.jpg) Aspas with Galicia in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Iago Aspas Juncal[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 1 August 1987[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Moaña, Spain[2] | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[3] | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Celta | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Moaña | |||
| Santa Mariña | |||
| 1995–2006 | Celta | ||
| 2004–2005 | → Rápido Bouzas (loan) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2009 | Celta B | 84 | (11) |
| 2008–2013 | Celta | 139 | (46) |
| 2013–2015 | Liverpool | 14 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | → Sevilla (loan) | 16 | (2) |
| 2015– | Celta | 319 | (145) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2016– | Spain | 20 | (6) |
| 2016 | Galicia | 1 | (1) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:20, 10 November 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:46, 28 March 2023 (UTC) | |||
Iago Aspas Juncal (Galician pronunciation: [iˈaɣʊ ˈaspɐs]; born 1 August 1987) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Celta, which he captains, and the Spain national team.
He has spent most of his career with Celta, appearing in 493 official games across 15 seasons and scoring 204 goals.[4] He made his La Liga debut with the club in 2012 and moved to Liverpool the following year, returning to Celta in 2015 after a loan at Sevilla.
Aspas first appeared with the Spain senior team in 2016. He represented the country at the 2018 World Cup.
- ^ "Barclays Premier League squad numbers 2013/14". Premier League. 16 August 2013. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ^ a b "Iago Aspas". Eurosport. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "Iago Aspas". Celta Vigo. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ Paniagua, Raúl (8 January 2013). "Iago Aspas, la perla del Celta" [Iago Aspas, Celta's gem]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2013.