Carlos Lázaro Vallejo (born 13 November 1990) is a Spanish

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who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

Club career

Although born in

Medina del Campo Medina del Campo is a town and municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Part of the Province of Valladolid, it is the centre of a farming area. History Medina del Campo grew in importance thanks to its fairs ...

, Lázaro grew up in Olmedo (also located in

Valladolid Valladolid () is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province o ...

), where he began to play football. Aged 12, he joined

Real Valladolid Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., or simply Real Valladolid () or Valladolid, is a professional football club based in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain that competes in La Liga, the top tier of the Spanish league system. The club colo ...

's youth system and played his first seasons with the reserves, suffering relegation to the fourth division in his first year. First-team coach

José Luis Mendilibar José Luis Mendilibar Etxebarria (born 14 March 1961) is a Spanish former Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder, currently Manager (association football), manager of Sevilla FC. He played no higher than Segunda División, ...

gave Lázaro his first chance to appear in

La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men's ...

, in one of his last games before being sacked: on 17 January 2010, he played the full 90 minutes against

Racing de Santander Real Racing Club de Santander, S.A.D. (), also known as Racing de Santander () or simply Racing, is a football club based in Santander, Cantabria, Spain, that currently competes in Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish league system ...

in a final 1–1 away draw. After appearing in six of the following seven matches – three starts, but five defeats – under new manager

Onésimo Sánchez Onésimo Sánchez González (born 14 August 1968), known simply as Onésimo as a player, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as forward or winger, currently a manager. Onésimo was mainly associated with Real Valladolid thr ...

, he suffered a serious injury and could not help prevent the

Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...

side's

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, after a 0–4 loss at

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. For 2010–11, Lázaro was definitely promoted to Valladolid's first team, but made no official appearances whatsoever during the season, due to a bout of

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and an

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injury. In April 2012, he was loaned to

SD Huesca Sociedad Deportiva Huesca, S.A.D., is a Spanish football club in Huesca, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded on 29 March 1960, SD Huesca plays in the Segunda División, having played in the Spanish top division for the first time in t ...

also in the second level until the end of the campaign, as a replacement for injured David Bauzá.Lázaro, cedido al Huesca para cubrir la baja de Bauzá (Lázaro, loaned to Huesca to cover for Bauzá loss)

Diario AS ''Diario AS'' () is a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on football. Profile ''Diario AS'' is part of PRISA which also owns '' El País'' and ''Cinco Días''. The paper particularly covers news of the Community of M ...

, 5 April 2012 (in Spanish)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lazaro, Carlos 1990 births Living people People from Medina del Campo Sportspeople from the Province of Valladolid Spanish footballers Footballers from Castile and León Association football midfielders La Liga players Segunda División players Segunda División B players Real Valladolid Promesas players Real Valladolid players SD Huesca footballers Deportivo Alavés players Hércules CF players CD Mirandés footballers Lleida Esportiu footballers Spain youth international footballers