Carlos de la Vega

Carlos de la Vega
Personal information
Full name	Carlos de la Vega Díaz
Date of birth	24 January 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Right back
Youth career
	Colegio Diocesano
	Rayo Vallecano
Senior career*
Years	Team
1999–2005	Rayo B
2003	Rayo Vallecano
2005–2006	Alcalá
2006–2007	Alcorcón
2007–2011	Rayo Vallecano
2010	→ Huesca (loan)
2012–2014	Leganés
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Carlos de la Vega Díaz (born 24 January 1980) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right back.

Football career

After emerging through Rayo Vallecano's youth system, de la Vega went on to play with amateur sides RSD Alcalá and AD Alcorcón, also from his hometown of Madrid, until well into his 20s.

He did not have his first taste of full professional football until the 2008–09 season (he had only played one match with Rayo's first team in 2002–03's La Liga, two minutes^[1]) when, after returning to Rayo in the previous year, he was fairly used as the club easily retained its Segunda División status.

In late December 2009, unsettled de la Vega was loaned to another side in the second level, SD Huesca, until the end of the season. In July 2012, after more than one year out of football, the 32-year-old signed for two seasons with CD Leganés of Segunda División B.

Drug scandal

In February 2009, de la Vega was arrested in connection with an anti-drug operation in the Spanish capital.^[2] After eight days, he paid €30.000 in order to be released from custody.^[3]

Former footballers Predrag Stanković and Txutxi were also involved in the plot, among others. In 2014 (confirmation in 2015) de la Vega was one of two persons acquitted, as five other people received sentences that ranged from four to 12 years.^[4]

References

^ Luis Enrique se hace imprescindible (Luis Enrique becomes essential); El Mundo, 4 May 2003 (in Spanish)
^ El jugador del Rayo Carlos de la Vega a prisión por tráfico de drogas (Rayo Vallecano player Carlos de la Vega in jail for drug traffic) Archived 2009-03-01 at the Wayback Machine; La Razón, 18 February 2009 (in Spanish)
^ Carlos de la Vega, en libertad bajo fianza (Carlos de la Vega, free on bail); Marca, 6 March 2009 (in Spanish)
^ Nueve años de cárcel por narcotráfico a Stankovic y a Txutxi (Nine years in prison for Stankovic and Txutxi for drug traffic); Marca, 9 February 2015 (in Spanish)

External links

Carlos de la Vega at BDFutbol
Carlos de la Vega at Soccerway

[1] Luis Enrique se hace imprescindible (Luis Enrique becomes essential); El Mundo, 4 May 2003 (in Spanish)

[2] El jugador del Rayo Carlos de la Vega a prisión por tráfico de drogas (Rayo Vallecano player Carlos de la Vega in jail for drug traffic) Archived 2009-03-01 at the Wayback Machine; La Razón, 18 February 2009 (in Spanish)

[3] Carlos de la Vega, en libertad bajo fianza (Carlos de la Vega, free on bail); Marca, 6 March 2009 (in Spanish)

[4] Nueve años de cárcel por narcotráfico a Stankovic y a Txutxi (Nine years in prison for Stankovic and Txutxi for drug traffic); Marca, 9 February 2015 (in Spanish)

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