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Ildefons Lima Solà (born 10 December 1979) is a professional footballer who plays as a central defender for FC Andorra and the Andorra national team.

Ildefons Lima

Lima with Andorra in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Ildefons Lima Solà
Date of birth	(1979-12-10) 10 December 1979 (age 42)
Place of birth	Barcelona, Spain
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Club information
Current team	FC Andorra
Youth career
	Damm
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997–1999	FC Andorra	64	(2)
1999–2000	Espanyol B	1	(0)
2000–2001	Sant Andreu	25	(2)
2001–2002	Ionikos	0	(0)
2002	Pachuca	3	(1)
2002–2003	Las Palmas	25	(2)
2004	Poli Ejido	2	(0)
2004–2005	Rayo Vallecano	34	(1)
2005–2009	Triestina	79	(1)
2009–2011	Bellinzona	43	(4)
2011–2012	Triestina	17	(2)
2012–2014	FC Andorra	45	(15)
2014–2018	Santa Coloma	84	(18)
2018–2022	Inter d'Escaldes	53	(5)
2022–	FC Andorra	0	(0)
National team‡
1997–	Andorra	134	(11)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 May 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 June 2022

He has played club football in Spain, Greece, Mexico, Italy, Switzerland and Andorra. At international level, Lima holds the records for most appearances and most goals for Andorra as of 2022.[1]

Early life

Lima was born in Barcelona, Catalonia[2] to an Andalusian father and a Catalan mother.[3] His family moved to Andorra when he was two months old.[4]

Club career

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 at 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.[5]

In the summer of 2002, Lima returned to Spain, playing one and a half seasons with UD Las Palmas in the second tier and moving in January 2004 to another club in that league, Polideportivo Ejido. He spent the following campaign with Rayo Vallecano in division three.

Lima then played four years with U.S. Triestina Calcio in Italy.[6] With the Trieste side, he was occasionally used as a forward at the request of elusive chairman Flaviano Tonellotto.[7] In 2009, aged nearly 30, he switched countries again, signing for AC Bellinzona of the Swiss Super League.

After two seasons in Switzerland and one back at Triestina,[8] Lima signed again for FC Andorra, now of the Primera Catalana, instead of several offers to play in the principality's Primera Divisió.[9] On 12 June 2014, he joined the latter league's champion FC Santa Coloma.[10] 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.[11]

International career

Lima made his debut for Andorra aged 17, in the country's second ever game on 22 June 1997, scoring in a 4–1 friendly defeat in Estonia. He went on to lead the national team's scoring charts, and also amassed more than 130 caps.[12][13]

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.[14]

After Óscar Sonejee, Lima was the second Andorran to reach a century of caps, playing his 100th game on 1 June 2016, a 2–0 friendly loss to Estonia in Tallinn.[15] On 22 February 2017 he opened a 2–0 away win over San Marino in another exhibition game, ending an 86-game winless run.[16]

Lima surpassed Sonejee's national record of 106 internationals on 16 August 2017, when he played a friendly against Qatar in Burton-on-Trent.[17] In 2020, the Andorran Football Federation removed him from the team – against the wishes of coach Koldo Álvarez – when the player spoke out against football resuming in the principality without COVID-19 testing. FIFPro, the world's trade union for footballers, called for FIFA to intervene in his favour.[18]

On 3 June 2021, Lima became just the third European footballer (after Billy Meredith and Jari Litmanen) to be capped in four different decades when playing in a friendly defeat to Republic of Ireland.[19]

Personal life

Despite debuting for the Andorran national team when he was 17, Lima only became a citizen when he turned 20 years of residence in the country.[4]^[vague] His older brother, Antoni, 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.[20][21]

Career statistics

International

As of match played 10 June 2022[22][12]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Andorra
	1997	2	1
	1998	7	0
	1999	8	0
	2000	8	1
	2001	3	1
	2002	4	1
	2003	2	0
	2004	5	0
	2005	5	0
	2006	0	0
	2007	6	0
	2008	6	1
	2009	5	2
	2010	4	0
	2011	6	0
	2012	7	0
	2013	6	0
	2014	6	2
	2015	7	1
	2016	6	0
	2017	8	1
	2018	8	0
	2019	9	0
	2020	0	0
	2021	5	0
	2022	1	0
Total		134	11

Scores and results list Andorra's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lima goal.[22][12]

List of international goals scored by Ildefons Lima

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	22 June 1997	Linnastaadion, Kuressaare, Estonia	Estonia	1–3	1–4	Friendly
2	2 September 2000	Communal d'Aixovall, Andorra La Vella, Andorra	Cyprus	2–1	2–3	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
3	25 April 2001	Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Republic of Ireland	Republic of Ireland	1–0	1–3
4	27 March 2002	Ta' Qali Stadium, Ta' Qali, Malta	Malta	1–0	1–1	Friendly
5	4 June 2008	Comunal d'Aixovall, Andorra la Vella, Andorra	Azerbaijan	1–1	1–2
6	11 February 2009	S. Darius and S. Girėnas, Kaunas, Lithuania	Lithuania	1–2	1–3
7	6 June 2009	Neman Stadium, Grodno, Belarus	Belarus	1–5	1–5	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
8	9 September 2014	Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella, Andorra	Wales	1–0	1–2	UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying
9	13 October 2014		Israel	1–1	1–4
10	11 October 2015		Belgium	1–2	1–4
11	22 February 2017	Olimpico di Serravalle, Serravalle, San Marino	San Marino	1–0	2–0	Friendly

See also

• List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps

References

External links

• Ildefons Lima at BDFutbol
• Triestina official profile (in Italian)
• Ildefons Lima at National-Football-Teams.com
• Ildefons Lima – FIFA competition record (archived)
• National team data
• Ildefons Lima at Soccerway
• Official website (in Catalan)

На других языках

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[de] Ildefons Lima

Ildefons Lima Solà (* 10. Dezember 1979 in Barcelona, auch Ildefonso geschrieben) ist ein andorranischer Fußballspieler. Er spielt auf der Position des Verteidigers und ist Mannschaftskapitän der andorranischen Nationalmannschaft. Mit elf Treffern ist Lima Rekordtorschütze seines Landes und außerdem einer der wenigen Profifußballer aus Andorra. Er ist der Spieler mit der längsten internationalen Karriere weltweit, über 23 Jahre spielt er jetzt schon im internationalen Bereich.[1]

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- [en] Ildefons Lima

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[es] Ildefons Lima

Ildefons Lima Solá (Barcelona, España, 10 de diciembre de 1979), más conocido como Ildefons Lima, es un futbolista andorrano que juega de defensa en el Inter Club d'Escaldes.[1]

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[fr] Ildefons Lima

Ildefons Lima Solà, dit Ildefons Lima, né le 10 décembre 1979 à Barcelone en Espagne, est un footballeur international andorran, évoluant au poste de défenseur. Il est le joueur le plus capé ainsi que le meilleur buteur de l'histoire d'Andorre.

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[it] Ildefons Lima

Ildefons Lima Solà (Barcellona, 10 dicembre 1979) è un calciatore spagnolo naturalizzato andorrano, difensore dell'Inter Escaldes e della nazionale andorrana, di cui è capitano.

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[ru] Лима, Ильдефонс

Ильдефо́нс Ли́ма Сола́ (кат. Ildefons Lima Solà; род. 10 декабря 1979[1][2][3], Барселона) — андоррский футболист, защитник клуба «Интер Эскальдес» и национальной сборной Андорры. Лучший бомбардир сборной своей страны в истории.

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