Full name Ildefons Lima Sola Years Team Weight 88 kg Number 6 Height 1.91 m | Playing position Role Footballer Name Ildefons Lima | |
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Date of birth (1979-12-10) 10 December 1979 (age 36) Current teams FC Santa Coloma (#6 / Defender), Andorra national football team (Defender) | ||
Fiebre Maldini: Ildefons Lima, orgullo de Andorra | Movistar+
Ildefons Lima Solà (born 10 December 1979) is an Andorran professional footballer who plays for FC Santa Coloma as a central defender.
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- Club career
- International career
- International goals
- Personal life
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Andorra captain ildefons lima has an incredible collection of unwashed football shirts sportbible
Club career
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Lima's first years as a senior were spent with FC Andorra, playing one season each in the Spanish third and fourth divisions. Subsequently, he played in both levels with RCD Espanyol B and UE Sant Andreu, splitting the following campaign abroad between Ionikos F.C. of Greece and C.F. Pachuca in Mexico.
In the 2002 summer, Lima returned to Spain, playing one-and-a-half seasons with UD Las Palmas in the second tier, moving in January 2004 to another club in the category, Polideportivo Ejido, and spending the following campaign with Rayo Vallecano in the third level.
Lima then played four years with U.S. Triestina Calcio in Italy. With the Trieste side, he was occasionally used as a forward at the request of elusive chairman Flaviano Tonellotto. In 2009, aged nearly 30, he switched countries again, signing for AC Bellinzona in the Swiss Super League.
After two seasons in Switzerland and one back at Triestina, Lima signed again for FC Andorra, now of the Primera Catalana, instead of several offers to play in the principality's Primera Divisió. On 12 June 2014, he joined the latter league's champion FC Santa Coloma; he scored for them on 8 July in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League away to FC Banants, as they advanced on away goals.
International career
Lima made his debut for Andorra aged 17, in the country's second ever game on 22 June 1997, scoring in a 1–4 friendly defeat in Estonia. He went on to lead the national team's scoring charts, and also amassed more than 100 caps.
In June 2009, near the end of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, Lima scored his first competitive goal for over eight years and six years overall, netting the last goal of a 1–5 away defeat against Belarus. On 9 September 2014, in Andorra's first match of the UEFA Euro 2016 qualification phase, he netted a sixth-minute penalty to give the side a 1–0 lead over Wales, but in an eventual 1–2 home loss.
After Óscar Sonejee, Lima was the second Andorran to reach a century of caps, playing his 100th game on 1 June 2016, a 0–2 friendly loss to Estonia in Tallinn. On 22 February 2017 he opened a 2–0 away win over San Marino in another exhibition game, ending a run of 86 defeats.
International goals
As of 22 February 2017 (scores and results list. Andorra's goal tally first)Personal life
Lima's older brother, Toni, was also a footballer and a defender. He too spent most of his career in the lower leagues of Spain, and the pair shared teams at Ionikos.