Juan Sebastián Quintero Fletcher (born 23 March 1995) is a Colombian

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who plays as a

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for Vila Nova.

Career

Deportivo Cali

Sporting Gijón (loan)

On 31 July 2017, after spending four years at

Deportivo Cali Asociación Deportivo Cali, best known as Deportivo Cali, is a Colombian sports club based in Cali, most notable for its football team, which currently competes in the Categoría Primera A. Deportivo Cali is one of the most successful footba ...

, the club announced his loan to

Sporting de Gijón Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. (), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting (although in an international context this can lead to confusion with Sporting Clube de Portugal) is a Spanish football club from Gijón, P ...

for one season.

Fortaleza

On 19 January 2019 Quintero signed with

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club

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International career

He was included among the squad of

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at the

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, but never played.

Personal life

In November 2018, Quintero and his brother were shot six times in their car when they were driving around

Cali Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the second ...

. Finally, both were unharmed.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

;Deportivo Cali *

Categoría Primera A The Categoría Primera A (), commonly referred to as Liga BetPlay Dimayor (between 2015 and 2019 ''Liga Águila'') due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay, is a Colombian professional league for association football clubs. It is the ...

: 2015 Apertura *

Superliga Colombiana The Superliga Colombiana (''Colombian Superleague''), officially known as Superliga BetPlay DIMAYOR due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay, is an official competition contested between the winners of the Apertura and Finalización t ...

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;Fortaleza *

Campeonato Cearense The Campeonato Cearense is the football league of the state of Ceará, Brazil. Format The Campeonato Cearense has three divisions with the following division and format (as in any other Brazilian soccer championship, the format can change ever ...

: 2019,

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, 2021 *

Copa do Nordeste Copa do Nordeste (''Cup of the North-East''), also known as Campeonato do Nordeste (''Championship of the North-East'') or Copa Nordeste (''Northeastern Cup''), and sometimes informally referred as Lampions League – in reference to the UEFA Ch ...

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

References

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Profile Rio 2016
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1995 births Living people Colombian men's footballers Footballers from Cali Men's association football defenders Categoría Primera A players Segunda División players Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Deportivo Cali footballers Sporting de Gijón players Fortaleza Esporte Clube players Esporte Clube Juventude players CR Vasco da Gama players Deportivo Pereira footballers Vila Nova Futebol Clube players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Colombia Colombian expatriate men's footballers Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil {{Colombia-footy-defender-stub