nationalcaps birth_date years caps goals image_size nationalyears image name fullname birth_place nationalteam height totalcaps totalgoals nationalgoals clubs position article_title
29 29 september 1974 2001 2007 -- 2009 2009 2010 2010 -- 2011 2011 -- -- 2012 2002 2002 -- 2006 2006 -- 2007 238 35 149 56 79 13 11 17 18 12 4 20 3 6 0 0 3 0 200 2000 -- 2007 israel lopez.jpg israel lópez israel lópez hernández mexico city , mexico mexico 1.66 616 48 0 guadalajara querétaro toluca cruz azul toluca cruz azul necaxa tecos midfielder israel lópez -lrb- footballer -rrb-

israel lópez -lrb- footballer -rrb-

israel lópez hernández -lrb- born 29 september 1974 -rrb- is a retired mexican football player whose last team was querétaro fc .
initially a right fullback who converted to the midfield during the prime years of his career , lópez made his debut at age 19 with unam in 1993 .
by the following year he was a starter in defense alongside players such as claudio suárez and went on to make 238 appearances for the club , but the middle and late 1990 's were generally disappointing for pumas .
in 2001 he moved to chivas and then joined toluca in 2002 .
there he spent the most productive seasons of his career , moving into a three-man central midfield that also included rafael garcía and playmaker antonio naelson .
in his first season at the club , toluca won the apertura 2002 championship , and lópez scored in the final against monarcas morelia .
he served as team captain in 2004 and won another championship in the apertura 2005 campaign .
in the following season lópez , a frequent scorer from free kicks , scored a career-high 6 goals .
he joined cruz azul in 2006 before returning to toluca for the clausura 2008 season ; he won the apertura 2008 title , his third , with toluca , but by now played less frequently .
lópez departed toluca in 2010 and spent his last top-flight seasons with cruz azul , necaxa , estudiantes tecos , and querétaro .
lópez also earned 26 caps for the mexico national team .
his first international match came on june 4 , 2000 against ireland in the u.s. cup , playing in a squad filled mostly with fellow pumas players .
he returned to the team in 2003 on the strength of his performances with toluca , appearing in four of mexico 's qualifying matches for the 2006 fifa world cup .
lópez was on the preliminary list of players nominated for the world cup squad , but he was one of three final cuts announced by coach ricardo antonio lavolpe before the tournament .
his final international match came against ecuador in a 4-2 victory in oakland , california on march 28 , 2007 .
he was part of the mexico 2004 olympic football team that was eliminated in the first round , having finished third in group a behind group winners mali and south korea .
