Jordan Perez

Jordan López Pérez (born 13 November 1986) is a Gibraltarian volleyball player and footballer who plays for Mons Calpe in the Gibraltar National League, and represented the Gibraltar national team in UEFA competition from 2013 until 2017, as a goalkeeper.

Jordan Perez
Perez with Gibraltar in 2014
Personal information
Full name Jordan López Pérez
Date of birth (1986-11-13) 13 November 1986
Place of birth Gibraltar
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Mons Calpe
Number 30
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2007 College Europa
2007–2008 Lynx
2008–2013 Manchester 62
2013–2014 Lincoln Red Imps 13 (0)
2014–2015 Lions Gibraltar 15 (0)
2015–2017 St Joseph's 32 (0)
2017–2018 FC Olympique 13 16 (0)
2019 Gibraltar United 0 (0)
2019 Boca Gibraltar 7 (0)
2020– Mons Calpe 1 (0)
National team‡
2013–2016 Gibraltar 17 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 November 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 5 January 2017

Club career

Perez started his career with College Europa and joined Manchester 62 in 2008, after a short stint at Lynx. In 2013, he moved to fellow league team Lincoln Red Imps, being champion of the League, the Cup and the League Cup.

In October 2014 Perez rescinded with Lincoln, due to the lack of first team action,[1] and joined Lions Gibraltar shortly after.

In April 2015, Perez joined League 2 Side Wycombe Wanderers on a weeks training, despite interest from Ipswich Town.

He signed for St Joseph's F.C. in summer 2015 after a season at Lions. Shortly after the arrival of former Lincoln boss Raul Procopio at St Joseph's, Perez left the club, citing a growing loss of interest in football and the need to take a break from the sport. He will re-assess his options in the summer.[2]

In the summer of 2017 Jordan committed his future to the ambitious project at F.C. Olympique 13 teaming up with Scottish manager Lewis Fraser, however, he left the club at the end of the season. In August 2019, he returned to football when he signed for Gibraltar United, providing competition for young keeper Christian Lopez after the departure of Kyle Goldwin. 9 days later, Gibraltar United were expelled from the league for failing to repay debts, so Perez instead joined Boca Gibraltar, making his debut the next day against Manchester 62.[3] After leaving Boca and serving as a goalkeeping coach for the Gibraltar national under-21 football team, he returned to football again in July 2020 when he signed for Mons Calpe.

International career

Perez made his international debut with Gibraltar on 19 November 2013 in a 0-0 home draw with Slovakia.[4] This was Gibraltar's first game since being admitted to UEFA.[5] On 13 June 2015, Perez made arguably the save of his career by saving a penalty from German captain Bastian Schweinsteiger in a match against Germany in a European Qualifier to prevent Gibraltar from going 1–0 down.[6] Despite Germany going on to win the game 7–0, Perez was impressed with his team's performance and described his penalty save as 'surreal'.[7]

Personal life

Perez is a fireman for the City Fire Brigade Gibraltar.[8] He has also represented Gibraltar in indoor volleyball at the 2007 Island Games[9] and beach volleyball at the 2019 Island Games.

Honours
Lincoln Red Imps

References
  1. Jordan Perez leaves Lincoln; Gib Football Talk, 24 October 2014
  2. https://gibraltarfootballtalk.com/perez-takes-a-break-from-football/
  3. Manchester 62 vs Boca Gibraltar Archived 2019-08-13 at the Wayback Machine Gibraltar FA. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  4. "Rock-solid Gibraltar hold Slovakia to memorable draw on debut". Sports Yahoo. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  5. "Gibraltar hold Slovakia in maiden international". www.uefa.com. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  6. http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=2016/matches/round=2000446/match=2013955/index.html
  7. http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/video/videoid=2257635.html?autoplay=true
  8. "Gibraltar v Poland: Starting XIs by professional occupation". The Independent. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  9. Gibraltar - Volleyball Entrants 2007 Island Games. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
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