Ibán Espadas

Ibán Espadas
Personal information
Full name	Ibán Espadas Zubizarreta
Date of birth	4 August 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth	Tolosa, Spain
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Athletic Bilbao
Senior career*
Years	Team
1996–1998	Bilbao Athletic
1999–2000	Cartagena
2000–2001	Recreativo
2000–2001	→ Cultural Leonesa (loan)
2001–2003	Zaragoza B
2002–2005	Zaragoza
2003–2004	→ Cádiz (loan)
2004–2005	→ Almería (loan)
2005–2006	Ciudad Murcia
2006–2009	Orihuela
2009–2011	Pontevedra
2011–2012	Orihuela
2012–2014	Arroyo
Total
International career
1994–1995	Spain U16
1995	Spain U17
1996–1997	Spain U18
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ibán Espadas Zubizarreta (born 4 August 1978) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward.

Across the two major levels of Spanish football, he appeared in 104 games and scored 14 goals over nine seasons. In La Liga, he represented Zaragoza.

Club career

Espadas was born in Tolosa, Gipuzkoa. During his career, spent mainly in the second and third divisions, he also made seven La Liga appearances with Real Zaragoza, all in the 2003–04 season – he had previously contributed 18 and four goals to the Aragonese club's previous top-flight promotion.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c Ibán Espadas at AS.com (in Spanish)
^ Roy, J. (25 May 2015). "Iban Espadas: "Se valoró muy poco a Paco Flores por su ascenso, su marcha fue un schock para mí"" [Iban Espadas: "Paco Flores was so underappreciated for his promotion, his departure was a shock to me"]. El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 December 2017.
^ Valimaña, Antonio (13 March 2018). "Iban Espadas: "Me hubiese encantado coincidir con Salvi y Álvaro García en el Cádiz CF"" [Iban Espadas: "I would have loved to share teams with Salvi and Álvaro García at Cádiz CF"] (in Spanish). La Voz Digital. Retrieved 14 December 2021.