Juan Zúñiga

Juan Zúñiga
Zúñiga in July 2009
Personnel
Surname	Juan Camilo Zúñiga Mosquera
birthday	December 14, 1985
place of birth	Chigorodó ,  Colombia
size	172 cm
position	Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000–2005	Atlético Nacional
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2008	Atlético Nacional	123 (9)
2008-2009	AC Siena	28 (0)
2009-2018	SSC Naples	125 (4)
2016	→  Bologna FC  (loan)	9 (0)
2016-2017	→  Watford FC  (loan)	21 (1)
2018	Atlético Nacional	4 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2005-2015	Colombia	61 (1)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of career 2 Status: end of career

Juan Camilo Zúñiga Mosquera (born December 14, 1985 in Chigorodó , Departamento de Antioquia ) is a former Colombian football player .

Career

In the club

Zúñiga began his career at Atlético Nacional . There he was part of the professional squad from 2005 and was Colombian champion in 2005 and 2007. With Atlético Nacional he took part in the Copa Libertadores 2008 . For the 2008/09 season he moved to AC Siena . After a season in Siena, in which Zúñiga played 28 games in Serie A , he transferred to the traditional Italian club SSC Napoli in summer 2009 . He signed a five-year contract with the southern Italians. In January 2016 he was awarded to the league competitor FC Bologna . In the summer of 2016, the English first division club Watford FC loaned him . In early 2018, Zúñiga returned to Colombia for half a year, but only made four season appearances at Atlético Nacional. In July 2018, Zúñiga announced his immediate retirement.

National team

Zúñiga took part with the Colombian U-20 national team in the Junior World Cup in 2005 , where he reached the round of 16. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Colombian national soccer team . He was part of Colombia's squad at the 2007 Copa America , where he played in the last group game against the USA .

At the Football World Cup 2014 , Zúñiga was a regular on the right outside and reached the quarter-finals against Brazil after a preliminary round without losing points with his team , but Colombia lost 2-1. In this game, Zúñiga committed a foul on the Brazilian striker Neymar , whereupon he suffered a fractured vertebra and was out for the rest of the World Cup. As a result, Zúñiga received abuse on social networks and death threats. He himself apologized and stated that it was a normal duel with no intention of injury.

successes

• Colombian champion : 2005-I , 2007-I , 2007-II
• Italian Cup Winner : 2011/12 , 2013/14

Web links

Commons : Juan Zúñiga  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Juan Zúñiga in the database of weltfussball.de
• Juan Zúñiga in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Mission profile on aic.football.it (Italian)
• Statistics profile on sscnapoli.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juan Zúñiga signs with Napoli for five years sscnapoli.it (Italian)
2. ↑ Zuniga al Bologna ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. bolognafc.it, January 13, 2016, accessed April 22, 2016 
3. ↑ Camilo Zúñiga anunció que se retira del fútbol profesional gol.caracoltv.com, on July 4, 2018, accessed on July 24, 2018
4. ↑ World Cup-out for Neymar - Brazil's hero suffers vertebral fracture. Die Welt , accessed July 5, 2014 . 
5. ^ Olympia Verlag GmbH (Ed.): Death threats for Zuniga. In: kicker online. July 5, 2014, accessed July 9, 2014 . 
6. ↑ "I didn't mean to hurt Neymar". (No longer available online.) In: Fussballeuropa.com. July 5, 2014, archived from the original on July 20, 2014 ; accessed on July 15, 2014 . 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.