Javier Fernández Abruñedo (born 20 February 1996), most known as Bicho, is a Spanish

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who plays for club

Cultural Leonesa Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa (), better known as Cultural Leonesa or La Cultural, is a Spanish football team based in León, in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon. Founded on 5 August 1923, it currently plays in Primera División RFE ...

as an

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Club career

Born in

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, Bicho was a youth product of local

Deportivo de La Coruña Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña (), commonly known as Deportivo La Coruña () or simply Depor, is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia, that competes in the Segunda División, the ...

. He made his debuts as a senior with the reserves, representing the side in

Tercera División Tercera División () was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Until 1977, it was the third tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segund ...

. Bicho made his official debut for the

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' first team on 17 August 2013, playing the last 3 minutes in a 1–0 away win over

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. He spent the remainder of the campaign appearing with the B-side, however. On 14 July 2014 Bicho joined another

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in a two-year loan deal. On 31 August of the following year he was loaned to

CD Leganés Club Deportivo Leganés, S.A.D. is a professional football club based in Leganés, Community of Madrid. They currently compete in La Liga, the first tier of the Spanish league system. Leganés was officially founded 23 June 1928 and played thei ...

, for one year. Bicho left Deportivo at the end of the 2018–19 season.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bicho 1996 births People from A Coruña (comarca) Footballers from the Province of A Coruña Living people Men's association football midfielders Spanish men's footballers Spain men's youth international footballers Deportivo Fabril players Deportivo de La Coruña players FC Barcelona Atlètic players CD Leganés players SD Compostela footballers Racing de Ferrol footballers San Fernando CD players Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa players Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Primera Federación players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen