Hugo Quintana

Last updated
Hugo Quintana
Personal information
Full name Hugo Lorenzo Quintana Escobar
Date of birth (2001-11-10) 10 November 2001 (age 22)
Place of birth Asunción, Paraguay
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Olimpia
Number 8
Youth career
Albiverde
2015–2021 Olimpia
2020–2021 → Palmeiras (loan)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2018– Olimpia 90 (10)
2020 → 12 de Octubre (loan) 1 (0)
International career
2019 Paraguay U20 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:18, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Hugo Lorenzo Quintana Escobar (born 10 November 2001) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Olimpia.

Contents

Club career

Born in Asunción, Quintana joined Olimpia's youth setup at the age of 14. [1] He made his first team – and Primera División – debut on 29 April 2018, starting in a 3–0 home win over Sportivo Luqueño. [2]

Quintana scored his first professional goal on 15 October 2018, netting his team's second in a 5–0 away routing of Deportivo Santaní. [3] At the end of the season, he was elected as the Breakthrough Player. [4]

In January 2020, Quintana moved on loan to 12 de Octubre, but only played one match before leaving to Palmeiras, where he was assigned to the under-20 team. [5] He left the club in February 2021, after being rarely used. [6]

Upon returning, Quintana was assigned back to Olimpia's first team, but suffered a knee injury in August 2022 which sidelined him for the remainder of the season. [7]

Career statistics

As of 12 December 2023 [8]
ClubSeasonLeagueCupContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Olimpia 2018 Primera División 112———90
2019 191—00—230
2021 122—7 [lower-alpha 1] 11 [lower-alpha 2] 0203
2022 163—13 [lower-alpha 3] 1—294
2023 322006 [lower-alpha 1] 0—382
Total901000262—11612
12 de Octubre (loan) 2020 Primera División10———10
Career total9110002620011712
  1. 1 2 Appearance(s) in Copa Libertadores
  2. ↑ Appearance(s) in Supercopa Paraguay
  3. ↑ Eleven appearances and one goal in Copa Libertadores, two appearances in Copa Sudamericana

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Francisco Arce</span> Paraguayan football manager (born 1971)

Francisco Javier "Chiqui" Arce Rolón is a Paraguayan football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Paraguayan Primera División club Olimpia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Club Libertad</span> Paraguayan football club

Club Libertad is a Paraguayan professional football club based in Asunción that currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División. The club plays its home games at Estadio Tigo La Huerta; which holds 10,100 people.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roberto Acuña</span> Argentine–Paraguayan footballer (born 1972)

Roberto Miguel Acuña Cabello is a Paraguayan former footballer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julio César Cáceres</span> Paraguayan footballer (born 1979)

Julio César Cáceres López is a Paraguayan football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is the current manager of Sportivo Luqueño.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Football in Paraguay</span>

Football is by far the most popular sport in Paraguay. Paraguay's national team has played at eight FIFA World Cup competitions and has won two Copa América tournaments. Olimpia Asunción is the country's most successful club in domestic and international competitions. Paraguay's football leagues are divided into four divisions. In 2020, Paraguay's top-tier was ranked 8th in the world by the IFFHS.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Derlis González</span> Paraguayan footballer (born 1994)

Derlis Alberto González Galeano is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays for Olimpia and the Paraguay national team. Mainly a forward, he can also play as a winger.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Júnior Alonso</span> Paraguayan footballer (born 1993)

Júnior Osmar Ignacio Alonso Mujica is a Paraguayan footballer who plays either as a centre back or a left back for Russian Premier League club Krasnodar and the Paraguay national team.

Juan Danilo Santacruz González is a Paraguayan footballer who plays for Categoría Primera A club Deportivo Pereira.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Piris Da Motta</span> Paraguayan footballer (born 1994)

Robert Ayrton Piris Da Motta Mendoza is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Cerro Porteño and the Paraguay national team.

Oscar Raul Paulín Delarrosa is an Argentine–Paraguayan former association footballer and current coach who directs Sportivo Ameliano in the Paraguayan Tercera Division.

Carlos Sebastián Ferreira Vidal is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Brazilian club Vasco da Gama, on loan from American club Houston Dynamo.

The 2018 División Profesional season was the 84th season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay. The season began on 2 February and ended on 8 December. Cerro Porteño were the defending champions.

Alberto Cirilo Contrera Giménez is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Guaraní.

The 2019 División Profesional season was the 85th season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay. The season began on 22 January and ended on 15 December. The fixtures for the season were announced on 13 December 2018. Olimpia were the defending champions after winning both tournaments of the 2018 season, and won a third championship in a row in the Torneo Apertura with three matches to spare after defeating Deportivo Santaní by a 6–0 score on 4 May. Olimpia also crowned themselves in the Torneo Clausura, winning a fourth title in a row with one matchday remaining, following a 2–2 draw at home against Guaraní on 8 December.

Iván René Franco Díaz is a Paraguayan footballer who plays for Houston Dynamo, on loan from Libertad, as an attacking midfielder.

The 2020 División Profesional season was the 86th season of the Paraguayan Primera División, the top-flight professional football league in Paraguay. The season began on 17 January and ended on 30 December. The fixtures for the season were announced on 16 December 2019. Olimpia were the defending champions after winning both tournaments of the 2019 season.

The 2021 División Profesional season was the 87th season of the Paraguayan Primera División, the top-flight professional football league in Paraguay. The season began on 5 February and ended on 5 December 2021. The fixtures for the season were announced on 15 January 2021. Olimpia were the defending champions after winning the 2020 Clausura tournament.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2021 Supercopa Paraguay</span> Football match

The 2021 Supercopa Paraguay was the first edition of the Supercopa Paraguay, Paraguay's football super cup. It was held on 12 December 2021 between the 2021 Primera División best-ranked champions in the aggregate table Cerro Porteño and the 2021 Copa Paraguay champions Olimpia, as the match that closed the 2021 season of Paraguayan football.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2022 Supercopa Paraguay</span> Football match

The 2022 Supercopa Paraguay was the second edition of the Supercopa Paraguay, Paraguay's football super cup. It was held on 25 January 2023 between the 2022 Primera División best-ranked champions in the aggregate table Olimpia and the 2022 Copa Paraguay champions Sportivo Ameliano at Estadio Defensores del Chaco in Asunción. Unlike the previous edition, this match was the opening event of the 2023 season.

The 2023 Primera División season was the 89th season of the Paraguayan Primera División, the top-flight professional football league in Paraguay. The season consisted of two tournaments, Apertura and Clausura, and it began on 27 January and ended on 1 December 2023. The fixtures for the season were announced on 14 November 2022.

References

  1. ↑ "Hugo Quintana se alista para su debut" [Hugo Quintana lines up for his debut] (in Spanish). D10. 28 April 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "El debut de Quintana" [The debut of Quintana] (in Spanish). ABC Color. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  3. ↑ ""Marqué y no sabía qué hacer"" ["I scored and I did not know what to do"] (in Spanish). ABC Color. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "El Joven Revelación" [The Breakthrough Player] (in Spanish). ABC Color. 13 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  5. ↑ "Llegó para reforzar al "12", pero ahora va al Palmeiras" [He arrived to bolster "12", but now he goes to Palmeiras] (in Spanish). Versus. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  6. ↑ "Saídas, chegadas e promoções: Palmeiras atualiza elenco do sub-20 no site oficial" [Departures, arrivals and promotions: Palmeiras update under-20 squad in the official website] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Lance!. 27 February 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  7. ↑ "Grave lesión de Hugo Quintana" [Serious injury of Hugo Quintana] (in Spanish). D10. 5 August 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  8. ↑ Hugo Quintana at Soccerway. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.