Juary Martinho Soares (born 20 February 1992) is a

Bissau-Guinean Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ) ...

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a defender. He plays for Portuguese Liga 3 side Amora.

Club career

On 13 January 2013, Juary made his debut with

Sporting B Sporting Clube de Portugal B is the reserve team of Portuguese football club Sporting CP, a team based in Lisbon. Reserve teams in Portugal play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. However, they cann ...

in a

2012–13 Segunda Liga The 2012–13 Segunda Liga was the 23rd season of the second-tier of football in Portugal. This season marked a series of changes in the league overall. The league's name was changed back to Segunda Liga from the previous Liga de Honra. A total o ...

match against Oliveirense. After six years in the Portuguese second and third levels, split by a year in

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with

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in 2014–15, Juary moved to France, joining

Championnat National The Championnat de France National ( en, French National Championship), commonly referred to as simply National or Division 3, serves as the third division of the French football league system behind Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. Contested by 18 clubs, t ...

side

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in the summer of 2020.

International career

Juary Soares was born in Guinea-Bissau, but raised in Portugal. He was called up by the

Guinea Bissau national football team The Guinea-Bissau national football team (Portuguese: Seleção nacional de futebol da Guiné-Bissau) represents Guinea-Bissau in men's international association football and it is controlled by the Football Federation of Guinea-Bissau, The team ...

for their

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matches against

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, and made his debut in a 1-0 win. That qualification campaign was for the first time successful and at the Africa Cup Nations debut match for Guinea-Bissau, Juary Soares scored the equalising goal in stoppage time against host country Gabon.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Guinea-Bissau's goal tally first.''

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* * 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Bissau Bissau-Guinean footballers Guinea-Bissau international footballers Bissau-Guinean expatriate footballers Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate footballers in Portugal Expatriate footballers in France Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Macau Expatriate footballers in Macau Sporting CP footballers Sporting CP B players Association football defenders Sertanense F.C. players S.L. Benfica de Macau players C.D. Mafra players US Créteil-Lusitanos players Amora F.C. players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players Liga Portugal 2 players Championnat National players 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players {{GuineaBissau-footy-bio-stub