Jaime Lozano

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Jaime Lozano

Full name	Jaime Arturo Lozano Espín
Date of birth	September 29, 1979 (1979-09-29) (age 28)
Place of birth	Mexico City, Mexico
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Left Wing Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Club Deportivo Cruz Azul
Number	13
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1999-2001 2001-2002 2002-2005 2005-2007 2007-present	UNAM Pumas Celaya UNAM Pumas UANL Tigres Cruz Azul	50 (5) 24 (1) 99 (20) 70 (13) 22 (3)
National team
2000-	Mexico	27 (12)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Jaime Arturo Lozano Espín (born September 29, 1979 in Mexico City) is a Mexican football player who, as of 2006 was playing for UANL Tigres. In Tigres, he plays midfielder position with the number 21. He is often simply called "Jimmy" Lozano, however, sometimes he is also called in other media as "El Actor" because he was born to a family of actors. Lozano is well known for his free-kicks and his left foot.

He debuted with Pumas UNAM in 1998, and until 2001, when he moved to Celaya to play for a team that then contested in the Mexican First Division, but has since been relegated. In 2002 he returned to Pumas where he won the Mexican Championship twice, after that, Lozano had problems renewing his contract for the next tournament and became a free agent, and signed with Tigres UANL. Lozano made a good first impression with Tigres fans, scoring a free kick goal against Club America in his first game with Tigres.

Lozano has been called for the Mexican National Team many times; he became instrumental in the qualification to the 2006 FIFA World Cup scoring several important goals. However, a series of injuries kept him away from the team in the matches previous to the tournament. Nevertheless, he was nominated by Ricardo Lavolpe in a list of 26 players from which he would get the definitive list of 23, in the hope that his condition improves for the competition. However, he performed poorly and didn't make to the final list.

Lozano was one of the selected by Hugo Sanchez to compete in the Copa America 2007. He made his first appearance in the tournament coming in as a sub during Mexico's victory over Brazil (2-0). Jaime Lozano was currently separated from the first team of Tigres and sent down to Tigres second division squad but now plays with Cruz Azul.

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Cruz Azul – current squad

1 Pérez • 2 A. Rodríguez • 3 Huiqui • 4 Domínguez • 6 Torrado • 7 Riveros • 8 Bonet • 9 Zeballos • 10 Andrade • 11 Sabah • 12 Valdivia • 13 Lozano • 14 Beltrán • 15 Vigneri • 16 Chávez • 17 Juárez • 18 Villaluz • 20 Lopez • 21 Caniza • 22 Cortés • 23 Lugo • 25 Gutiérrez • 26 Velasco • 27 Castro • 28 Gutiérrez • 29 Galván • 30 Márquez • 31 Ceja • Manager: Markarián