Do you know Javi Lara?

Last update 5 April, 2024 by Alberto Llopis

Javi Lara entered the history of Eibar forever when the 24 of August of 2014, he scored the first goal in the history of Eibar in the First Division. A goal of very beautiful invoice that in the end, served to certify the first victory of the armory team in its first match in the highest category and on top of that in a regional derby against an entire Royal Society.

But the opportunity to debut in the top flight did not come soon. Born in Cordoba, Spain, in December 1985, the glory of football comes to him a few months after his birthday 29 years. Player Talent, with a lot of individual technique and an excellent set piece, Cordoba is a globetrotter of that other football, the modest. Raised in the quarry of Cordoba, he went through teams like Villanueva, Royal Union of Irun, Ecija, Almeria B, Alcala, Elche, Alcoyano in two stages and Ponferradina, the latter already in the Second Division, before reaching the highest category with the shirt of the armory team.

On everyone's lips after the great goal against Real Sociedad, Eibar's talented midfielder, showed that sometimes, in the lower echelons of Spanish football you can find good players, with more than enough level to play in First Division.