Juan José García Martínez (born 16 May 1987), commonly known as Juanjo, 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 ...

who plays for

Racing Murcia FC Racing Murcia City 1913 Fútbol Club is a football club based in Murcia a district in center of Murcia Center, Murcia, Spain. Founded on 1 September 2013, it plays in Tercera División RFEF – Group 13, holding home games at the Estadio Univers ...

. Mainly a

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, he can also play as a winger.

Club career

Born in

Murcia Murcia (, , ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country. It has a population of 460,349 inhabitants in 2021 (about one ...

, Sánchez was a

Real Murcia Real Murcia Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., commonly known as Real Murcia (, "Royal Murcia"), is a Spanish football club based in Murcia, in the Región de Murcia. Founded in 1919, it currently plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2, playing ho ...

youth graduate and made his debut as a senior with the reserves in 2006 in the

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 ...

. In August 2010, he was loaned to Segunda División B side

Real Jaén Real Jaén Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Jaén, Spain, Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1929 it plays in Tercera División RFEF, holding home matches at ''Nu ...

for one season. Juanjo continued to compete in the third level in the following years, representing

Lorca Atlético CF Lorca Atlético Club de Fútbol was a Spanish football team based in Lorca, in the Region of Murcia. Founded in 2010, it held its home games at the Estadio Francisco Artés Carrasco, with a capacity of 8,120 seats. The club was relegated to Prefe ...

La Roda CF La Roda Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in La Roda, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Founded in 1999 it plays in Segunda División B – Group 4, holding home games at ''Estadio Municipal de Deportes'', which h ...

Gimnàstic de Tarragona Club Gimnàstic de Tarragona, commonly known as Gimnàstic Tarragona or sometimes just Nàstic, is a Spanish sports club based in Tarragona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Its football team plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2. ...

UD Melilla Unión Deportiva Melilla is a Spanish football team based in the autonomous city of Melilla. Founded in 1976, it currently plays in Segunda División RFEF – Group 5, holding home matches at '' Estadio Municipal Álvarez Claro'', with a 8,000 c ...

, and Cádiz CF. He was promoted to Segunda División with the latter team in

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, appearing in 29 matches ( play-offs included). Garrido made his professional debut on 19 August 2016, coming on as a second-half substitute for Luis Ruiz in a 1-1 away draw against

UD Almería Unión Deportiva Almería, S.A.D. () is a Spanish professional football club based in Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded on 26 July 1989 and known as ''Almería Club de Fútbol'' until 2001, when it was renamed ''Unión D ...

. He left the

Estadio Ramón de Carranza Nuevo Mirandilla is a football stadium in Cádiz, Spain. The stadium is the home ground of Cádiz CF. The stadium was originally inaugurated as ''Estadio Ramón de Carranza'' on 3 September 1955. It has since then been completely rebuilt twice ...

the following 19 January by mutual consent, and returned to his first club, Murcia, just hours later.

References

External links

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Stats and bio at Cadistas1910
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Juanjo 1987 births Living people Footballers from Murcia Spanish men's footballers Men's association football defenders Men's association football wingers Men's association football utility players Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Real Murcia Imperial players Real Jaén footballers Lorca Atlético CF players La Roda CF players Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers UD Melilla footballers Cádiz CF players Real Murcia CF players CF Lorca Deportiva players CD Badajoz players CD Guijuelo footballers Internacional de Madrid players Racing Murcia FC players