Juan David Castañeda Muñoz (born 26 January 1995) is a Colombian professional

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who plays as a striker for

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club

Sreenidi Deccan Sreenidi Deccan Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Hyderabad, Telangana. It was established on 1 January 2015 as a football academy in Hyderabad, and later was launched from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh in 2021. The ...

. Besides Colombia, he has played in Iraq and India.

Club career

Sreenidi Deccan

On 20 September 2021, Castañeda joined Indian club

, one of the new

entrants. He debuted for the club, on 26 November 2021 in the 2021 IFA Shield opener against

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. He scored a brace in the match which ended in a 4–1 win. He made his

debut, on 27 December 2021 against NEROCA, in their 3–2 defeat in which he scored a goal. He then scored a brace against

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on 3 March 2022. He again scored a goal against

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in their 3–1 defeat. After finishing fourth in group stage with six wins in twelve matches, they moved to the championship stage. At the end, the club finished their maiden league campaign in third place with 32 points in 18 matches, and won the last match against

Churchill Brothers Churchill Brothers Futebol Clube de Goa (simply known as Churchill Brothers) is an Indian professional football club based in Margao, Goa, that competes in the Indian Super League, alongside the Goa Professional League (reserves). Founded in 1 ...

on 14 May. He was retained by the club in 2022–23 season. He maintained his goal scoring moment in that season, and finished as second highest scorer behind Luka Majcen. They later earned qualification to

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after win over NEROCA in playoffs. In the group stage opener on 8 April, they drew 1–1 with ISL outfit

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. He scored a goal on 13 April in their second match as the club thrashed

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by 2–0. In last group stage match against RoundGlass Punjab, they lost 1–0 and failed to progress to the next stage. As the 2023–24 league season began, Castañeda helped the team clinching a 4–0 win over NEROCA, by scoring a brace.

Career statistics

Honours

Atlético Nacional *

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Sreenidi Deccan *

: runner-up

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; third place 2021–22 *

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runner-up:

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Castaneda, David 1995 births Living people Colombian men's footballers Colombian expatriate men's footballers Atlético Nacional footballers Leones F.C. footballers Cortuluá footballers Fortaleza C.E.I.F. footballers 21st-century Colombian sportsmen Patriotas Boyacá footballers Zakho SC players Categoría Primera A players Categoría Primera B players Men's association football forwards Footballers from Medellín Expatriate men's footballers in Iraq Expatriate men's footballers in India Sreenidi Deccan FC players