Germán Lux
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Lux with Mallorca in 2011 | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Germán Darío Lux | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 June 1982 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Carcarañá, Argentina | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||
| Club information | |||||||||||||||
Current team | River Plate | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 12 | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1998–2001 | River Plate | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 2001–2007 | River Plate | 53 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2007–2011 | Mallorca | 29 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2011–2017 | Deportivo La Coruña | 106 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2017– | River Plate | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Argentina U20 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | Argentina Olympic | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | Argentina | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:00, 14 May 2017 (UTC). | |||||||||||||||
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Germán Darío Lux (born 7 June 1982) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Club Atlético River Plate as a goalkeeper.
After starting out at River Plate, he spent most of his career in Spain with Mallorca and Deportivo.
Club career
Lux was born in Carcarañá, Santa Fe Province. Nicknamed Poroto, he joined Club Atlético River Plate's youth ranks aged 16, and made his Primera División debuts in 2001. Shortly after, he became first-choice.
In the 2006 Apertura, Lux lost his job to emergent talent Juan Pablo Carrizo and, a few months after, was cut from the squad by coach Daniel Passarella. In the beginning of the year he also lost his brother, who committed suicide.[1]
Lux signed a four-year deal with RCD Mallorca for the 2007–08 season, as a backup to youth graduate Miguel Ángel Moyà, but benefitted from an injury to the latter to appear in ten La Liga games during the campaign. In his second year, the same occurred: Moyà was again downed with physical problems and Lux was promoted to starter,[2] but lost his job in January 2009 with the signing of Dudu Aouate from Deportivo de La Coruña.
In the following two seasons, Lux was almost exclusively restricted to Copa del Rey matches with Mallorca, only amassing five league appearances combined. The same fate befell him in his next club, Deportivo La Coruña, where he played second-fiddle to Daniel Aranzubia for two years.[3][4]
On 26 June 2017, ten years after leaving for Europe, 35-year-old Lux returned to River Plate on a three-year contract.[5]
International career
As a starter (all six matches, no goals conceded) during the 2004 Summer Olympics, Lux was instrumental in the gold medal triumph of the Argentina national team, which netted 17.[6] During the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, however, he had a poor performance with the full side.[7]
Lux was left out of the squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, and Óscar Ustari was picked instead.
Personal life
Lux's older brother, Javier, is also a footballer.[1] A midfielder, he played for several Argentine clubs during his career.
Club statistics
- As of 14 May 2017[8]
| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
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| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Argentina | League | Cup | League Cup | South America | Total | |||||||
| 2001–02 | River Plate | Primera División | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 2003–04 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | ||||||
| 2004–05 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| 2005–06 | 28 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 38 | 0 | ||||||
| 2006–07 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
| Spain | League | Copa del Rey | Supercopa de España | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 2007–08 | Mallorca | La Liga | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | ||||
| 2008–09 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | ||||||
| 2009–10 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| 2010–11 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| 2011–12 | Deportivo | Segunda División | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| 2012–13 | La Liga | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| 2013–14 | Segunda División | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0 | |||||
| 2014–15 | La Liga | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |||||
| 2015–16 | La Liga | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | |||||
| 2016–17 | La Liga | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | |||||
| Total | Argentina | 54 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 72 | 0 | |||||
| Spain | 135 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 158 | 0 | ||||||
| Career total | 189 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 230 | 0 | ||||
Honours
Club
- River Plate
- Deportivo
International
- Argentina
References
- 1 2 Quizás no sea el mejor momento para jugar (Perhaps this is not the best moment to play); ESPN Deportes, 22 January 2006 (in Spanish)
- ↑ Moyá: "No aguantaba el dolor y era mejor parar" (Moyá: "I could not take the pain and it was better to stop"); Diario AS, 3 November 2008 (in Spanish)
- ↑ Aranzubia quiere estar ante el Valladolid (Aranzubia wants to be against Valladolid); Marca, 3 May 2012 (in Spanish)
- ↑ Germán Lux abraza al Deportivo (Germán Lux embraces Deportivo); Vavel, 3 July 2013 (in Spanish)
- ↑ Germán Lux se marcha a River Plate (Germán Lux goes to River Plate); La Voz de Galicia, 26 June 2017 (in Spanish)
- ↑ Germán Lux – FIFA competition record
- ↑ Brazil claim Confederations Cup; UEFA.com, 29 June 2005
- ↑ "G. Lux". Soccerway. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
External links
- Deportivo official profile (in Spanish)
- Argentine League statistics (in Spanish)
- Germán Lux at BDFutbol
- Germán Lux at National-Football-Teams.com
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