Joe Corona
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| Full name | Joe Benny Corona | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | July 9, 1990 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Los Angeles, California, United States | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | |||||||||||
| Club information | ||||||||||||
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Current team
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Tijuana | |||||||||||
| Number | 8 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Nomads Academy | |||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Tijuana | |||||||||||
| College career | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2008 | San Diego State Aztecs | 15 | (3) | |||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2010– | Tijuana | 156 | (11) | |||||||||
| 2015 | → Veracruz (loan) | 9 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2016 | → Dorados (loan) | 29 | (0) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Mexico U22 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2012 | United States U23 | 4 | (4) | |||||||||
| 2012– | United States | 17 | (2) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of January 27, 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of May 21, 2016 |
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Joe Benny Corona (born July 9, 1990) is an American professional soccer player who currently plays for Club Tijuana. Corona played in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy for Southern California club Nomads before joining Club Tijuana.
Corona made his first appearance in the 2010 Clausura season and was the first player coming from youth teams to score a goal with the first team in September 2010. He started his career with the Nomads from San Diego, California.
During the 2009–10 season, Corona played 160 minutes in 3 appearances.
During the 2010–11 season, Corona made 39 appearances, including 34 starts, and scored six goals as Tijuana earned promotion to the Primera División. Joe Corona started his first game in Primera Division de Mexico, scoring his team's only goal in a 2–1 loss to Monarcas.
In June 2015, he was loaned by Veracruz.
Due to Corona's birth and his parents being of both Mexican and Salvadoran nationality, he was eligible to represent the United States, Mexico, or El Salvador. He was named to the preliminary roster to represent the United States in a friendly match against Mexico in August 2011 under Bob Bradley, but Bradley was fired before the official roster was announced. Corona later accepted a call-up to represent Mexico in a two-legged friendly series against Chile's U22 squad in preparation for the 2011 Pan American Games. Corona only played in the second game and this did not tie him to play for the Mexican team, as the game was not an official FIFA match. Corona did not make the final cut for Mexico's Pan American Games squad and later accepted a call up to the United States U-23 team.
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