Jesús María Lacruz

Jesús Lacruz
Personal information
Full name Jesús María Lacruz Gómez
Date of birth (1978-04-25) 25 April 1978
Place of birth Pamplona, Spain
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Defender
Youth career
1993–1994 Osasuna
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1995 Osasuna B 34 (0)
1995–1997 Osasuna 48 (1)
1997–2006 Athletic Bilbao 224 (12)
2006–2009 Espanyol 48 (0)
2010–2012 Real Unión 56 (1)
Total 410 (14)
National team
1995–1996 Spain U18 6 (0)
1997 Spain U20 4 (0)
1998–2000 Spain U21 9 (0)
2000 Spain U23 5 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Olympic medal record
Representing  Spain
Men's Football
2000 Sydney Team Competition
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Lacruz and the second or maternal family name is Gómez.

Jesús María Lacruz Gómez (born 25 April 1978) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a versatile defender.

He amassed La Liga totals of 272 games and 12 goals over the course of 12 seasons, representing in the competition Athletic Bilbao and Espanyol.

Club career

Born in Pamplona, Navarre, Lacruz's professional career began in 1994 with hometown's CA Osasuna in the second division, making his first appearance for the main squad at not yet 17, and in 1997 he joined Athletic Bilbao, where he made his La Liga debut in a 1–0 home win against Atlético Madrid on 13 September. He was a regular starter for the Basques in six of his nine seasons.

After 251 official games with Bilbao – five in the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League – Lacruz moved to RCD Espanyol in the 2006 summer, for 300,000. He scored his first goal for his new team against A.S. Livorno Calcio in a UEFA Cup match and, in the same competition, he added another in a 2–1 win at SV Werder Bremen as the Catalans went on to lose the final to Sevilla FC; after having appeared in only ten league games in the 2008–09 campaign, the 31-year-old left the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys.

On 14 January 2010, after several months without a club, Lacruz signed with modest Real Unión on a free transfer, until the end of the second division season, returning to the Basque region after three 1/2 years and appearing in 20 matches (all starts) in an eventual relegation.

International career

Lacruz was part of the Spanish squad that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, losing the final to Cameroon.[1] During two years, he appeared nine times for the under-21 team.

Honours

Club

Espanyol

Country

Spain U23

References

  1. "Sidney 2000: Oro negro" [Sidney 2000: Black gold] (in Spanish). Recuerdos de Nigeria. 26 May 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
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