José María López de Silva Sánchez (born 1 February 1983), known as López Silva, is a Spanish footballer who plays as a winger for CD Cerreño.
Club career Born in Huelva, Andalusia, López Silva joined Valencia CF after finishing his development at Real Madrid, and was part of the reserves' setup in the 2002–03 season in the Segunda División B, even though he failed to appear in any games. In the summer of 2004, he signed with CD Linares of the same league.
López Silva continued to compete in the third division the following years, representing Burgos CF, CD Alcalá, Orihuela CFEl Orihuela CF ficha nuevos jugadores como el interior Juanjo y el extremo López Silva (Orihuela CF sign new players like midfielder Juanjo and winger López Silva); Orihuela Digital, 27 June 2007 (in Spanish) and Cádiz CF.El equipo amarillo presenta sus primeras caras nuevas de la pretemporada (Yellow team present their first new faces of the pre-season); La Voz Digital, 16 July 2008 (in Spanish) With the latter, he achieved promotion to Segunda División, contributing three goals from 32 appearances.
On 30 August 2009, aged 26, López Silva played his first match as a professional, starting in a 0–1 home loss against UD Salamanca.El Salamanca saca provecho de su efectividad ante un poco acertado Cádiz (Salamanca profit from effectiveness against an unimpressive Cádiz); Marca, 30 August 2009 (in Spanish) He scored his first goal on 8 November, his team's first in a 2–2 home draw with Real Betis.Ogbeche da un punto al Cádiz en el descuento (Ogbeche gives a point to Cádiz in stoppage time); Marca, 8 November 2009 (in Spanish)
On 15 June 2011, López Silva signed a two-year deal with Córdoba CF also in the second tier.Caballero, López Silva y Astrain, primeros fichajes del Córdoba (Caballero, López Silva and Astrain, first signings of Córdoba); Marca, 15 June 2011 (in Spanish) In his third year he appeared in 40 matches and scored three times, helping the side return to La Liga after a 42-year absence.
López Silva made his debut in the Spanish top flight on 25 August 2014, starting the 2–0 defeat at Real Madrid.Slow start from Real Madrid; ESPN FC, 25 August 2014 He left the club in June 2016, and subsequently joined CD Alcoyano of division three.López Silva se incorpora al CD Alcoyano (López Silva added to CD Alcoyano); CD Alcoyano, 31 August 2016 (in Spanish)
On 25 July 2018, López Silva joined Tercera División side UD Tamaraceite.López Silva, 'galáctico' para el Tamaraceite (López Silva, 'galactic' for Tamaraceite); La Provincia, 25 July 2018 (in Spanish)
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External links
Stats and bio at Cadistas1910