Castellón" [Tariq bolsters Castellón's attack]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2017.
^ López, Paco (26 October 2008). "Tariq, califa del gol" [Tariq, the Caliph of Goal]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2011.
^ Morón, Raúl (18 November 2008). "Mi fútbol modesto: Tariq, el goleador del Puertollano, también le marca a la pobreza" [My modest football: Tariq, Puertollano's goal-getter, also scores against poverty] (in Spanish). Notas de Fútbol. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
^ "El delantero del Granada Tariq, ofrecido al Decano" [Granada forward Tariq, offered to the Dean] (in Spanish). El Desmarque. 11 January 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
^ "Tariq llega al Huesca cedido por el Granada" [Tariq arrives to Huesca loaned by Granada]. Marca (in Spanish). 25 January 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
^ Carretero, Rodrigo (13 April 2011). "Tariq vuela en el Huesca" [Tariq soars at Huesca]. Ideal (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2011.
^ "Tariq retorna al Huesca para la temporada 2011–12" [Tariq returns to Huesca for the 2011–12 season]. La Información (in Spanish). 13 July 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
^ Tarancón, P. (2 July 2014). "Huracán cierra el fichaje del delantero Tariq Spezie" [Huracán complete the signing of striker Tariq Spezie]. Super Deporte (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2017.
^ Rodríguez Acosta, Sergio (23 May 2020). "Diez años del gran ascenso del Granada CF a Segunda División" [Tenth anniversary of Granada CF's great promotion to Segunda División]. Granada Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 June 2023.