Josemir Lujambio
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Josemir Lujambio Llanes (born 25 September 1971 in Durazno
Durazno
Durazno is the capital of Durazno in Uruguay. It is located at the intersection of Routes 5 and 41, in the south of the department, close to the borders with the departments of Flores to the southwest and Florida| to the southeast. It is only northeast of the city of Trinidad, capital of Flores...

) is a Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

an football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 striker
Striker
Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

. Who most recently played for Atlético Tucumán.

Club career

Lujambio has played for a total of thirteen different clubs in five different countries in his fifteen year career to date.
He started his career at Defensor
Defensor Sporting Club
-History:Founded on March 15, 1913 as Club Atlético Defensor, the name of the club was changed in 1989 to Defensor Sporting Club after a merger with Sporting Club Uruguay. The team plays in the Luis Franzini Stadium...

 in 1992. He moved to Bella Vista
Club Atlético Bella Vista
Club Atlético Bella Vista, usually known simply as Bella Vista is an Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo.-History:On October 4, 1920, Club Atlético Bella Vista was founded....

, in 1993, before moving to Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

 in 1994 to play for Maritimo
C.S. Marítimo de Venezuela
The Club Sport Marítimo, usually just Marítimo for short, is a football team from Caracas, Venezuela. The club was founded in 1959 by Portuguese immigrants living in Caracas, who based their new club on their favourite team from back home, CS Marítimo from the island of Madeira, who today compete...

. In 1995 he moved back to Uruguay to play for Sud América
Sud América
Institución Atlética Sud América, usually known as Sud América or IASA is a football club from Montevideo in Uruguay. They currently play in the Uruguayan 2nd Division.- History :...

 and that same year he moved to Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 to play for Huracán de Corrientes where he stayed until 1997, when he moved to Newell's Old Boys
Newell's Old Boys
Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario. The club was founded on November 3, 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell, one of the pioneers of Argentine football...

.

A move to Spain
Spain
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 followed in 1998 to play for Rayo Vallecano
Rayo Vallecano
Rayo Vallecano de Madrid, S.A.D., often abbreviated to Rayo, is a Spanish football team based in Madrid, in the neighbourhood of Vallecas...

, before moving back to Uruguay in 1999 to play for Peñarol
C.A. Peñarol
Club Atlético Peñarol also known as Carboneros, Aurinegros and familiarly as Manya, is an Uruguayan sports club based in the Peñarol barrio, Montevideo, best known for its professional football team. The team plays their home matches in Estadio Centenario, the largest stadium in the country, but...

. He then moved to Argentina again this time to play for Belgrano where he stayed until 2001, when he moved to Banfield
Club Atlético Banfield
Club Atlético Banfield is an Argentine sports club located in the city of Banfield, part of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires province. Founded on 21 January 1896 by residents of the town of British origin , its main activity is football...

. In 2002 he moved to Mexico
Mexico
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 where he played first for Querétaro FC
Querétaro FC
Querétaro Fútbol Club, is a Mexican professional football club based in the city of Querétaro, Mexico. Queretaro plays in the Primera División of Mexican football league system, after being promoted at the end of the 2008-2009 season from the Primera División A...

 and then in 2003 for and Club Celaya. In 2005 he once again returned to Argentina to play again for Banfield, and later in 2007 moved to Olimpo.

In 2008 he joined Atlético Tucumán of the Argentine 2nd division where he was part of the squad that won the 2008–09 championship.

International career

Lujambio made five appearances for Uruguay
Uruguay national football team
The Uruguayan national football team represents Uruguay in international association football and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uruguay. The current head coach is Óscar Tabárez...

 in 1997.

Honours

Atlético Tucumán
  • Primera B Nacional: 2008–09
    2008-09 in Argentine football
    2008–09 season of Argentine football was the 118th season of competitive football in Argentina.-Primera División:*Apertura champion: .**Top scorer: José Sand .*Clausura champion: ....


External links

Profile at Tenfield
Tenfield
Tenfield is a broadcasting corporation which holds the commercial rights to broadcast the Uruguayan football and basketball. It also owns Spanish-language soccer network GOL TV, which it purchased on April 2007....

 BDFA profile
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