Juan Bautista Esquivel

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Juan Bautista Esquivel
Personnel
Surname Juan Bautista Esquivel Lobo
birthday August 12, 1980
place of birth San Ramon de Alajuela ,  Costa Rica
size 165 cm
position Midfielder , winger and defender
Juniors
Years station
CD Saprissa
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2006 CD Saprissa
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
~ 1997 ~ Costa Rica U-17
~ 1999 ~ Costa Rica U-20
2002-2003 Costa Rica 4 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
CD Saprissa (youth)
Brujas FC (various activities)
2009-2010 CD Barrio México (Co-Tr.)
1 Only league games are given.

Juan Bautista Esquivel Lobo (born August 12, 1980 in San Ramón de Alajuela ) is a former Costa Rican soccer player in the position of midfielder , wing and defender , who started his career as an active player in 2006 at the age of 25 Had to stop heart problems. At that time he was a regular for CD Saprissa , with whom he had numerous successes, and four-time Costa Rican national player . In his home country he is mainly known by his nickname Juanbau , a mixture of his two first names, or by his nickname Juancho .

Career

Club career

Born in 1980 in the Costa Rican city of San Ramón de Alajuela , Esquivel began his club career with the youngsters of the Costa Rican record champions CD Saprissa . In this he went through all youth leagues before he brought it in the 1997/98 season for the first time in the men's team with play in the Liga de Fútbol de Primera División . There he finally made his professional debut for los Morados in a game against AD Limonense . After he won the Clausura with the team in 1997/98, he became Costa Rican champion for the first time after Apertura and Clausura were merged into an overall table.

In 1998 he won the Copa Interclubes UNCAF with Saprissa , the Central American club championship, which at that time was still held under the name Copa de Grandes de Centroamerica , and was then able to win the Apertura and Clausura in 1998/99 with the team thus for the second time in a row overall champion of Costa Rican first class. In the following season he had to admit defeat with the club in both championship parts against LD Alajuelense , who then secured the 20th championship title in club history. 2000/01 the season was a bit different from previous years, with Esquivel and his team not being able to prevail in both parts and the overwhelming LD Alajuelense again becoming champions.

The team did a little better from August to September 2001 during the Central American Club Championship, where the team came second in the final round behind the CSD Municipal from Guatemala . After a second place in the Apertura 2001 it was only enough for a fifth place in the Clausura 2002, which meant a third place in the final ranking. The team around Juanbau experienced an upswing from the 2002/03 season when the team moved up to second place in the overall table after a runner-up in the Apertura and fifth in the Clausura. The new breakthrough followed in 2003/04 , when the team only achieved second place behind CS Herediano after a clear victory for Apertura in the Clausura , while the defensive player Juan Bautista Esquivel only managed a 3-2 win in the decider -Success through the Heredia club , although they were clearly ahead of their pursuers in the overall table with 15 points.

After 1998, the Monstruo Morado was able to win the Copa Interclubes UNCAF again in 2003 and was very successful in the subsequent CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2004 , where the team entered the quarter-finals. CD Saprissa made it to the final, which was played in a return leg, where the team lost to the compatriots from LD Alajuelense . Lau then ran the 2004/05 season , in which Saprissa could again not prevail against Alajuelense. Nevertheless, Esquivels team qualified with a second place at the Copa Interclubes UNCAF for the CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2005 , where the team defeated the UNAM Pumas in the final , won this tournament for the third time after 1993 and 1995 and thus won this tournament for the FIFA club 2005 World Championship qualified.

The team celebrated one of the best years in the club's 70-year history in 2005, although this year was not one of the best years of his life for Esquivel personally. While the defensive player won the 24th championship title with the team in the league after victories of Apertura and Clausura , for Juan Bautista Esquivel personally it was the fourth championship title, the team triumphed at the Club World Cup. After a 1-0 win over Sydney FC in the quarter-finals, the team was eliminated with a 3-0 defeat against Liverpool FC , but in the subsequent game for third place they managed to win 3-2 over al-Ittihad , which was the case Team brought one of the greatest successes in the club's history to date. This winning streak was only tarnished by Esquivels early retirement at the age of 25, when he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , a congenital dysfunction of the heart, which made him at risk of heart attack. After initial examinations in December 2005, before the Club World Cup, the diagnosis was made in early 2006. His father had already died of a heart attack seven years earlier, which, among other things, he took as an opportunity to end his career immediately. In order to ensure better medical care than in Costa Rica, Esquivel had to go to Mexico for various examinations and tests.

Since the club did not want to let the player go, his contract only expired at the end of the 2006/07 season, the player was finally offered by the general manager Jorge Alarcón to work in other functions for the club, including as a trainer in Junior and lower class areas. By the end of his official career, he had made 15 league appearances for Saprissa in 2005/06.

National team career

Esquivel gained his first international experience for the Costa Rican U-17 national team, with which he took part in the U-17 World Cup in Egypt in 1997 , for which the team was among the top 3 in the CONCACAF U. -17 championship of 1996 . At the tournament on Egyptian soil, the Costa Ricans in Group D could not prevail against their peers from Ghana, Argentina and Bahrain and were eliminated from the current tournament after three defeats. Esquivel scored his home country's only goal in the tournament in a 3-1 loss to Bahrain.

About a year and a half later, the 1.71 m tall defensive player took part with the Costa Rican U-20 juniors at the 2009 Junior World Cup in Nigeria . Juancho was used in the tournament in three of four games of his team, he only missed the opening game against the hosts. The U-17 national team from Costa Rica only barely made it into the round of 16, where they lost 2-0 to Ghana and from the ongoing competition, that of Spain with later senior national players such as Iker Casillas , Xavi , Gabri , Carlos Marchena , Pablo Orbaiz or Daniel Aranzubia was won, retired.

In 2002 Esquivel was brought to the senior national team of his home country for the first time , for which he made his debut on March 27, 2002 in a friendly against Morocco . In the game after that against South Korea on April 20, 2002, he brought it to another short stint, followed by another short stint against Ecuador on October 16, 2002. Until the following year he came to another international match, with his last game in November 2003 against Finland denied and was not called up until the end of his career.

Coaching career

After he continued to work for CD Saprissa in various areas of activity in the years after his departure, and was briefly entrusted with various activities at Brujas FC , he joined the former coaching team in June 2009 together with Pablo Alejandro Izaguirre and José Luis Torres Costa Rican second division club CD Barrio México . There he was assistant coach up to and including 2010, before the coaching team was replaced by Marvin Solano , who however only managed the men's team for a short period of time.

successes

Private

He and his wife María del Mar Chacon have a daughter named Alisson, who was around a year old when her father ended his career.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Costa Rica - Bahrain (1: 3) (English), accessed June 9, 2015
  2. ↑ “Me gusta dejar huella” (Spanish), accessed on June 9, 2015
  3. ^ Cuando el corazón deja de latir (Spanish), accessed June 9, 2015
  4. ↑ Barrio México cambia de técnico on the official website of La Nación (Spanish), accessed on June 9, 2015
  5. ↑ Barrio México con otro banquillo de lujo (Spanish), accessed on June 9, 2015
  6. ↑ Aprendió a vivir sin el balón (Spanish), accessed June 9, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Esquivel, Juan Bautista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esquivel Lobo, Juan Bautista (full name); Juanbau (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Costa Rican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH San Ramon de Alajuela , Costa Rica