Personal information | |||
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Full name | Giovanni Alejandro Sequeira Solano | ||
Date of birth | 27 April 1975 | ||
Place of birth | San Jose, Costa Rica | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1995–1997 | Saprissa | ||
1997–1999 | Cobán Imperial | ||
1999 | Tampa Bay Mutiny | 11 | (2) |
1999 | San Jose Clash | 14 | (3) |
2000 | Proodeftiki | 11 | (0) |
2000–2001 | Saprissa | ||
2002–2003 | Cobán Imperial | ||
2003–2004 | Santa Bárbara | ||
2004 | Saprissa | 17 | (2) |
2005 | Águila | ||
2005–2006 | Cartaginés | 5 | (0) |
2006–2007 | Carmelita | 30 | (12) |
2007–2008 | Brujas | 20 | (3) |
2008–2009 | Ramonense | 48 | (21) |
2010–2011 | Saprissa | 41 | (21) |
2011 | Orión Desamparados | 0 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
1999–2009 | Costa Rica | 2 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:39, 12 December 2011 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21:39, 6 June 2010 (UTC) |
Giovanni Alejandro Sequeira Solano (born 27 April 1975) is a Costa Rican retired international footballer who played as a striker.
Sequeira began his professional career in 1995 with Saprissa, and has played in Costa Rica for Santa Bárbara,Cartaginés, Brujas and Carmelita, in Guatemala for Cobán Imperial, in the United States for the Tampa Bay Mutiny and the San Jose Clash, in Greece for Proodeftiki and in El Salvador for Águila.
He returned to Saprissa in January 2010 and joined Orión Desamparados in May 2011 to finish his career there in July 2011.
With Saprissa, he became the league's goalscorer of the 2010 Verano season. He had already scored his 100th Costa Rica Primera División goal a year before, when with Ramonense and ended up with 130 goals.
Sequeira made his senior debut for Costa Rica in a January 1999 friendly match against Ecuador and earned his second and final cap 10 years later with a September 2009 FIFA World Cup qualification match against El Salvador.
Sequeira is married to Mileska Marín and they have two sons, Alejandro and Sebastián. In 2006, he overcame alcoholism after his wife threatened to divorce him.