Juan Ugarte

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Juan Ugarte
Personal information
Full name	Juan Ugarte Aiestarán
Date of birth	November 7, 1980 (1980-11-07) (age 27)
Place of birth	San Sebastián, Spain
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth clubs
1997-1999	Real Sociedad Juvenil (División Honor)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998-2002 2002-2003 2002-2003 2003-2004 2003-2004 2004–2005 2005-2006 2006 2006-2008	Real Sociedad B SD Eibar Real Unión Barakaldo CF Dorchester Town Wrexham Crewe Alexandra → Wrexham (loan) Wrexham	01 0(0) 01 0(0) 16 0(3) 29 0(6) 07 0(6) 30 (17) 02 0(0) 02 0(0) 00 0(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 10, 2006. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of July 10, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Juan Ugarte (born 7 November 1980 in San Sebastián) is a former professional footballer, who most notably played for Football League Two side Wrexham.

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

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

He started his career with San Sebastian's Real Sociedad and has also played for SD Eibar, Red Union Club Irún, Barakaldo CF and then moved to England with Dorchester Town until he was snapped up by Wrexham. Ugarte 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.

Ugarte then joined Football League One 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 he has had problems with his knee and hamstring. Due to persistent injury problems, Ugarte had his Wrexham contract cancelled, and retired from professional football on January 16, 2008.