Jefferson Lerma

What I admire about Jefferson Lerma is that he embodies the unglamorous heartbeat of a football team. A Colombian defensive midfielder who can also slot in at centre-back, he wins the ball, breaks up play, and rarely grabs headlines, yet his teams visibly run smoother for it. Watching him cover ground for ninety minutes at Crystal Palace and for Colombia, I see a player whose value lives in the details that statistics struggle to capture. He is the kind of relentless, selfless professional I find easy to root for, because he makes everyone around him better.

Name (English)

Jefferson Lerma

Name (Japanese)

ジェフェルソン・レルマ

Reading

じぇふぇるそん・れるま

Born

October 25, 1994 (age 31)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

Origin

El Cerrito, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia

Height

179 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonlerma/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%20Lerma
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16300824

Tags

• Valle del Cauca Department
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.