Nacho Cases
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 Cases warming up for Sporting Gijón in 2014 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ignacio Cases Mora | ||
| Date of birth | 22 December 1987 | ||
| Place of birth | Gijón, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Central midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–1994 | Codema | ||
| 1994–2006 | Sporting Gijón | ||
| 2004–2005 | → Revillagigedo (loan) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2011 | Sporting Gijón B | 134 | (21) |
| 2011–2017 | Sporting Gijón | 177 | (9) |
| 2017–2021 | AEK Larnaca | 56 | (3) |
| 2020 | → Volos (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2021 | Sūduva | 25 | (0) |
| 2022 | Anagennisi | 13 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | Ermis | 26 | (2) |
| Total | 437 | (35) | |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Ignacio 'Nacho' Cases Mora (born 22 December 1987) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
He spent most of his career with Sporting de Gijón, appearing in 183 competitive games over the course of seven seasons (four in La Liga).[1]
Sporting Gijón
Born in Gijón, Asturias, Cases was a product of Sporting de Gijón's prolific youth academy, Mareo. He made it to the B team during the 2006–07 season, with them playing in the Tercera División; although he proved instrumental in helping to achieve promotion one year later, he struggled for a place in the starting line-ups the following years.[2]
It was not until the 2010–11 campaign, at the age of 23 years – and acting as captain with the reserves – that Cases was finally given his chance to make his first-team debut, starting in a 1–1 away draw against Racing de Santander on 9 January 2011.[3] On 2 April, he assisted Miguel de las Cuevas in the 79th minute of a 1–0 win over Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, thus ending José Mourinho's nine-year unbeaten home league record.[4] He finished his first season as a professional with 18 La Liga appearances, in an escape from relegation,[5] having scored his first goal in the top flight on 15 January 2011 in the 2–0 home defeat of Hércules CF.[6]
AEK Larnaca
On 22 June 2017, 29-year-old Cases announced he was leaving Sporting Gijón and bring to an end a 23-year association with the same club.[7] Shortly after, he joined a host of compatriots at Cyprus' AEK Larnaca FC.[8]