Enrique López Fernández (born 24 June 1994), known as Cadete or Kadete, is a Spanish professional

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who plays as a

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for

Real Murcia Real Murcia Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., commonly known as Real Murcia (, "Royal Murcia"), is a Spanish football club based in Murcia, in the Región de Murcia. Founded in 1919, it currently plays in , playing home matches at Estadio Nueva Condo ...

Club career

Cadete was born in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, and made his senior debut with Alcobendas CF in the regional leagues. In 2012 he moved to

AD Alcorcón Agrupación Deportiva Alcorcón S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Alcorcón, in the autonomous community of Madrid. Founded in 1971, it currently plays in Primera Federación, holding home matches at the Municipal de Santo Domingo, ...

, and spent one full season in the youth setup before featuring regularly for the reserves in

Tercera División Tercera División () was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Until 1977, it was the third tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segund ...

. On 18 June 2014, Cadete joined fellow fourth division side

AD Unión Adarve Agrupación Deportiva Unión Adarve is a Spanish football team, from the Barrio del Pilar district of Fuencarral-El Pardo, in the city of Madrid, Community of Madrid. Founded in 1961, they play in . History Unión Adarve resulted from a merger ...

. On 4 August of the following year, he signed for

Atlético Astorga FC Atlético Astorga Fútbol Club is a Spanish football team based in Astorga in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded in 1944, it plays in the . Its stadium is '' Estadio La Eragudina'' with a capacity of 3,000 seats. History In A ...

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 ...

, but left the club six days later after allegedly having discrepancies with the club's presidency. Cadete subsequently returned to Adarve, but moved to

Rayo Vallecano B Rayo Vallecano de Madrid B is the reserve team of Rayo Vallecano, a Spanish football club based in the Madrid neighbourhood of Vallecas. Founded in 1973 and plays in , holding home matches at '' Ciudad Deportiva Rayo Vallecano'', with a 2,500-se ...

in July 2016. He left the latter in early September, and rejoined Adarve for a third stint, achieving promotion to the third division at the end of the season. On 29 May 2018, Cadete moved abroad for the first time in his career, joining

Ascenso MX Ascenso MX, also known as Ascenso BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons, was a professional association football league in Mexico and the second level of the Mexican football league system. Formerly known as Primera División A de México (1994–2009 ...

side

Atlético San Luis Club Atlético de San Luis is a Mexican professional football club based in San Luis Potosí. It competes in the Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Founded in 2013, replacing the defunct club of the city ( San Luis FC) after its re ...

. He made his professional debut on 21 July, starting in a 0–0 home draw against

Mineros de Zacatecas Club Deportivo Mineros de Zacatecas, simply known as Mineros de Zacatecas, is a Mexican professional football club based in Zacatecas, that competes in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level division of Mexican football. Founded in 2014, after ...

. Cadete scored his first professional goal on 18 August 2018, netting the opener in a 4–0 away routing of Celaya FC. On 7 April 2021,

FC Astana Astana Football Club () is a professional Association football, football club based in Astana. They play in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest level of Football in Kazakhstan, Kazakh football. The club's home ground is the 30,000-seat As ...

announced the signing of Cadete. On 22 July 2022

Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory ...

announced that they had signed Lopez for the upcoming season. On 13 September 2023,

Dinamo Tbilisi Dinamo Tbilisi is a sports club from Tbilisi, Georgia (country), Georgia. It was founded in 1925. Among its highest honors, is the European trophy earned by its Association football, football team which won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating ...

announced the signing of Cadete on a contract until the end of 2024. On 20 July 2024, Cadete returned to Spain and signed with

Career statistics

Club

Honours

(2): Apertura 2018, Clausura 2019

References

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