Francisco Javier 'Javi' López Díaz (born 20 April 1988) is a Spanish

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who plays for

Juventud de Torremolinos CF Juventud de Torremolinos Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Torremolinos, Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1958, it plays in , holding home matches at ''Estadio Municipal El Pozuelo''. Season to sea ...

as a

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Club career

López was born in

Málaga Málaga (, ) is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 578,460 in 2020, it is the second-most populous city in Andalusia after Seville and the sixth most pop ...

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. As a product of hometown

Málaga CF Málaga Club de Fútbol (, ''Málaga Football Club''), or simply Málaga, is a association football, football club based in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, that competes in the Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish football league system, ...

's youth ranks, he made his first-team – and

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– debut on 7 November 2009, scoring in a 2–2 away draw against CD Tenerife; another player promoted from the reserves,

Daniel Toribio Daniel Toribio Gutiérrez (born 5 October 1988) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Andorran club FC Santa Coloma. Club career Born in Girona, Catalonia, Toribio was a product of FC Barcelona's youth academy. He jo ...

, also made his first appearance in that game. Firmly established in the side's starting XI, López netted his second goal on 31 January 2010 in a 2–0 victory at

Atlético Madrid Club Atlético de Madrid, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D. (; meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), known simply as Atleti in the Spanish-speaking world and commonly referred to at international level as Atlético Madrid, is a Spanish profess ...

. For the 2010–11 season, however, he was loaned to SD Ponferradina, recently returned to the

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, alongside teammate Toribio. He scored his first goal on 11 September, but this happened in a 1–5 home loss to

Villarreal CF B Villarreal Club de Fútbol "B" is a Spanish football team based in Villarreal, in the autonomous community of Valencia. Founded in 1999, it is the reserve team of Villarreal CF and plays in Segunda División, holding home games at ''Ciudad Deporti ...

. López was again loaned the following summer, this time to Real Jaén of

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. He made his official debut on 18 September 2011 in a 2−0 home defeat of CD Puertollano, and scored his first goal on 12 February of the following year in a 1−1 draw against the same opponents. On 6 June 2012, López was told that his contract would not be renewed by Málaga, and he would be free to start looking for a new club. The following month, he signed with

Getafe CF Getafe Club de Fútbol (), or simply Getafe, is a professional football club based in Getafe, a city in the Community of Madrid. The team competes in La Liga, the highest tier of the Spanish football system. The club's home stadium (owned and op ...

's reserves in division three; he continued competing in that tier the following years, representing a host of teams.El Pontevedra busca dos refuerzos (Pontevedra looking to sign two)
Faro de Vigo, 19 December 2018 (in Spanish)

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