Antonio Jesús Vázquez Muñoz (born 18 January 1980), known as Jesús Vázquez, is a Spanish former professional
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder.
He played 382
Segunda División
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games and scored 34 goals over 12 seasons, representing mainly
Tenerife and
Recreativo (four years apiece). He added 105 appearances in
La Liga in a 19-year senior career, with the second club as well as
Deportivo.
Club career
Born in
Santa Olalla del Cala
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,
Province of Huelva,
Andalusia, Vázquez first played professionally in the
Segunda División
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, with
CF Extremadura and
CD Tenerife, for a total of seven years. In the
2001–02 season, whilst with the former, he scored a career-best six goals in 39 games but saw his team get relegated.
For the
2006–07 campaign, Vázquez joined
Recreativo de Huelva,
recently promoted to
La Liga, going on to be an undisputed first choice for his hometown club. He never appeared in less than 29 matches during his tenure, precisely when the side were relegated from the top flight at the end of
2008–09.
Vázquez left ''Recre'' in late June 2011 at age 31, and signed with
Deportivo de La Coruña for two years. He spent his
first season nursing a serious
leg injury, but still contributed 1,029 minutes in 12 starts to help the team to return to the top division after only one year.
On 12 July 2013, Vázquez returned to the
Estadio Nuevo Colombino, with the club still in the second tier. He totalled 71 league appearances in his first two years (four goals), but was relegated at the end of
the second.
Vázquez announced his retirement in May 2017, at the age of 37. After one season as manager of
Recreativo's reserves in the
regional leagues, he was appointed youth system coordinator.
Jesús Vázquez, nuevo coordinador de la cantera (Jesús Vázquez, new youth system coordinator)
Recreativo Huelva, 4 July 2019 (in Spanish)
Honours
Deportivo
*Segunda División
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: 2011–12
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1980 births
Living people
Footballers from the Province of Huelva
Spanish men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
CF Extremadura footballers
CD Tenerife players
Recreativo de Huelva players
Deportivo de La Coruña players
Spanish football managers
Tercera División managers