Juan Manuel Falcón
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Juan Manuel Falcón Jiménez | ||
| Date of birth | 24 February 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Acarigua, Venezuela | ||
| Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
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Current team
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Metz | ||
| Number | -- | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Simón Rodríguez de Acarigua | |||
| 2003–2006 | Portuguesa | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2007 | Portuguesa | ||
| 2007–2010 | Llaneros de Guanare | 63 | (14) |
| 2010 | → Mineros (loan) | 8 | (1) |
| 2010–2012 | Trujillanos | 42 | (6) |
| 2012–2014 | Zamora | 62 | (36) |
| 2014– | Metz | 32 | (5) |
| 2016 | → Al-Fateh (loan) | 6 | (2) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2008– | Venezuela | 3 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 January 2016 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 July 2014 |
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Juan Manuel Falcón Jiménez (born 24 February 1989) is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays for French Ligue 2 club FC Metz and the Venezuela national football team as a striker.
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Club career
Venezuelan football
His first steps in professional football were in Portuguesa FC, where he started playing as a midfielder. Later on, he passed over several field positions until reaching the forward spot.[1]
Falcón scored his first professional goal in a Copa Venezuela match against Zamora FC, which eventually would be his last destination in the local league after a small period in Trujillanos FC. With Zamora, he won the league two times in a row and he became the top goalscorer in the league with 19 goals.
FC Metz
On mid 2014, he signed a three year contract with French team FC Metz, in a transfer reported to be around €800.000.[2]
International career
He made his debut on 23 March 2008, coming as a substitute against El Salvador.
Honours
Club
- Trujillanos
- Zamora
Individual
- Venezuelan Primera División top goalscorer: 2013–14, 19 Goals
References
- ↑ Juan Falcón, delantero por “cosas del destino” (Juan Falcón: Forward for "a matter of fate"); Líder en Deportes, 27 April 2014 (Spanish)
- ↑ Juan Falcón llevará sus goles a Francia (Juan Falcón will bring his goals to France); El Universal, 18 April 2014 (Spanish)
External links
- FC Metz official profile (French)
- Falcón.html Juan Manuel Falcón at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Articles with Spanish-language external links
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- Articles with French-language external links
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Venezuelan footballers
- Venezuela international footballers
- Association football forwards
- Portuguesa FC (Venezuela) players
- Llaneros de Guanare players
- Mineros de Guayana players
- Trujillanos FC footballers
- Zamora FC players
- Ligue 1 players
- FC Metz players
- Venezuelan expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in France
- Al-Fateh SC players
