Joel Apezteguía

Joel Apezteguía
	Apezteguía playing for Tre Fiori in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Joel Apezteguía Hijuelos
Date of birth	17 December 1983 (age 40)
Place of birth	Plaza de la Revolución, Cuba
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Tre Fiori
Number	11
Senior career*
Years	Team
0000–2008	Industriales
2008–2009	Manresa
2009–2010	Nistru Otaci
2010–2011	Manresa
2011–2012	CF Ripollet
2013–2014	Teuta Durrës
2014–2015	Tre Fiori
2014–2015	Utiel
2016	Fano
2016–2017	Gassino
2017	Chisola
2017–2018	Ancona
2018–	Tre Fiori
International career‡
2021–	Cuba
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 March 2021; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 March 2021

Joel Apezteguía Hijuelos (born 17 December 1983) is a Cuban professional footballer who plays as a forward for Sammarinese team Tre Fiori.

Club career

Apezteguía had spells in the Spanish lower leagues and played in Moldova for Nistru Otaci.

Teuta

He scored four goals in an Albanian Superliga game on 2 February 2014 against KS Lushnja which ended in a 6–2 win and lifted Teuta to second place. He added another three goals to his final tally in Albania in Cup games^[1]^[2]

CD Utiel

With CD Utiel he scored 7 goals. These were scored against Villarreal and Osasuna.

Tre Fiori

Apezteguía made his debut in the Europa League against KÍ Klaksvík, making history as the first Cuban to play in the Champions League.^[3]

International career

He made his debut for Cuba national football team on 24 March 2021 in a World Cup qualifier against Guatemala.^[4]

Honours

Club

Tre Fiori

References

^ "Teuta Durrës vs. Lushnja". Soccerway. 2 February 2014.
^ "Skënderbeu shkëputet në krye +9 pikë, Teuta vjen e dyta". Panorama Sport. 2 February 2014. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014.
^ "Tre Fiori: Joel Apezteguia primo cubano nella storia della Champions League". 27 June 2020.
^ "Guatemala v Cuba game report". FIFA. 24 March 2021. Archived from the original on June 9, 2021.

http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2018/10/04/la-historia-de-joel-apezteguia-fotos-y-video/#.XLsqWOgzaUk

External links

Joel Apezteguía at Soccerway
Joel Apezteguía at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)

[1] "Teuta Durrës vs. Lushnja". Soccerway. 2 February 2014.

[2] "Skënderbeu shkëputet në krye +9 pikë, Teuta vjen e dyta". Panorama Sport. 2 February 2014. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014.

[3] "Tre Fiori: Joel Apezteguia primo cubano nella storia della Champions League". 27 June 2020.

[4] "Guatemala v Cuba game report". FIFA. 24 March 2021. Archived from the original on June 9, 2021.

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