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The five foot seven inch "Mane" (Jose Manuel Jimenez Ortiz) was born in Tarifa, a small town near the port city of Algeciras in the province of Cádiz on the southern tip of Spain. He came up through the youth system at Real Balompédica Linense in the third tier of Spanish football and made his maiden appearance for the senior team at age 19. Stints followed at CD Díter Zafra, also in the third tier, and at Atlético Madrid B and Ciudad de Murcia, both in the second tier.
Between 2006 and 2009 Mane played alongside Maccabi defender Carlos Garcia at UD Almería and celebrated the club's historic promotion to La Liga in 2007. In his second season at Almería (2007/8) Mane excelled, scoring a brace in matches against both Mallorca and Recreativo de Huelva and helping his modest club from the Spanish province of Andalusia finish eighth in the La Liga table. After 68 league appearances for Almería, Mane moved on to the Spanish capital Madrid's third team Getafe CF, where the highly prized defender maintained his place on the squad and scored two goals in a further 101 league appearances. When Maccabi Tel Aviv made their offer in the summer of 2013, Mane agreed to a two-year deal with the Israeli champions and joined his teammates at the club's Austrian training camp in the run up to the 2013/14 season.
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