Draft:Miguel Ángel Kabankaya Copariate

Miguel Ángel Kabankaya Copariate (Leganés, October 26, 2002) is a professional American football player, he currently plays for the Barcelona Dragons of the European League of Football (ELF). With 1.95 meters high and 140 kilos, he plays in the position of "Offensive Tackle"

Position: Offensive tackle ↵ Birth: 10/26/2002 meters (21 years old) Leganés (Spain) ↵ Nationality: Spanish

Physical Characteristics↵Height: 1.95 cm↵Weight: 140kg

Player profile↵Teams: ↵Barcelona Dragons(2022-2023)↵Potsdam Royals (2023-2024)↵Barcelona Dragons (2024-Present)

Achievements in his career

Southern Conference Champions (2022)↵German Bowl Championship (2023)

Beginnings

Miguel Kabankaya started in the world of sports playing basketball at Club Baloncesto Leganés, his next stop was the academy of Zentro Basket Madrid in which he stayed from Junior to the U21.

Kabankaya decided to leave basketball behind and make the leap to American Football in 2021 with the BlackDemons de las Rozas, a team in which he could not play a single game. The following year in 2022, he began his professional career with the Barcelona Dragons.

Professional

In his first year as a professional, Kabankaya concentrated with the Barcelona Dragons of the European Football League in which he played the season as a "Practice Squad". It was at the end of the season when for the first time he was activated in the "Roster" and he played his first minutes against Stuttgart Surge and the Vienna Vikings as Left Tackle. ↵After that year, Kabankaya decided to leave Spain behind and go abroad and play for the Potsdam Royals (Potsdam) of the German Football League (GFL) team in which he played a total of 15 games and 13 of them as a starter. ↵I finish the season in Germany being champion of the German Bowl and granting only 2 "sacks" playing Left Tackle. ↵He has currently signed again with the Barcelona Dragons and is once again making the step to European football.

Links/News

https://www.fefa.es/lista-de-convocados-para-el-espana-irlanda-del-22-de-octubre-en-pinto-madrid/

https://x.com/ososrivas/status/1713552297546875137?s=46

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1wWKTHu0eR/?igsh=bGowZmwzaHZsZnI3

https://www.mundodeportivo.com/futbol-americano/20240107/1002165630/brugnani-monton-kabankaya-vuelven-dragons.html

https://x.com/aroundtheelf/status/1743773856085471631?s=46

https://elfpedia.eu/Barcelona_Dragons

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