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Juan Pablo Úbeda

Juan Pablo Úbeda
Personal information
Full name Juan Pablo Úbeda Pesce
Date of birth (1980-07-31) July 31, 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Santiago de Chile, Chile
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Unión Española
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2002 Unión Española 76 (20)
1998–1999Sampdoria (loan) 0 (0)
2000Universidad Católica (loan) 31 (10)
2002–2004 Colo-Colo 76 (21)
2004 Ciudad de Murcia 16 (2)
2005 Alicante 0 (0)
2005 Unión Española 15 (6)
2006 Everton 18 (2)
2006 Palestino 18 (5)
2007 Zamora 0 (0)
2007 Virtus Lanciano 8 (1)
2007–2008 Palestino 25 (18)
2008–2009 Lobos BUAP 26 (9)
2010 Curicó Unido 8 (2)
Total 317 (96)
International career
1997 Chile U17 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan Pablo Úbeda Pesce (born July 31, 1980) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a striker.

International career

Úbeda played for Chile at the 1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Egypt.[1] Previously, he took part in the South American Championship.[2]

Personal life

As a football player, 'Ubeda was nicknamed Spiderman due to the fact that he used to put on a mask of this superhero to celebrate his goals.[3]

Following his retirement from football, he has developed a professional career in car racing. Through his maternal line, he has inherited this passion since his mother, Josefina Pesce, was a car racing champion and his uncle, Lino Pesce, was a F3 race driver who competed at the Autódromo Las Vizcachas in Santiago, Chile.[3]

References

  1. ^ Juan Pablo ÚbedaFIFA competition record (archived)
  2. ^ Quijada, Vicente (31 July 2020). "Juan Pablo Úbeda: El ariete de La Roja Sub 17 en el Mundial de 1997". www.laroja.cl (in Spanish). FFCh. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b Contreras, José (6 November 2014). "Juan Pablo Ubeda: El lado tuerca de Spiderman" (in Spanish). La Tercera. Retrieved 29 August 2022.

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