Juanmi Jiménez

Juanmi, 2012

Juan Miguel Jiménez López (mostly Juanmi or Juanmi Jiménez, born May 20, 1993 Coín, Andalusia ) is a Spanish football player at the position of a striker and midfielder. Since 2010 he has División for Málaga CF in La Liga, the top division in Spanish football, in use.

Club career

Career start in the home

His career began born in 1993 in the town of Coín in Andalusia Juanmi the newcomers FC Málaga in Málaga little more than 30 kilometers away, having other sources say, was already at the local club Atlético Coín in use. After a few years in youth he made at the age of 15 years made ​​it into the B- team of the club, which had already División at this time their gaming operations in the fourth division Tercera. Although he was also used in parallel to the club's young, he was 13 December 2009 in a 3-1 away win over the CD Vera de Almería, as he was substituted after 71 minutes of play for Samuel. On his second fourth division use on 20 December 2009, a 1-1 home draw against Arenas de Cultura y Deporte Armilla he was already over the full duration in use. Overall, he brought it this season on 13 scoreless Cup inserts for Atlético malagueño, the B- team of FC Malaga. After a decent course of the season he landed with the team on the sixth place in Group 9 At the same time he brought it this season in the offspring of FC Malaga to eight games in which he scored 14 goals equal. Even during the summer break before the season 2010/ 11 was Juanmi, who attracted attention by its performance in the B team, but especially in the club's youth, brought in as Fixzugang in the professional cadres of the southern Spanish clubs.

Professional debut for FC Málaga

Already more than half a year before came Juanmi on 13 January 2010 on his competitive debut for the first team. He was employed in the Copa del Rey 2009/10 in the second round encounter against Getafe in the second half and scored in the clear 1:5 defeat even the only goal of his team. With this commitment, he made ​​himself one the youngest professional debutant of the Society and on the other the youngest professional scorer in the club's history the Südspanier. Only a few days later gave Juanmi 17 January 2010 his debut in the Primera División, when he was again a substitute in a 1-0 home victory over Getafe in the 81st minute for the more experienced defensive player Juanito. Four other missions as a substitute followed the end of the 2009/10 season, in which it barely managed the team to 17th place in the table after it had been involved for a long time in the relegation battle. At the season opener 2010/11 against FC Valencia on 28 August 2010, the 16- year-old came though again only a brief appearance for the first team, advised by his achievements, however, and was first used as early as the following round against Real Zaragoza from the beginning. Here, in the seventh and 29th minutes he succeeded each a goal, but the team was already briefly after 35 minutes completed 5-0 lead in order to win but only 5-3 at the end.

For Juanmi this was another place in the history of the club, since he was the youngest player so that División for Málaga CF in La Liga came to scoring. In addition, he is also the youngest player in the league, the two get hit in an encounter. After he graduated after that some professional league games, it was time to do something peaceful about the prolific young striker, who has been used in the meantime, especially in the B team. Although he briefly came in between to stakes for the pros, he actually came only from the 24th round to regular league appearances for the professionals for whom he so far ( as at 10 April 2011) in 14 league games scoring four goals. For a mission over the full duration he never brought it to the professionals, however. In addition, he was also at the high 0:7 defeat against Real Madrid in March 2011 in use. Parallel División in his time in La Liga, the young Spaniard also completed numerous other games for the B team in the Viertklassigkeit.

In the second half of the 2012/13 season he was loaned out to Racing Santander.

National team career

After he had been active with the Spanish U-16 selection at first, he was appointed for the first time in the U-17 squad in his home country in 2009. With the team, he participated in various international games or mini-tournaments and brought it up to its exit from the U-17 team in 2010 to six graduated caps and five goals scored. Soon followed in 2011 a nomination of the U-18 Selection of Spain, with which he, among others, at the Torneo del Atlántico in 2011, a total of 37 youth edition of this tournament, participated. To date ( as at 10 April 2011) he was so in two parts of the U-18 team to use and also scored many goals. Furthermore, he was called up for two matches of the Spanish U-19 national team in April 2011 for the first time. Important applications in tournaments, which were paid by UEFA or FIFA, however, he had hitherto never before.