Daniel Martín Alexandre (born 16 September 1981), commonly known as Dani, is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a striker.
On 4 November 2001 he made his first-team – and La Liga – debut, playing the second half of a 0–1 home loss against Real Zaragoza and finishing the season with 17 appearances and five goals.
[3] After having missed most of the 2002–03 campaign due to a serious knee injury, occurred in April 2002[4][5] and relapsed in August,[6] Dani was knocked unconscious during a league game against Deportivo de La Coruña in November 2003, and was unable to remember a disallowed goal he had scored earlier.
[7] However, he continued to grab important goals for the Andalusians with relatively little playing time, most notably the extra time winner in the 2005 final of the Copa del Rey against CA Osasuna,[8] adding the only goal in the 1–0 home victory over Chelsea in the group stage of UEFA Champions League;[9] on 20 August 2005, his brace at the Camp Nou helped to defeat FC Barcelona 2–1 in the Supercopa de España, but the Catalans had already won the first leg 3–0.
Under contract until 2010, Dani joined Segunda División club Cádiz CF, also in the region, on a one-year deal including the possibility of definitive purchase at the end of the term.