Javi Navarro (footballer, born 1974)

Javi Navarro
Personal information
Full name Francisco Javier Vicente Navarro
Date of birth (1974-02-06) 6 February 1974 (age 49)
Place of birth Valencia, Spain
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Youth career
Valencia
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–2000 Valencia B 53 (0)
1994–2001 Valencia 41 (0)
1994–1995Logroñés (loan) 15 (0)
2000–2001Elche (loan) 34 (0)
2001–2009 Sevilla 168 (3)
Total 311 (3)
International career
1990 Spain U16 5 (0)
1990 Spain U17 7 (0)
1990–1991 Spain U18 9 (0)
1993 Spain U20 3 (0)
1996 Spain U21 2 (0)
1996 Spain U23 3 (0)
2006–2007 Spain 4 (0)
Managerial career
2010–2012 Sevilla (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Francisco Javier "Javi" Vicente Navarro (born 6 February 1974) is a Spanish retired professional footballer.

During his career, the central defender represented mainly Valencia and Sevilla, achieving great success with the latter club – five major titles, including two UEFA Cups. Over 15 seasons, greatly hindered by injuries, he amassed La Liga totals of 224 matches and three goals.

Navarro played four times for Spain, making his debut in 2006.

Club career

Valencia

Navarro was born in Valencia. A product of hometown club Valencia CF's youth system, he made his first-team debut during the 1993–94 season – four La Liga appearances – and, after a loan stint with CD Logroñés also in the top flight, returned for 1995–96, playing 19 matches as the side finished runners-up.

Navarro suffered a serious knee injury in late 1996, being out of action almost three years and then loaned to neighbours Elche CF for 2000–01 upon his recovery.

Sevilla

After that single campaign in the Segunda División, in July 2001 Navarro signed for Sevilla FC, where he proceeded to form a formidable centre-back partnership with Pablo Alfaro the next five years. He scored his first goal in the top flight on 15 June 2003, but in a 3–2 away loss against Málaga CF. On 20 March 2005, he brutally impacted with his elbow on RCD Mallorca's Juan Arango, leaving the Venezuelan unconscious on the pitch.

After being one of Sevilla's most important players throughout the team's conquests from 2005 to 2007 (two UEFA Cups, one UEFA Super Cup and one Copa del Rey), Navarro spent two years on the sidelines with another severe knee injury. He eventually retired from the game at the end of the 2008–09 season, aged 35.

Navarro returned to Sevilla in late June 2010, being named manager Antonio Álvarez's assistant.

International career

At the age of 32 years and nine months, Navarro earned his first cap for Spain in a friendly 0–1 loss against Romania on 15 November 2006 in Cádiz, becoming the third-oldest debutant for the national team after Ferenc Puskás (34) and Vicente Engonga (32 and 11 months).

Previously, he appeared with the nation at the 1996 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals.

Honours

Sevilla

Spain U21


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