Román Martínez (footballer)
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Martínez playing with Espanyol in 2009
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Román Fernando Martínez | ||
Date of birth | 27 March 1983 | ||
Place of birth | Morón, Argentina | ||
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Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Lanús | ||
Number | 27 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2000–2004 | Deportivo Morón | 64 | (6) |
2004–2008 | Arsenal Sarandí | 11 | (0) |
2006–2008 | → Tigre (loan) | 70 | (9) |
2008–2011 | Espanyol | 32 | (5) |
2009–2010 | → Tenerife (loan) | 23 | (5) |
2010–2011 | → Tigre (loan) | 24 | (3) |
2011–2012 | Tigre | 35 | (4) |
2012–2015 | Estudiantes | 76 | (10) |
2015– | Lanús | 16 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 January 2016 |
Román Fernando Martínez (born 27 March 1983) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Club Atlético Lanús as a central midfielder.
Football career
Born in Morón, Buenos Aires, Martínez started his playing career with local Club Deportivo Morón in 2000. After several seasons playing in the third division, he joined Arsenal de Sarandí of the top level.
In 2006, Martínez dropped down to division two to play for Club Atlético Tigre, but gained promotion in his first season. The Apertura 2007 was the club's first year in the main division since 1980, and the player appeared in nearly all of the team's games helping to a final second-place finish, the highest in its history.
For the 2008–09 campaign, Martínez signed with Spain's RCD Espanyol. On 13 December 2008 he scored his first goal for the Catalans, in a 1–2 loss in Valencia CF.[1] Benefitting heavily from Iván de la Peña's constant injury problems, he featured regularly, and netted in three consecutive wins in late April/early May 2009, all as a substitute: Sporting de Gijón (3–0[2]), Real Betis (2–0[3]) and again Valencia (3–0, finding the net after just two minutes[4]).
Martínez was subsequently loaned for one season to CD Tenerife, which had returned to La Liga after seven years.[5] In an irregular campaign, where he alternated starts with the bench, he scored four of his five league goals in the last seven matches – which granted the team six points, after wins against Gijón[6] and Racing de Santander[7]– but the Canary Islands side was finally relegated.
Martínez returned to Argentina for 2010–11, re-joining Tigre on a one-year loan.[8]
References
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External links
- Argentine League statistics (Spanish)
- BDFA profile (Spanish)
- Román Martínez profile at BDFutbol
- Román Martínez at Soccerway
- Football-Lineups profile
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- Pages with broken file links
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- Articles with Spanish-language external links
- 1983 births
- Living people
- People from Morón Partido
- Argentine footballers
- Association football midfielders
- Argentine Primera División players
- Club Deportivo Morón footballers
- Arsenal de Sarandí footballers
- Club Atlético Tigre footballers
- Estudiantes de La Plata footballers
- Club Atlético Lanús footballers
- La Liga players
- RCD Espanyol footballers
- CD Tenerife players
- Argentine expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Argentine expatriates in Spain