Alejandro Sequeira | |
Fullname: | Giovanni Alejandro Sequeira Solano |
Birth Date: | 27 April 1975 |
Birth Place: | San Jose, Costa Rica |
Position: | Striker |
Years1: | 1995–1997 |
Clubs1: | Saprissa |
Years2: | 1997–1999 |
Clubs2: | Cobán Imperial |
Years3: | 1999 |
Clubs3: | Tampa Bay Mutiny |
Caps3: | 11 |
Goals3: | 2 |
Years4: | 1999 |
Caps4: | 14 |
Goals4: | 3 |
Years5: | 2000 |
Clubs5: | Proodeftiki |
Caps5: | 11 |
Goals5: | 0 |
Years6: | 2000–2001 |
Clubs6: | Saprissa |
Years7: | 2002–2003 |
Clubs7: | Cobán Imperial |
Years8: | 2003–2004 |
Years9: | 2004 |
Clubs9: | Saprissa |
Caps9: | 17 |
Goals9: | 2 |
Years10: | 2005 |
Clubs10: | Águila |
Years11: | 2005–2006 |
Clubs11: | Cartaginés |
Caps11: | 5 |
Goals11: | 0 |
Years12: | 2006–2007 |
Caps12: | 30 |
Goals12: | 12 |
Years13: | 2007–2008 |
Clubs13: | Brujas |
Caps13: | 20 |
Goals13: | 3 |
Years14: | 2008–2009 |
Caps14: | 48 |
Goals14: | 21 |
Years15: | 2010–2011 |
Clubs15: | Saprissa |
Caps15: | 41 |
Goals15: | 21 |
Years16: | 2011 |
Clubs16: | Orión Desamparados |
Caps16: | 0 |
Goals16: | 0 |
Nationalyears1: | 1999–2009 |
Nationalteam1: | Costa Rica |
Nationalcaps1: | 2 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Club-Update: | 21:39, 12 December 2011 (UTC) |
Ntupdate: | 21:39, 6 June 2010 (UTC) |
Giovanni Alejandro Sequeira Solano (born 27 April 1975) is a Costa Rican retired international footballer who played as a striker.
Sequeira began his professional career in 1995 with Saprissa, and has played in Costa Rica for Santa Bárbara,[1] Cartaginés, Brujas and Carmelita, in Guatemala for Cobán Imperial,[2] in the United States for the Tampa Bay Mutiny[3] and the San Jose Clash,[4] in Greece for Proodeftiki[5] and in El Salvador for Águila.[6]
He returned to Saprissa in January 2010[7] and joined Orión Desamparados in May 2011[8] to finish his career there in July 2011.[9]
With Saprissa, he became the league's goalscorer of the 2010 Verano season.[10] He had already scored his 100th Costa Rica Primera División goal a year before, when with Ramonense[11] and ended up with 130 goals.[12]
Sequeira made his senior debut for Costa Rica in a January 1999 friendly match against Ecuador[13] and earned his second and final cap 10 years later with a September 2009 FIFA World Cup qualification match against El Salvador.
Sequeira is married to Mileska Marín and they have two sons, Alejandro and Sebastián.[14] In 2006, he overcame alcoholism after his wife threatened to divorce him.[15]
His brother Douglas Sequeira also played for the national team.