José Luis Sanmartín Mato (born 27 March 1990), commonly known as Joselu, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a striker for English club Stoke City.
Joselu began his career with Celta Vigo being purchased by Real Madrid in the summer of 2009. He was a prolific goalscorer for B Team, scoring 40 goals in 72 appearances but he was unable to break into the first team and was sold to German Bundesliga side 1899 Hoffenheim in August 2012. He spent the 2012–13 season with Hoffenheim and was loaned out to Eintracht Frankfurt in 2013–14. Joselu joined Hannover 96 in June 2014 where he spent the 2014–15 before joining English Premier League side Stoke City in June 2015 for a fee of £5.75 million.
Joselu was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and attended school in the country for four years, when his family returned to Spain. He has two older sisters.
Joselu played his two first professional games for local Celta de Vigo, with the Galicians in the second division, late in the 2008–09 season. Since the age of 18, at about the same time he made his debuts with the main squad, he played with the B-team in the third level.
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