Juan Quintero

Juan Quintero
Juan Fernando Quintero (2015)
Personnel
Surname	Juan Fernando Quintero Paniagua
birthday	January 18, 1993
place of birth	Medellin ,  Colombia
size	169 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
2004-2009	Envigado FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009–2012	Envigado FC	38 0(4)
2012-2013	Atlético Nacional	15 0(2)
2012-2013	→  Pescara Calcio  (loan)	17 0(1)
2013–	FC Porto	42 0(6)
2013	FC Porto B	1 0(0)
2015-2016	→  Stade Rennes  (loan)	12 0(1)
2017	→  Independiente Medellín  (loan)	25 (13)
2018–	→  River Plate  (loan)	2 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2013	Colombia U-20	13 0(8)
2012–	Colombia	15 0(3)
1 Only league games are given. As of February 13, 2018 2 As of June 19, 2018

Juan Quintero - with full name Juan Fernando Quintero Paniagua (born January 18, 1993 in Medellín ) - is a Colombian football player .

Career

societies

Juan Quintero was born in Medellín in 1993 . He began his footballing career in youth in the nearby town of Envigado with Envigado FC , where he played for various youth teams from 2004 to 2009 - like James Rodríguez , whom he describes as his "friend". In 2009 he was appointed to the club's first team for the first time. On August 2, 2009, he made his debut in a 3-2 loss to Santa Fe CD .

After some good performances in the Categoría Primera A , Colombia's first division, Atlético Nacional , one of the country's largest football clubs, took notice of the then 18-year-old and signed him in January 2012. On January 30, he ran for his for the first time new club, in a 4-0 win against Deportivo Cali he was substituted on shortly before the end. Quintero came to a total of nine league games and seven appearances at the Copa Libertadores in 2011/12 . On September 12, 2012, he scored his first goal for Nacional.

In July 2012, Quintero was transferred again. The Italian first division club Delfino Pescara was able to secure the services of the midfielder on loan . There he signed a contract until summer 2013 with an option to buy. Due to injuries and an international match he was only used there 17 times, but mostly played when he was available. On August 26, 2012, he was in a 3-0 defeat against Inter Milan for the first time for Pescara on the field. A few weeks later, on September 23rd, he scored his first professional goal in Italy. In early 2013, Quintero was associated with football clubs such as Manchester United , Real Madrid and Bayern Munich by some major newspapers . At the end of the season he went with his club as a Table in the Serie B from.

During the summer break 2013 Quintero was signed by the Portuguese club FC Porto . He paid five million euros for half of the transfer rights. His release clause was set at € 40 million. In his first competitive game for Porto on August 18, he scored his first goal just 30 seconds after being substituted on. In his first few months at the club, however, he was not part of the regular formation and was mostly substituted on; came to 22 games (four goals) for the first and one game for the second team. Porto came in third in the end.

At the end of August 2015, Quintero moved to Stade Rennes on loan . After a brief return to FC Porto, Quintero has been back in his hometown for Independiente Medellín since January 2017 .

National team

At the beginning of his career, the association refrained from nominating Quintero for the U-17 selection because he was met with skepticism due to his size.

In the U-20 national team , for which he played a total of 13 games, he finally made his breakthrough. In 2013 he entered the U-20 South American Championship and won the title as a regular player. In the official CONMEBOL election , he was voted the best player of the tournament. At the World Cup in the same age group, his team was eliminated in the last sixteen in 2013; But Quintero was able to convince and was in the starting line-up in all four games and scored three goals.

On October 17, 2012, he played for the senior national team for the first time in a friendly against Cameroon . So far (as of June 2, 2017) he has played twelve games. He was part of the extended squad for the qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup, which were very successful for the Colombian team, which finished second behind Argentina. He played a game. In the finals , he was used for the first time in the second group game against Ivory Coast. After a substitution, his first international goal scored the goal to make it 2-0. Until the elimination of Colombia in the quarterfinals , he was used in three games.

He was part of the Colombian squad at the 2018 World Cup in Brazil . He was used in all four games and scored one goal. With the team he was eliminated in the round of 16 against England.

Style of play

Quintero is considered a great talent and has been compared to, among others, his compatriot James Rodríguez. He is a playmaker-type midfielder and, as such, is capable of fatal passes. He is also characterized by his technique and his strong left foot, which makes him a dangerous long-range shooter.

successes

National team

• 2013: U-20 South American champion

FC Porto

• 2013: Portuguese Super Cup winner

River Plate

• Copa Libertadores : 2018

Awards

• 2013: Best player in the U-20 South American Championship
• 2013: Goal of the tournament at the U-20 World Cup

Web links

• Juan Quintero in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Juan Quintero in the database of weltfussball.de
• Juan Quintero in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Juan Quintero in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://tournament.fifadata.com/documents/FWC/2018/pdf/FWC_2018_SQUADLISTS.PDF
2. ↑ Article by Orlando D'Angelo in Gazzetta dello Sport of February 14, 2013, accessed on May 22, 2013 (Italian)
3. ↑ Quintero assina por quatro anos. (No longer available online.) Fcporto.pt, July 13, 2013, archived from the original on July 16, 2013 ; Retrieved July 13, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Stuart James: Colombia's other No10, Juan Fernando Quintero, is a star in the making. theguardian.com , July 2, 2014, accessed July 11, 2014 . 
5. ^ Juan Fernando Quintero es el nuevo refuerzo del Independiente Medellin. noticiasrcn.com, September 18, 2016, accessed June 2, 2017 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Juan QUINTERO - player profile. FIFA , accessed June 20, 2014 . 
7. ↑ FIFA Player Statistics: Juan QUINTERO. FIFA, accessed July 5, 2014 .