Germán Lux

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Germán Lux
Germán Lux.jpg
Lux with Mallorca in 2011
Personal information
Full name Germán Darío Lux[1]
Date of birth (1982-06-07) 7 June 1982 (age 39)[1]
Place of birth Carcarañá, Argentina [1]
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1998–2001 River Plate
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2007 River Plate 53 (0)
2007–2011 Mallorca 29 (0)
2011–2017 Deportivo La Coruña 106 (0)
2017–2021 River Plate 12 (0)
Total 200 (0)
National team
2001 Argentina U20 5 (0)
2004 Argentina Olympic 9 (0)
2005 Argentina 6 (0)
Honours
Representing Argentina
Men's Football
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team Competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 April 2019

Germán Darío Lux (born 7 June 1982) is an retired Argentine professional footballer who last played for River Plate as a goalkeeper.

After starting out at River Plate, he spent most of his career in Spain with Mallorca and Deportivo.

Club career[]

Lux was born in Carcarañá, Santa Fe Province. Nicknamed Poroto, he joined Club Atlético River Plate's youth ranks aged 16, and made his Primera División debut in 2001. Shortly after, he became first choice.

In the 2006 Apertura, Lux lost his job to emergent talent Juan Pablo Carrizo and, a few months after, was cut from the squad by coach Daniel Passarella. In the beginning of the year he also lost his brother, who committed suicide.[2]

Lux signed a four-year deal with RCD Mallorca for the 2007–08 season, as a backup to youth graduate Miguel Ángel Moyá, but benefitted from an injury to the latter to appear in ten La Liga matches during the campaign. In his second year, the same occurred: Moyá was again downed with physical problems and Lux was promoted to starter,[3] but lost his job in January 2009 with the signing of Dudu Aouate from Deportivo de La Coruña.

In the following two seasons, Lux was almost exclusively restricted to Copa del Rey matches with Mallorca, only making a total of five league appearances. The same fate befell him in his next club, Deportivo La Coruña, where he played second-fiddle to Dani Aranzubia for two years.[4][5]

On 26 June 2017, ten years after leaving for Europe, the 35-year-old Lux returned to River Plate on a three-year contract.[6]

International career[]

As a starter (all six matches, no goals conceded) during the 2004 Summer Olympics, Lux was instrumental in the gold medal triumph of the Argentina national team, which netted 17.[7] During the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, however, he had a poor performance with the full side.[8]

Lux was left out of the squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, and Óscar Ustari was picked instead.

Personal life[]

Lux's older brother, Javier, was also a footballer. A midfielder, he played for several teams during his career.[2]

Career statistics[]

Club[]

As of 8 January 2021[9]
Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Argentina League Cup League Cup South America Total
2001–02 River Plate Primera División 3 0 0 0 3 0
2003–04 15 0 2 0 17 0
2004–05 6 0 4 0 10 0
2005–06 28 0 10 0 38 0
2006–07 2 0 2 0 4 0
Spain League Copa del Rey Supercopa de España Europe Total
2007–08 Mallorca La Liga 10 0 4 0 14 0
2008–09 14 0 3 0 17 0
2009–10 1 0 4 0 5 0
2010–11 4 0 4 0 8 0
2011–12 Deportivo Segunda División 4 0 4 0 8 0
2012–13 La Liga 4 0 2 0 6 0
2013–14 Segunda División 37 0 0 0 37 0
2014–15 La Liga 7 0 2 0 9 0
2015–16 La Liga 29 0 0 0 29 0
2016–17 La Liga 25 0 0 0 25 0
Argentina League Cup League Cup South America Total
2016–17 River Plate Primera División 0 0 3 0 3 0 6 0
2017–18 7 0 2 0 2 0 11 0
2018–19 5 0 1 0 2 0 8 0
2019–20 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
2020–21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total Argentina 65 0 6 0 24 0 98 0
Spain 135 0 23 0 0 0 158 0
Career total 200 0 29 0 24 0 256 0

Honours[]

River Plate

Deportivo

Argentina Youth

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "GERMÁN Darío LUX" (in Spanish). El Mundo. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b Quizás no sea el mejor momento para jugar (Perhaps this is not the best moment to play); ESPN Deportes, 22 January 2006 (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Moyá: "No aguantaba el dolor y era mejor parar" (Moyá: "I could not take the pain and it was better to stop"); Diario AS, 3 November 2008 (in Spanish)
  4. ^ Aranzubia quiere estar ante el Valladolid (Aranzubia wants to be against Valladolid); Marca, 3 May 2012 (in Spanish)
  5. ^ Germán Lux abraza al Deportivo (Germán Lux embraces Deportivo); Vavel, 3 July 2013 (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Germán Lux se marcha a River Plate (Germán Lux goes to River Plate); La Voz de Galicia, 26 June 2017 (in Spanish)
  7. ^ Germán Lux – FIFA competition record (archived)
  8. ^ Brazil claim Confederations Cup; UEFA, 29 June 2005
  9. ^ "G. Lux". Soccerway. Retrieved 5 October 2014.

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