Joel Qwiberg

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Joel Qwiberg
Personal information
Full name Joel Eduardo Qwiberg
Date of birth (1992-10-09) October 9, 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth Bogotá, Colombia
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Left back
Youth career
0000–2006 Klintehamns IK
2006–2008 FC Gute
2008–2010 GIF Sundsvall
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2011 FC Gute 20 (2)
2012–2014 Vasalunds IF 40 (1)
2014 FC Den Bosch 1 (0)
2015 Vasalunds IF 20 (0)
2016–2017 Brommapojkarna 55 (1)
2018 San Jose Earthquakes 5 (0)
2018 → Reno 1868 (loan) 4 (0)
2019–2020 Örgryte IS 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Joel Eduardo Qwiberg (born October 9, 1992) is a Swedish former professional footballer. [1]

Contents

Career

Sweden

Qwiberg's career began in Sweden at FC Gute (youth team Klintehamns ik), in the fourth-tier Division 2 league Södra Svealand. In January 2012, he moved up to the third-tier league in Sweden, Division 1 Norra, to play for Vasalunds IF, where he made 43 appearances and scored two goals. He was loaned to FC Den Bosch, in the Netherlands' second-tier Eerste Divisie, in July 2014, [2] but returned to Vasalunds the following February after recording only one appearance for the Dutch club. Qwiberg played for Vasalunds for one more year, before transferring to Division 1 side IF Brommapojkarna in January 2016. [3]

During his first season at Brommapojkarna, Qwiberg served as part of the league's best defense, posting an average of 0.65 goals per game, and helped the club see both a championship victory and a promotion to Superettan, Sweden's second-tier league, following a 19-1-6 season. [4] In his second season, BP won the championship again and was again promoted, this time to Sweden's top-tier Allsvenskan league. [5] However, Qwiberg would not experience his first season of top-tier football with BP.

Major League Soccer

On December 1, 2017, the San Jose Earthquakes, of the top-tier American league MLS, announced that they had signed Qwiberg on a free transfer to a multi-year contract. According to a quote by general manager Jesse Fioranelli in the club's statement about his signing, Qwiberg had been "pursued by several first-division clubs in Sweden and other parts of Europe". [6] His signing came shortly after San Jose hired Swedish coach Mikael Stahre from Allsvenskan club BK Häcken in November 2017. [7] He made his MLS debut on 7 April 2018 in a 1-1 draw with the Philadelphia Union, starting the match and playing 58 minutes before substituting out for Shea Salinas. [8]

Qwiberg parted ways with San Jose on March 2, 2019. [9]

Reno 1868 FC

Qwiberg appeared briefly on loan with San Jose's USL affiliate Reno 1868, starting against San Antonio on May 26, 2018. [10]

Back to Sweden

On 1 April 2019, Qwiberg returned to Sweden, signing with Örgryte IS on a one-year contract. [11]

Personal life

Qwiberg was born in Colombia but adopted by a Swedish family as a baby. This background was one of the reasons he elected to move his career to the United States in 2018, so that he could be closer to Colombian culture, learn Spanish alongside his Spanish-speaking teammates at San Jose Earthquakes, and become a part of the city's large Hispanic community. [12]

Statistics

As of June 13, 2018 [13]
ClubSeasonLeagueCupLeague cupTotal
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Vasalund
2012 1600000160
2013 1511 [a] 000161
2014 1110000111
2015 2001000210
Total6422000662
Den Bosch (loan)
2014-2015 10000010
Total10000010
Brommapojkarna
2015 00300030
2016 2513000281
2017 3001000310
Total5517000621
San Jose
2018 101 [b] 00020
Total10100020
Career total1193100001273
  1. ↑ Appearances in Svenska Cupen
  2. ↑ Appearances in U.S. Open Cup

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References

  1. ↑ "Earthquakes Sign Defender Joel Qwiberg | San Jose Earthquakes". Archived from the original on December 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Joel Qwiberg lämnar Vasalund för BP" (in Swedish). Laget. January 11, 2016. Archived from the original on December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Joel Qwiberg blir BP's tredje värvning för säsongen" (in Swedish). Svenska Fans. January 11, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Succésäsong för Mellberg och BP" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. November 6, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Brommapojkarna klara för allsvenskan" (in Swedish). Expressen. October 24, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  6. ↑ "NEWS: Earthquakes Sign Defender Joel Qwiberg". San Jose Earthquakes. December 1, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ "San Jose Earthquakes sign left back Joel Qwiberg out of Sweden". Major League Soccer. December 1, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  8. ↑ "PHIvsSJ 04-07-2018 | MLSsoccer.com".
  9. ↑ "NEWS: Earthquakes, Joel Qwiberg Mutually Agree to Part Ways | San Jose Earthquakes".
  10. ↑ @SKholdings_ (May 27, 2018). "Here is your @renownhealth and Hometown Health Starting XI tonight! A number of @SJEarthquakes players on loan fo…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  11. ↑ Välkommen till ÖIS, Joel Qwiberg!, fotboll.ois.se, 1 April 2019
  12. ↑ "Joel Qwiberg's desire to be closer to Colombian culture paved way for SJ". MLSSoccer.com. December 23, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
  13. ↑ "J. QVIBERG". Soccerway.
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