Juan Iturbe

Juan Iturbe, 2011

Juan Manuel Iturbe ( born June 4, 1993, Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine footballer Paraguayan origin. As a midfielder and striker used equally he is currently at FC Porto in the Primeira Liga under contract.

Career

In the club

Juan Manuel Iturbe arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina to the world, but his parents Juan del Carmen Iturbe and Miriam Mabel Arévalos are Paraguayans, so that the Son has both citizenships. Iturbe approached for youth selection teams of both countries, however, recently stated that the chapter Paraguay was over for him. In youth played Iturbe at Club Universal Encarnación and one year in the Club Sportivo Trinidense, before joining the club Cerro Porteño 2007. There he was given 28 June 2009 at the game against local rivals from the capital, Asunción, Club Libertad than just sixteen, his first Erstligaeinsatz.

Only seventeen, he had no professional contract in the summer at Cerro Porteño. He therefore signed an agreement with the club Quilmes AC in the province of Buenos Aires, which allowed him to train there, and to bind in January for the following season to FC Porto. After agreeing to the move to FC Porto, he returned in February to Cerro Porteño, where he remains in June 2011 until his 18th birthday. In his first match of the Copa Libertadores achieved "wonder child " Iturbe shortly thereafter in a 5-2 against the Chilean representative CSD Colo -Colo two hits.

In the National Team

Iturbe began his international career in Paraguay. He went through the U-17 and U-20 national team. At the age of only 16 years, he played a friendship match between Chile and Paraguay on November 4, 2009 on the occasion of inauguration of the stadium in Concepción. Since this involved not an official game, Iturbe can still be nominated for Argentina. In the U-20 South American Championship soccer 2011 Iturbe played for Argentina and shot it three goals.