Juary Soares
Personal information
Full name Juary Martinho Soares
Date of birth (1992-02-20) 20 February 1992 (age 31)
Place of birth Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Amora
Number 14
Youth career
0000–2009 Sporting Bissau
2009–2011 Sporting
2009–2010 → U. Leiria (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2014 Sporting 0 (0)
2011–2012 → Sertanense (loan) 23 (0)
2012 → U. Leiria (loan) 0 (0)
2013–2014 Sporting B 16 (0)
2014–2015 Tirsense 10 (0)
2014–2015 S.L. Benfica de Macau 12 (3)
2015–2016 S.U. 1º Dezembro 27 (0)
2016–2020 Mafra 94 (2)
2020–2021 Créteil 18 (0)
2021– Amora 8 (1)
International career‡
2016– Guinea-Bissau 21 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 November 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Juary Martinho Soares (born 20 February 1992) is a Bissau-Guinean footballer who plays as a defender. He plays for Portuguese Liga 3 side Amora.

Club career

On 13 January 2013, Juary made his debut with Sporting B in a 2012–13 Segunda Liga match against Oliveirense.[1]

After six years in the Portuguese second and third levels, split by a year in Macau with Benfica de Macau in 2014–15, Juary moved to France, joining Championnat National side Créteil in the summer of 2020.[2]

International career

Juary Soares was born in Guinea-Bissau, but raised in Portugal. He was called up to the Guinea-Bissau national football team for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches against Kenya, and made his debut in the 1-0 win.[3] That qualification campaign was for the first time successful and at the Africa Cup Nations debut match for Guinea-Bissau, Juary Soares scored the equalising goal in stoppage time against host country Gabon.

International goals

Scores and results list Guinea-Bissau's goal tally first.[4]
Goal Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 14 January 2017 Stade d'Angondjé, Libreville, Gabon  Gabon 1–1 1–1 2017 Africa Cup of Nations

References

  1. ^ "Sporting B-Oliveirense" (in Portuguese). LPFP. 2013-01-13.
  2. ^ "L'Interview de la nouvelle recrue Juary Soares" (in French). US Créteil-Lusitanos. 22 July 2020.
  3. ^ Football. "CAF - Competitions - Q CAN 2017 - Match Details". CAF – Confederation of African. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  4. ^ "Soares, Juary". National Football Teams. Retrieved 20 January 2017.

External links

Guinea-Bissau squad – 2017 Africa Cup of Nations
Guinea-Bissau squad – 2019 Africa Cup of Nations
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