Juan Manuel Artiaga
Personal information
Full name Juan Manuel Artiaga Roa
Date of birth (1993-01-29) 29 January 1993
Place of birth Talcahuano, Chile
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Left-back
Team information
Current team
Msida St. Joseph
Youth career
0000–2009 Bellavista
2009–2011 Deportes Concepción
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2012 Deportes Concepción
2013–2015 Naval
2015–2016 Senglea Athletic
2017 Marsaxlokk
2017 Marsa
2017–2019 Pietà Hotspurs 43 (5)
2019–2020 IFK Eskilstuna
2022 Kirkop United
2023– Msida St. Joseph
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 July 2023

Juan Manuel Artiaga Roa (born 29 January 1993) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a left-back for Maltese club Msida St. Joseph.

Club career

A left-footed defender or midfielder, in his early career, Artiaga came to Deportes Concepción youth system[2] from Club Bellavista from Talcahuano in 2009.[3] Artiaga also played for three seasons for Naval de Talcahuano in his homeland.[4][5][6]

In 2015, he emigrated to Malta thanks to a friend and signed with Senglea Athletic,[7][8] coinciding with his compatriots Edison Bilbao and Francisco Arriagada in that country.[9] In Malta, he also played for Marsaxlokk, Marsa and Pietà Hotspurs.[10][11] For Pietà Hotspurs, he made forty three appoearances in the Maltese Premier League.[12]

In 2019, he moved to Sweden and signed with IFK Eskilstuna.[13][14]

Back in Malta, he played for Kirkop United in the 2022 season.[15] For the 2023–24 season, he joined Msida St. Joseph in the Maltese Challenge League.[16]

Personal life

At the same he was a player of Senglea Athletic, he worked at a bar whose owner was the President of the club.[4][7]

References

  1. "Juan Artiaga - Estad. y palmarés". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  2. "O"HIGGINS jugará la final de Copa Chile sub18". www.FutbolRancagua.cl (in Spanish). 11 November 2011. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  3. Maldonado Méndez, Silvia (2017). "TRANSFERENCIAS ANFA - ANFP ENERO A JUNIO 2009" (PDF). docplayer.es (in Spanish). p. 12. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Diez futbolistas chilenos que se lucen en las ligas más extravagantes del planeta". Emol (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 31 October 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  5. "DEPORTES LINARES FUE CONTUNDENTE Y SE IMPUSO A NAVAL" (in Spanish). ANFP. 10 January 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  6. Juan Manuel Artiaga on LinkedIn
  7. 1 2 Urrejola, José Ignacio (20 March 2016). "EyN: Los exóticos destinos de los futbolistas nacionales que casi nadie recuerda". www.economiaynegocios.cl (in Spanish). El Mercurio. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  8. "Senglea held as Mqabba score seven". Times of Malta. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  9. Pérez D., Joaquín (7 March 2016). "El otro pasaporte: Chilenos jugando en exóticas ligas del extranjero". PrensaFútbol (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  10. (Replay (Net Television)) Replay (Net Television) jinsab infurmat li l-midfielder miċ-Ċilì Juan Manuel Artiaga mhux se jinżamm minn Pieta' Hotspurs FC iżda aktarx jibqa' f'Malta. (in Maltese). 30 June 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  11. "Fourth win in a row for Balzan". maltafootball.com. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  12. "Juan Manuel Artiaga Roa". Todo por el Fútbol ⚽ (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  13. @octavapasion (August 29, 2019). "#Patiperros8P" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 July 2023 via Twitter.
  14. (Futbolistas. Chilenos en el Exterior) #Fichajes - Juan Manuel Artiaga es nuevo jugador del IFK Eskilstuna de Suecia (in Spanish). 29 August 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  15. (Replay (Net Television)) Kirkop United FC kisbu lill-midfielder Ċilen Juan Manuel Artiaga (in Maltese). 13 January 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  16. (Msida St. Joseph Football Club) Juan joins Msida St. Joseph Football Club on Facebook. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
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