Personal information | |||
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Full name | Juary Martinho Soares | ||
Date of birth | 20 February 1992 | ||
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 | |||
–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.
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]
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.
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 14 January 2017 | Stade d'Angondjé, Libreville, Gabon | Gabon | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2017 Africa Cup of Nations |
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