Héctor Quiñones Explained

Héctor Quiñones
Fullname:Héctor Andrés Quiñones Cortés
Birth Date:March 17, 1992
Birth Place:Barbacoas, Colombia
Height:1.780NaN0
Position:Full back
Years1:2009–2011
Years2:2012
Years3:2012–2015
Years4:2012–2014
Years5:2014–2015
Years6:2016
Years7:2017
Years8:2017–2018
Years9:2018–2021
Clubs2:Atlético Junior
Clubs3:Porto
Clubs4:Porto B
Clubs5:Penafiel (loan)
Clubs6:Millonarios
Clubs7:Atlético Junior
Clubs8:Paços de Ferreira
Clubs9:América de Cali
Caps1:20
Caps2:10
Caps3:1
Caps4:53
Caps5:24
Caps6:10
Caps7:3
Caps8:18
Caps9:38
Goals1:0
Goals2:1
Goals3:0
Goals4:0
Goals5:3
Goals6:0
Goals7:0
Goals8:1
Goals9:1
Nationalyears1:2009–2010
Nationalyears2:2010–2012
Nationalteam1:Colombia U17
Nationalteam2:Colombia U20
Nationalcaps1:3
Nationalcaps2:3
Nationalgoals1:0
Nationalgoals2:0
Pcupdate:21 October 2021

Hector Quiñones (born 17 March 1992), known as Quiño, is a retired Colombian football defender.

Club

Early career

Hector was part of the youth academy of Deportivo Cali. After making his debut in 2010, he played with them for a single season where they won the Copa Colombia in his debut year. Eventually, he transferred to Junior de Barranquilla where he became a stand out, attracting foreign scouts. Which led to being signed by F.C. Porto during the winter transfer in 2012.

Porto

For the remainder of the 2012-2013 season, Héctor spent most of his playing appearances with Porto's B team. After 10 appearances, on 23 February 2013, Quiñones made his first performance, for Porto's first team. It was a game against Rio Ave, which Porto won by 2-0. Despite making only one appearance for the 2012-13 season, Porto went on to win the league title.

F.C. Penafiel

Hector went to newly promoted Penafiel for a one-season length loan for the 2014-15 season in Portugal. On 13 December 2014, Quiñones scored his first league goal for Penafiel in a 2-1 win over C.D. Nacional.

International

He was a member of the Colombia national under-17 football team that finished 4th place at the 2009 edition of the U-17 FIFA World Cup. After successful performance representing Colombia, he took part in the 2011 Toulon Tournament representing the Colombia national under-20 football team. He scored his first goal against Italy in a 1-1 draw, during the group stages and eventually won the Tournament with Colombia.

He also took part at the 2011 U-20 FIFA World Cup that was held in Colombia.

Hector was called up to represent Colombia during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification against Bolivia and Venezuela. However, he suffered an injury and missed his call up.[1]

Honors

Club

Deporto Cali
Porto
Porto B

Country

U-20 Colombia

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Colombia descarta a QuiĂąones y Soto para choques con Bolivia y Venezuela - Terra Chile . Deportes.terra.cl . 2012-05-21 . 2013-04-28.