Lorenzo Juarros García

Lorenzo Juarros García (born 7 October 1966), known as Loren, is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as either a central defender or striker.

For the Spanish footballer born in 1970, see Lorenzo Morón. For the Spanish footballer born in 1993, see Loren Morón.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Juarros and the second or maternal family name is García.

Loren
Loren in 2014
Personal information
Full name Lorenzo Juarros García
Date of birth (1966-10-07) 7 October 1966
Place of birth Mambrillas de Lara, Spain
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Centre back / Striker
Youth career
Tolosa
Real Sociedad
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1986 San Sebastián 32 (13)
1984–1989 Real Sociedad 98 (24)
1989–1991 Athletic Bilbao 62 (9)
1991–1993 Real Burgos 65 (11)
1993–2002 Real Sociedad 256 (9)
Total 513 (66)
National team
1986–1990 Spain U21 9 (6)
1987–1988 Spain U23 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

In a professional career which spanned nearly twenty years, he represented mainly Real Sociedad, amassing official totals of 411 games and 41 goals in 14 seasons.

Loren also played for Athletic Bilbao, being the most expensive Spanish player at the time of his transfer.[1]

Club career

Real Sociedad

Born in Mambrillas de Lara, Province of Burgos, Loren joined Real Sociedad from amateurs Tolosa CF also in the Basque Country. On 9 September 1984, one month shy of his 18th birthday, he made his first-team – and La Liga – debut, in a 0–1 home loss against CD Málaga,[2] as a central defender, the position in which he started his career;[3] this was due to a strike by the professional footballers in the country, with most teams having to resort to fielding youth players.[4]

After only four league games in his first two seasons combined, Loren became an undisputed starter for the side from Gipuzkoa, helping them to the 1987 Copa del Rey – he did not play in the final against Atlético Madrid due to injury, however. In the 1987–88 campaign, by now reinvented as a striker by Welsh manager John Toshack, he scored a career-best 11 games in 36 games as the club finished second to Real Madrid.

Athletic and Burgos

In the summer of 1989, Loren signed for Real Sociedad's local rivals Athletic Bilbao, who paid 300 million pesetas for his services, a record for a national player.[5] He later confessed that, had Athletic not paid the full extent of his clause, he would not have made the move,[6] which would be the first of several controversial transfer negotiations between the two clubs.

Loren made his official debut for the Lions on 2 September 1989, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 home win against his former team. He underperformed overall during his two-season stint, only netting four times in his second year.

Loren then signed for Real Burgos CF in his native region, who rose from the ashes of Burgos CF. He scored seven goals in his first season to help to a best ever ninth-place finish in the top level, being relegated in the following campaign.

Return to Real Sociedad

In the 1993 off-season, 26-year-old Loren returned to Real Sociedad. On 13 August he scored the first goal in the new Anoeta Stadium, in a friendly with Real Madrid.[7][8] Again under Toshack he returned to the stopper position, often partnering another youth graduate, José Antonio Pikabea, during his second spell, and never appearing in less than 27 league games in the following seven seasons.

After only eight games in 2001–02, Loren retired from playing football at almost 36, having appeared in 482 top division games over the course of 18 seasons (54 goals). He remained with Real Sociedad in the following years as the club's director of football, a position he took up in 2009,[9][10][11][12] until March 2018.[13][14]

References
  1. "Athletic Club-Real Sociedad: jugadores en los dos bandos" [Athletic Club-Real Sociedad: players on both sides]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 9 May 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  2. Sáez, F. (10 September 1984). "0–1: Mandó la Real pero marcó el Málaga" [0–1: Real in charge but Málaga scored]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  3. Casado, Edu (5 August 2009). "Qué fue de… Loren" [Whatever happened to… Loren]. 20 minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  4. "A strike by Spanish soccer players forced the league to play its second round Sunday with junior and amateur players". United Press International. 9 September 1984. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  5. Mallo, Juan Manuel (1 December 2010). "El Athletic ha pagado casi 15 millones a la Real en 21 años" [Athletic have paid almost 15 million to Real in 21 years]. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  6. "Loren no quería venir al Athletic" [Loren did not want to go to Athletic] (in Spanish). El Athletic Club. 22 April 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  7. "Anoeta". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 November 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  8. Rodríguez Millán, Juan (13 August 2008). "Partidos Inolvidables: Real Sociedad 2 – Real Madrid 2 (93–94)" [Unforgettable Matches: Real Sociedad 2 – Real Madrid 2 (93–94)] (in Spanish). Corazón Txuri Urdin. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  9. "La Real Sociedad nombra a Lorenzo Juarros como nuevo director deportivo" [Real Sociedad name Lorenzo Juarros as new sports director]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 28 January 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  10. F. Mendiola, Jorge (24 December 2010). "La planificación de la plantilla fue ambiciosa para que no hubiera urgencias en enero" [We thought big with the squad so that we would not have any urgencies in January]. El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  11. Isasa, Xabier (1 October 2011). "Loren: "Para Urrutia el derbi era el partido más importante"" [Loren: "To Urrutia the derby was the most important game"]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  12. Ramajo, Roberto (23 May 2017). "Loren renovará como director deportivo hasta 2019" [Loren to renew as sporting director until 2019]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  13. "Loren's contract with Real terminated by mutual consent". Real Sociedad. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  14. Badallo, Óscar; Whelan, Padraig (19 March 2018). "Real Sociedad officially part ways with coach Eusebio". Marca. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
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