Nacho Cases

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cases and the second or maternal family name is Mora.

Nacho Cases
Cases warming up for Sporting Gijón in 2014
Personal information
Full name Ignacio Cases Mora
Date of birth (1987-12-22) 22 December 1987 (age 36)
Place of birth Gijón, Spain
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Central midfielder
Youth career
1993–1994 Codema
1994–2006 Sporting Gijón
2004–2005 → Revillagigedo (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2011 Sporting Gijón B 134 (21)
2011–2017 Sporting Gijón 177 (9)
2017–2021 AEK Larnaca 56 (3)
2020 → Volos (loan) 6 (0)
2021 Sūduva 25 (0)
2022 Anagennisi 13 (0)
2022–2023 Ermis 26 (2)
Total 437 (35)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ignacio 'Nacho' Cases Mora (born 22 December 1987) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.

He spent most of his career with Sporting de Gijón, appearing in 183 competitive games over the course of seven seasons (four in La Liga).[1]

Career

Sporting Gijón

Born in Gijón, Asturias, Cases was a product of Sporting de Gijón's prolific youth academy, Mareo. He made it to the B team during the 2006–07 season, with them playing in the Tercera División; although he proved instrumental in helping to achieve promotion one year later, he struggled for a place in the starting line-ups the following years.[2]

It was not until the 2010–11 campaign, at the age of 23 years – and acting as captain with the reserves – that Cases was finally given his chance to make his first-team debut, starting in a 1–1 away draw against Racing de Santander on 9 January 2011.[3] On 2 April, he assisted Miguel de las Cuevas in the 79th minute of a 1–0 win over Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, thus ending José Mourinho's nine-year unbeaten home league record.[4] He finished his first season as a professional with 18 La Liga appearances, in an escape from relegation,[5] having scored his first goal in the top flight on 15 January 2011 in the 2–0 home defeat of Hércules CF.[6]

AEK Larnaca

On 22 June 2017, 29-year-old Cases announced he was leaving Sporting Gijón and bring to an end a 23-year association with the same club.[7] Shortly after, he joined a host of compatriots at Cyprus' AEK Larnaca FC.[8]

Career statistics

As of match played on 4 January 2020
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sporting Gijón B 2006–07[9] Tercera División 33 6 — 2[a] 0 35 6
2007–08[9] 30 10 — 4[a] 1 34 11
2008–09[9] Segunda División B 33 1 — 2[b] 0 35 1
2009–10[9] 20 1 — — 20 1
2010–11[9] 18 3 — — 18 3
Total 134 21 — 8 1 142 22
Sporting Gijón 2010–11[9] La Liga 18 1 0 0 — 18 1
2011–12[9] 21 0 1 0 — 22 0
2012–13[9] Segunda División 33 2 1 1 — 34 3
2013–14[9] 27 2 0 0 1[c] 0 28 2
2014–15[9] 33 2 0 0 — 33 2
2015–16[9] La Liga 24 1 1 0 — 25 1
2016–17[9] 21 1 2 0 — 23 1
Total 177 9 5 1 1 0 183 10
AEK Larnaca 2017–18[10] Cypriot First Division 25 0 6 1 0 0 31 1
2018–19[10] 17 1 2 0 8[d] 0 27 1
2019–20[10] 14 2 0 0 6[d] 0 20 2
Total 56 3 8 1 14 0 78 4
Career total 367 33 13 2 23 1 403 36
  1. ^ a b Appearances in Tercera División promotion play-offs
  2. ^ Appearances in Segunda División B relegation play-offs
  3. ^ Appearance in La Liga play-offs
  4. ^ a b Appearances in UEFA Europa League

Honours

AEK Larnaca

References

  1. ^ Vigil Morán, Alejandro (19 July 2023). "El Sporting contrata a Nacho Cases tras su retirada como futbolista profesional" [Sporting sign Nacho Cases following his retirement as a professional footballer]. La Voz de Asturias (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  2. ^ Barrio, J. (7 January 2011). "El último canterano de su generación" [The last youth player of his generation]. El Comercio (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 January 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  3. ^ Rivas, Juan Carlos (10 January 2011). ""Nos vamos a salvar", afirma Cases" ['We will stay up', says Cases]. El Comercio (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 January 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  4. ^ "Real suffer Sporting shock". Sky Sports. 2 April 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  5. ^ "El descubrimiento del año" [Finding of the year]. La Nueva España (in Spanish). 3 January 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  6. ^ "El Sporting rompe su racha negativa a costa del Hércules" [Sporting end their negative streak at the expense of Hércules]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 15 January 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Entrevista a Nacho Cases" [Interview to Nacho Cases] (in Spanish). Sporting Gijón. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  8. ^ "ΣΥΜΦΩΝΙΑ ΜΕ SPORTING GIJON ΓΙΑ NACHO CASES!" [Agreement with Sporting Gijón for Nacho Cases!] (in Greek). AEK Larnaca. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Nacho Cases at BDFutbol
  10. ^ a b c d Nacho Cases at Soccerway
  11. ^ Xarilaou, Xaris. "Cyprus 2017/18". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 May 2022.