Efraín Juárez
Juárez while playing for Celtic
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| Full name | Efraín Juárez Valdez | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | February 22, 1988 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mexico City, Mexico | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defensive Midfielder / Right Back | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Monterrey | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 2001–2006 | UNAM | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Barcelona | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | UNAM | 66 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Celtic | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | → Real Zaragoza | 15 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | América | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | → Monterrey (loan) | 22 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 2014– | Monterrey | 58 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Mexico U17 | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Mexico U20 | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Mexico | 39 | (1) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 01:24, 7 March 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 February 2012 |
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Efraín Juárez Valdez (born 22 February 1988) is a Mexican footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or right back for the Mexican Primera División Monterrey.
Juárez joined the Pumas youth system at the age of thirteen. After winning the 2005 under-17 World Championship, playing a key role in defense, he was snapped up by Barcelona along with national teammate Jorge Hernández in 2006. Without very much support and very few minutes given in the Barcelona B team, he returned to Pumas Morelos and it took some time for coach Ricardo Ferretti to call him to Pumas. Competing for a position in the right wing with Fernando Espinoza, he quickly became a starter in Ferretti's team. With Ferretti's decision to give continuity to its team, Juárez renewed his contract facing the Clausura 2009 tournament. Pumas finished champions, beating Pachuca.
On 17 July 2010, Pumas accepted a bid for Juárez from Scottish Premier League club Celtic. On 26 July a £6 million transfer was agreed and Juárez signed a four-year contract with The Hoops, making him the first ever Mexican player to play in the SPL. Juárez made his Celtic debut in a 3–0 Champions League defeat away to Braga. He scored his first goal for the club in the return fixture at Celtic Park with a header. He then scored his second goal, again at Celtic Park, in a Europa League qualifying first leg match against Utrecht two weeks later. Juárez was close to agreeing a loan move to Serie A side Brescia Calcio in the January 2011 transfer window but the deal fell through. He had since fallen out of favour with the first team and his agent admitted that Juárez may need to move on in the summer of 2011 to receive first team football.
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