Full name Ignacio Lores Varela 2007–2009 Defensor Sporting Weight 73 kg Number 11 Height 1.82 m | Playing position Role Footballer Name Ignacio Varela Career start 2009 | |
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Date of birth (1991-04-26) 26 April 1991 (age 24) Current team A.C. Pisa 1909 (Midfielder) | ||
Place of birth Montevideo, Uruguay | ||
Ignacio Lores Varela (born 26 April 1991) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a Winger for Ascoli. He is a former Uruguay U20 international. Lores also holds Spanish passport.
Contents
- Career
- Palermo
- Loans to Botev Vratsa and CSKA Sofia
- Return to Palermo and Serie B loans
- International career
- References
Career
Lores started his football career with Defensor Sporting, making his debut in the Uruguayan Primera División during the 2009–10 season. He made a total of 10 league appearances with the Montevideo-based club.
Palermo
On 9 July 2011, Lores signed with Italian side Palermo on a five-year deal for a fee of €2.8 million. He was given the number 26 jersey. Lores made his Serie A debut in a 3–1 home win against Bologna on 5 November, coming on as a first-half substitute, replacing the injured Abel Hernández early in the first half. Ignacio started his first Serie A match for Palermo in a 0–0 draw against Parma at the Stadio Ennio Tardini on 4 December.
Loans to Botev Vratsa and CSKA Sofia
On 29 August 2012 he moved on loan to Bulgarian A PFG team Botev Vratsa. After 8 appearances, On 1 February 2013, Lores was loaned out to another A PFG club CSKA Sofia for one-and-a-half year. On 31 March, in a 3–0 home victory over Minyor Pernik, Lores assisted Martin Kamburov for the first goal in a game and later netted his first goal, scoring CSKA's second. He finished the season with 20 appearances and one goal in the league, scored in the 19th day, and two appearances in the domestic cup.
Return to Palermo and Serie B loans
He returned to Palermo for the 2013–14 season, and played his first game of the season on 11 August 2013 on the occasion of the match in the second round of the Italian Cup won 2-1 on Cremonese.
However, in the January 2014 he moved on loan to Serie B side Bari, making eight appearances in total. On 12 September 2014, he was sent out on loan to another Serie B club, Vicenza, for the full 2014–15 season.
He then signed for Pisa, winning a promotion to Serie B from Lega Pro under coach Gennaro Ivan Gattuso. He left Pisa after two seasons to join another Serie B club, Ascoli, in July 2017.
International career
He has been capped by the Uruguay national under-20 football team at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
In May 2011 he won the Suwon Cup with Uruguay's National Under-20, playing all three games and scoring one goal - the first in the National - in the second game against Nigeria ended 2-2