Joel Leandro Ordóñez Guerrero (born 21 April 2004) is an Ecuadorian professional

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 lea ...

who plays as a

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for the Belgian club

Club Brugge (), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,042. They pl ...

Club career

Ordóñez is a youth product of

Deportivo Azogues Deportivo Azogues was an Ecuadorian football club based in Azogues. It played in the Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system aft ...

and

Independiente del Valle Club de Alto Rendimiento Especializado Independiente del Valle, known simply as Independiente del Valle, is a professional football club based in Sangolquí Ecuador that currently plays in the Ecuadorian Serie A. Founded in 1958, the club plays ...

. He began his senior career with Independiente del Valle in 2022. He made his senior and professional debut them in a 0–0

Ecuadorian Serie A The Liga Pro Ecuador Serie A, simply known as the Liga Pro or the Serie A (or the Ecuadorian Serie A to distinguish it from the Italian Serie A and the Brazilian Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Série A), or as Liga Pro Ecuabet for sponsorship re ...

draw with Guayaquil City on 9 April 2022. After making 11 senior appearances with Independiente del Valle, he transferred to the Belgian club

Club NXT Club NXT is the youth academy of Belgian football club Club Brugge. The most senior team of Club NXT acts as Club Brugge's reserve team, and competes in the Challenger Pro League, the second flight of Belgian football. History On 1 July 2020 ...

on 2 August 2022. On 19 August 2022, he was promoted to

senior team.

International career

Ordóñez first represented Ecuador internationally with the Ecuador U15s as captain at the

2019 South American U-15 Championship The 2019 South American Under-15 Football Championship was the 9th edition of the South American Under-15 Football Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the men's under-15 national teams ...

. He was called up to the Ecuador U20s for the

South American Youth Football Championship The South American Youth Football Championship, also known as South American U-20 Championship (; ), branded as CONMEBOL Sub 20, is a South American football tournament organized by the CONMEBOL for South American national teams of men under age o ...

, but was not released by his club for the tournament.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Club Brugge *

Belgian Cup The Belgian Cup (; ; ) is the main knockout football competition in Belgium, run by the Royal Belgian FA. The competition started in 1908 with provincial selections as the "Belgian Provinces Cup". Starting from 1912 only actual clubs were allowed ...

: 2024–25

References

External links

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Pro League profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ordonez, Joel 2004 births Living people Footballers from Guayaquil Ecuadorian men's footballers 21st-century Ecuadorian sportsmen Ecuador men's youth international footballers Ecuador men's international footballers Men's association football defenders Independiente del Valle footballers Club Brugge KV players Club NXT players Ecuadorian Serie A players Challenger Pro League players Ecuadorian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium 2024 Copa América players