Albert Luque
Luque as an Ajax player in 2007
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| Full name | Albert Luque Martos | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 11 March 1978 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Terrassa, Spain | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Winger / Striker | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1985–1991 | Can Parellada | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–1996 | Barcelona | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Barcelona C | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Mallorca B | 62 | (25) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | Mallorca | 67 | (24) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | → Málaga (loan) | 23 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2005 | Deportivo La Coruña | 101 | (26) | ||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Newcastle | 21 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Ajax | 16 | (4) | ||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | → Málaga (loan) | 32 | (8) | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Málaga | 19 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 341 | (92) | |||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 1998–2000 | Spain U21 | 13 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | Spain U23 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2005 | Spain | 17 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2006 | Catalonia | 3 | (2) | ||||||||||||
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Albert Luque Martos (born 11 March 1978) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a left winger or striker.
His 14-year professional career was mainly associated with Mallorca and Deportivo, and he amassed La Liga totals of 248 games and 61 goals over the course of eleven seasons. He also had brief spells in England with Newcastle United and the Netherlands with Ajax.
A Spanish international in the first half of the 2000s, Luque represented the nation in one World Cup and one European Championship.
Born in Terrassa, Barcelona, Catalonia, Luque was a lifelong supporter of FC Barcelona, and started out in football on trial with them, but was released by the C-team when he was still not aged 20. He was then taken by RCD Mallorca and immediately sent to its B-side, but eventually broke into the main squad after a successful loan spell at Málaga CF.
In 2000–01, Luque scored nine goals for Mallorca, helping the Balearic Islands side qualify for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the club's history after finishing third. His extra time goal in the third qualifying round against HNK Hajduk Split carried the team into the first group stage.
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