Alejandro 'Álex' Cruz Hernández (born 31 October 1986) is a Spanish

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who plays as a

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Club career

Born in

El Puerto de Santa María El Puerto de Santa María (), locally known as El Puerto and historically in English as Port Saint Mary, is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain located on the banks of the Guadalete River in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. , the c ...

Province of Cádiz Cádiz is a Provinces of Spain, province of southern Spain, in the southwestern part of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is the southernmost part of mainland Spain, as well as the southernmost part of ...

, Cruz finished his youth career with local Cádiz CF, and made his senior debut with the reserves in the 2005–06 season. He first arrived in the

Segunda División B Segunda División B (English: second division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish ...

in summer 2007, joining Racing Club Portuense.El ex Portuense Álex Cruz ficha por el Nàstic para jugar en Segunda (Ex-Portuense Álex Cruz signs with Nàstic to play in ''Segunda'')

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, 17 August 2008 (in Spanish) In August 2008, Cruz signed with

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spa ...

club Gimnàstic de Tarragona. He played his first professional match on 6 December, featuring the full 90 minutes in a 1–1 away draw against

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. In January of the following year, he was loaned to CD Atlético Baleares in division three. Cruz remained in the third tier the following years, with CF Atlético Ciudad, Lucena CF,

Real Jaén Real Jaén Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Jaén, Spain, Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1929 it plays in , holding home matches at ''Nuevo Estadio de La Vict ...

and

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. On 9 July 2013 he returned to Jaén, recently promoted to the second league.El Jaén ficha a Jozabed, Curto y Alex Cruz (Jáen sign Jozabed, Curto and Alex Cruz)
Marca, 9 July 2013 (in Spanish)

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