Juan Pablo Freytes

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Juan Pablo Freytes
Juan Pablo Freytes Everton v Union La Calera 20230716 01.jpg
Freytes with Unión La Calera in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (2000-01-11) 11 January 2000 (age 25)
Place of birth Ticino, Argentina
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) [1]
Position(s) Centre-back [2]
Team information
Current team
 Fluminense
Number 22
Youth career
Newell's Old Boys
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2018–2025 Newell's Old Boys 10 (0)
2021–2022 → Independiente Rivadavia (loan) 53 (0)
2023 → Unión La Calera (loan) 26 (2)
2024 → Alianza Lima (loan) 40 (4)
2025– Fluminense 21 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 April 2024

Juan Pablo Freytes (born 11 January 2000) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Fluminense. [3]

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Club career

Freytes played in the academy of Newell's Old Boys, with the defender featuring for the club's youth teams including the U17s in a friendly against the United States U17s in June 2017. [3] [4] He was promoted to their senior squad in 2018, subsequently going unused on the substitutes bench for two Primera División matches in 2018–19. [3] Freytes' professional debut soon arrived in an away loss to San Lorenzo on 16 February 2019. [3]

In the summer 2021, Freytes was loaned out to Independiente Rivadavia until the end of 2022 with an option to purchase 80% of his rights, for a fee around one million dollars. [5]

In 2024, signed this year by Alianza Lima, Juan Freytes played 40 games, scored four goals and provided four assists. [6]

At the end of 2024, Freytes was acquired by Fluminense, one of the clubs he faced while playing the Copa Libertadores 2024 group stage with Alianza. The brazilian tricolor paid US$ 3,3 million for 70% of the defender's rights.

He was one of the best Fluminense players at the FIFA Club World Cup, even being complimented and highlighted as such by legendary italian defender Marco Materazzi. [7]

International career

Freytes received a call-up to train with the Argentina national team in August 2017, ahead of friendlies with Uruguay and Venezuela. [8]

Career statistics

Club

As of 28 April 2024. [3]
ClubDivisionSeasonLeagueCupContinentalTotal
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Newell's Old Boys Primera División 20195000—50
202140001050
Total900010100
Independiente Rivadavia Primera Nacional 202117000—170
202234020—360
Total5102000530
Unión La Calera Primera División 202324220—262
Alianza Lima Liga 1 2024132—30162
Career total97440501054

References

  1. ↑ "Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys - Sitio Oficial del club más grande del interior - Plantel - Juan Pablo Freytes". Newell's Old Boys. Archived from the original on 17 February 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  2. ↑ Juan Pablo Freytes at WorldFootball.net
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Argentina - J. Freytes". Soccerway. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "Los sparrings rosarinos de la Selección". La Capital. 23 August 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  5. ↑ El juvenil leproso Juan Pablo Freytes se va a préstamo a Independiente Rivadavia, elciudadanoweb.com, 21 July 2021
  6. ↑ https://ge.globo.com/futebol/times/fluminense/noticia/2024/12/27/fluminense-encaminha-a-contratacao-de-juan-freytes-do-alianza-lima-e-do-atacante-paulo-baya.ghtml
  7. ↑ "Materazzi elege Freytes como destaque na Copa de Clubes e vê Fluminense com chances de ir à final".
  8. ↑ "Evangelista, afuera". La Capital. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
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