Javi Navarro
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Francisco Javier Vicente Navarro | ||
| Date of birth | 6 February 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Valencia, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Valencia | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–2000 | Valencia B | 51 | (0) |
| 1994–2000 | Valencia | 41 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | → Logroñés (loan) | 15 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | Elche | 33 | (0) |
| 2001–2009 | Sevilla | 168 | (3) |
| Total | 308 | (3) | |
| National team | |||
| 1990 | Spain U16 | 5 | (0) |
| 1990 | Spain U17 | 7 | (0) |
| 1990–1991 | Spain U18 | 9 | (0) |
| 1993 | Spain U20 | 3 | (0) |
| 1996 | Spain U21 | 2 | (0) |
| 1996 | Spain U23 | 3 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Spain | 4 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Francisco Javier "Javi" Vicente Navarro (born 6 February 1974) is a Spanish retired footballer.
During his professional career the toughcentral defender represented mainly Valencia and Sevilla, achieving great team success with the latter – five major titles, including two UEFA Cups.
Over the course of 15 seasons, greatly hindered by injuries, he amassed La Liga totals of 224 games and three goals.
A product of hometown Valencia CF's youth system, Valencia-born Navarro made his first-team debuts during the 1993–94 season (four La Liga games) and, after a loan stint with CD Logroñés, also in the top flight, returned for the 1995–96 campaign, playing in 19 matches as Valencia finished runner-up. He suffered a serious knee injury the following year, being out of action for almost three years and moving to neighbours Elche CF in 2000–01 upon his recovery.
After that single season in the second division, Navarro signed in July 2001 with Sevilla FC, where he proceeded to form a dreaded centre-back partnership with Pablo Alfaro for the next five years. On 20 March 2005 he brutally impacted with his elbow on RCD Mallorca's Juan Arango, leaving the Venezuelan unconscious on the pitch.
After being one of Sevilla's most important players throughout the team's conquests from 2005 to 2007 (two UEFA Cups, one UEFA Super Cup and one Spanish Cup), Navarro was sidelined for two years with another severe knee injury, eventually retiring from the game at the end of the 2008–09 season, aged 35.
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