![]() Cases warming up for Sporting Gijón in 2014 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ignacio Cases Mora | ||
Date of birth | 22 December 1987 | ||
Place of birth | Gijón, Spain | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | 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]
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]
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]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Other | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Sporting Gijón B | 2006–07 [9] | Tercera División | 33 | 6 | — | 2 [a] | 0 | 35 | 6 | |
2007–08 [9] | 30 | 10 | — | 4 [a] | 1 | 34 | 11 | |||
2008–09 [9] | Segunda División B | 33 | 1 | — | 2 [b] | 0 | 35 | 1 | ||
2009–10 [9] | 20 | 1 | — | — | 20 | 1 | ||||
2010–11 [9] | 18 | 3 | — | — | 18 | 3 | ||||
Total | 134 | 21 | — | 8 | 1 | 142 | 22 | |||
Sporting Gijón | 2010–11 [9] | La Liga | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 18 | 1 | |
2011–12 [9] | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 22 | 0 | |||
2012–13 [9] | Segunda División | 33 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 34 | 3 | ||
2013–14 [9] | 27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 [c] | 0 | 28 | 2 | ||
2014–15 [9] | 33 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 33 | 2 | |||
2015–16 [9] | La Liga | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 25 | 1 | ||
2016–17 [9] | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 23 | 1 | |||
Total | 177 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 183 | 10 | ||
AEK Larnaca | 2017–18 [10] | Cypriot First Division | 25 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 1 |
2018–19 [10] | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 [d] | 0 | 27 | 1 | ||
2019–20 [10] | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 [d] | 0 | 20 | 2 | ||
Total | 56 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 78 | 4 | ||
Career total | 367 | 33 | 13 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 403 | 36 |
AEK Larnaca