Juan Ugarte

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Juan Ugarte is a professional footballer currently playing for Wrexham A.F.C..

Juan's claim-to-fame is scoring five times one game in a 6-4 thriller against Hartlepool United and scoring in the LDV vans final which Wrexham won 2-0 against Southend United. [1]

Juan is reportedly friends with Liverpool's Xabi Alonso. [2]

He started his career with San Sebastian's Real Sociedad and has also played for Eibar, Red Union Club Irún, Barakaldo and then moved to England with Dorchester until he was snapped up by Wrexham. Juan scored his first goal, which would be the winning goal in an LDV Vans Trophy quarter final tie against local rivals Chester City. This made him popular with the Wrexham fans. He would score many goals, which gave Wrexham some chance of avoiding relegation to League Two after their 10-point deduction for entering administration left them as one of the favourites for the drop in the 2004-05 season. He would also finish top scorer in the LDV Vans Trophy that season.

Juan then joined League 1 club Crewe Alexandra, but injuries prevented him from ever starting a game for the Alex[3] and also cut short two loan returns to Wrexham after just one game each time. Despite his injury problems, the Dragons resigned him in November 2006 after Crewe had released him in May of that year, but up to February 24 2007 problems with his knee and hamstring mean he has still not started a game in his current spell.