Nacho Cases

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
Place of birth Gijón, Spain
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position 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
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Sporting Gijón B 2006–07[9] Tercera División 336—2[a]0356
2007–08[9] 3010—4[a]13411
2008–09[9] Segunda División B 331—2[b]0351
2009–10[9] 201——201
2010–11[9] 183——183
Total 13421—8114222
Sporting Gijón 2010–11[9] La Liga 18100—181
2011–12[9] 21010—220
2012–13[9] Segunda División 33211—343
2013–14[9] 272001[c]0282
2014–15[9] 33200—332
2015–16[9] La Liga 24110—251
2016–17[9] 21120—231
Total 1779511018310
AEK Larnaca 2017–18[10] Cypriot First Division 2506100311
2018–19[10] 171208[d]0271
2019–20[10] 142006[d]0202
Total 56381140784
Career total 3673313223140336
  1. 1 2 Appearances in Tercera División promotion play-offs
  2. ↑ Appearances in Segunda División B relegation play-offs
  3. ↑ Appearance in La Liga play-offs
  4. 1 2 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. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nacho Cases at BDFutbol
  10. 1 2 3 4 Nacho Cases at Soccerway
  11. ↑ Xarilaou, Xaris. "Cyprus 2017/18". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
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