Not many footballers have played for Lugo and Málaga. With a dropper, these interactions have increased in recent years, coinciding with the eight uninterrupted seasons of the Galician team in Second Division and the three of Malaga.
This Sunday Yanis Rahmani and Luis Muñoz will return to Anxo Carro, a place where they made a ‘good military’ that has helped them grow as footballers. The first of the two will reappear after having completed his penalty game. For his part, at Lugo will be Xavi Torres, who wore the blue and white jersey in the 2009-1 season0.
Let's run through these six players. We will start with Javi Muñoz. This is a goalkeeper who was forged in the Sevilla quarry, but who had to try his luck away from home because he had tough competition from Esteban and Antonio Notario. He was at Malaga for two seasons but did not get to play in the league with the first team. If he did it with Málaga B, which was in the Second Division. He went to Lugo in 2008-09 where he played 35 games and finished his career in Barcelona in Europe, in Third.
Ignasi Miquel. Defense of the Barcelona quarry forged in Arsenal. He spent two seasons at Lugo, although at the end of the second of them, 2017-18, Málaga paid an amount close to 350,000 euros for this center-back later transferred to Getafe for about three million euros.
Tete Morente. In last season's winter market, this player arrived after terminating with Lugo, but with two conditions; the first, that he did not play against Lugo (fear clause) and the second to receive a percentage of a future transfer. He obtained 125,000 euros of the 500,000 paid by Elche.
Luis Munoz. Málaga youth squad who went through the lower divisions of Real Madrid and made his debut in the First Division against Barcelona at the Camp Nou. The experience in Lugo suited him very well because he arrived very green and improved a lot. In that 2017-18 season he played 12 games and scored one goal.
Yanis Rahmani. Almería yielded to Lugo when the plenipotentiary Sheikh Turki Al-Sheikh arrived at his property. He played 27 games and left many of the quality details that he now uncovers at La Rosaleda. He did not play against Almeria because he was suspended. Nor could it have been because it is on loan.
Xavi Torres. After passing through the Villarreal quarry and the Barcelona subsidiary, he arrived at Malaga in the 2009-10 season with Juan Ramón Muñiz as coach. The arrival of Al Thani meant his departure, first on loan and then transferred to Getafe. Now he is a starter in Lugo.
The case of José Carlos Lazo
This is an interesting topic. In the winter market of the 2018-19 season, Málaga tried to sign him. Lazo was on loan from Getafe. Emilio Viqueira, then sports director, flatly refused to part with this footballer who today triumphs at Almería.