Alejandro Vázquez Sotorrío (born 16 March 1983) is a Spanish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays for

UD Los Barrios Unión Deportiva Los Barrios is a Spanish football team based in Los Barrios, Province of Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1993, it plays in Tercera División – Group 10. The team holds home games at ''Estadio San R ...

as a

left back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

Football career

Vázquez was born in

Gijón Gijón () or () is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and municipality by population in the autonomous community of Asturias. It is located on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea in the Bay of Biscay, in the cent ...

, Asturias. After playing for every rank at local

Sporting de Gijón Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. (), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting (although in an international context this can lead to confusion with Sporting Clube de Portugal) is a Spanish football club from Gijón, P ...

's youth system, he could only amass three appearances for the first team in two seasons combined, both in the

second division In sport, the Second Division, also called Division 2 or Division II is usually the second highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Following the rise of Premier League style compet ...

. Vázquez then spent three additional years at lowly

CD Linares Club Deportivo Linares was a Spanish football team based in Linares, Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1990 and dissolved in July 2009, it played its last season in 2008–09, in Second Division B - Group 4. The team's ...

, signing for 2008–09 with another second level club,

Levante UD Levante Unión Deportiva, S.A.D. (, ca-valencia, Llevant Unió Esportiva ) is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club in Valencia, in the Valencian Community, namesake autonomous community. Founded on 9 September 1909, Levante ...

, and appearing very rarely in his sole campaign after which he was released, joining

Alicante CF Alicante Club de Fútbol was a Spanish football team based in Alicante, in the Valencian Community. Founded in 1918, it played its home matches at ''Estadio Alicante CF'', with a 4,000-seat capacity. History ''Alicante Club de Fútbol'', under t ...

Segunda División B Segunda División B ( en, Second Division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish Foot ...

. After spells in Alicante and AD Ceuta, Vázquez played for several clubs in

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vazquez, Alejandro 1983 births Living people Footballers from Gijón Spanish men's footballers Men's association football defenders Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Sporting de Gijón B players Sporting de Gijón players CD Linares players Levante UD footballers Alicante CF footballers AD Ceuta footballers Barakaldo CF footballers Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa players Arandina CF players Lucena CF players CD Torrevieja players UD Los Barrios footballers Real Avilés Industrial CF footballers Europa F.C. players Spanish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Gibraltar Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Gibraltar