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Luna (footballer)

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Playing position
  
Striker

Height
  
1.77 m

Years
  
Team

Weight
  
68 kg


Name
  
Francisco Blanco

1991–1992
  
Puerto Real

Career start
  
2009

Role
  
Footballer

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Full name
  
Francisco Javier Aguilera Blanco

Date of birth
  
(1971-09-23) 23 September 1971 (age 44)

Place of birth
  
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

Current team
  
SD Eibar (#19 / Defender)

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Francisco Javier Aguilera Blanco (born 23 September 1971), commonly known as Luna and sometimes Paco Luna, is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a striker.

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After having spent the early part of his career in his country, his La Liga totals consisting of 60 matches and 17 goals, he appeared for two clubs in Scotland in his late 20s and early 30s.

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Football career

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Born in Jerez de la Frontera, Province of Cádiz, Luna made his professional debuts with UD Almería – also in Andalusia – in Segunda División, after spending his first three years as a senior in amateur football.

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In January 1996, his solid performances attracted the attention of La Liga club Albacete Balompié. He scored ten goals in the second part of the season, but the Castile-La Mancha side was relegated after a five-year stay.

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Luna signed with Sporting de Gijón also in the top division, in another winter transfer move, but his stay in Asturias would not be very successful individually, also being loaned twice, first with Hércules CF. His second loan move was with Scottish Premier League club Dundee in 2000: he impressed in his beginnings in Scotland by netting three times in five starts, but cited family reasons for leaving the country.

After one year in Mexico with C.F. Monterrey, where he again linked up with his "mentor" Benito Floro, Luna made a surprise return to Scotland with Hibernian. He had a successful first season with Hibs, scoring twice in a UEFA Cup first-round tie against AEK Athens FC (3–2 home win, but 3–4 aggregate exit).

Luna had a less successful second year, however, and was allowed to come back to Spain in January 2003, returning to former side Almería where he produced three-and-a-half respectable seasons in the second level. In the 2006 summer he signed for another team in his native area, lowly Écija Balompié.

References

Luna (footballer) Wikipedia