Juvenal Edjogo-Owono

Juvenal

Personal information
Full name	Juvenal Edjogo-Owono Montalbán
Date of birth	3 April 1979
Place of birth	Sabadell, Spain
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Santa Coloma
Youth career
	Espanyol
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–1999	Vilassar Mar
1999–2003	Espanyol B	85	(15)
2001–2002	→ Levante (loan)	19	(0)
2003–2004	Racing Santander	0	(0)
2004	Castellón	17	(5)
2004–2005	Alavés	19	(0)
2005–2007	Recreativo	26	(1)
2007	Tenerife	13	(2)
2007–2008	Cartagena	29	(2)
2008–2013	Sabadell	157	(19)
2013–2014	Cornellà	15	(1)
2014–	Santa Coloma	0	(0)
National team
2003–2015	Equatorial Guinea	28	(6)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 April 2014.

Juvenal Edjogo-Owono Montalbán (born 3 April 1979), known simply as Juvenal, is an Equatoguinean footballer who plays for Andorran club FC Santa Coloma as a midfielder.

Club career

Born in Sabadell, Barcelona, Catalonia, to an Equatoguinean father and a Spanish mother, Juvenal played in the lower leagues in four of his first five years as a senior, including three with RCD Espanyol's reserves, who loaned him to Levante UD in 2001 for his first professional experience (Segunda División). In the 2003–04 season he was part of Racing de Santander's La Liga roster, but did not appear in the competition for the Cantabrians, being released in the January transfer window.

In the following two seasons, Juvenal played in the second level, achieving top flight promotions with both Deportivo Alavés and Recreativo de Huelva. In the 2006–07 campaign he failed that objective with CD Tenerife, also appearing in less than one 1/2 of the league games.

In the 2008 summer, after one season in Segunda División B with FC Cartagena, 29-year-old Juvenal returned to his hometown and signed for CE Sabadell FC, contributing with 34 appearances and five goals in his third year as the Arlequinats returned to division two after an absence of 18 years.

International career

Juvenal qualified for Equatorial Guinea because of his father, born in Niefang – his mother hailed from Andalusia. He made his debut for the national team in 2003 and, between that year and 2008, appeared in eight FIFA World Cup qualification matches, scoring on 7 June 2008 in a 1–4 away defeat against South Africa for the 2010 edition.^[1]

In late 2007, Juvenal played in unofficial games against the Region of Murcia^[2] and Extremadura.^[3] Two months before his 36th birthday, and immediately after the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, he retired from international football.^[4]

International goals

As of 28 September 2014^[5]

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	9 September 2007	Nuevo Estadio, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	Cameroon	1–0	1–0	2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
2	7 June 2008	Super Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa	South Africa	4–1	4–1	2010 World Cup qualification
3	11 November 2012	Nuevo Estadio, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	Madagascar	1–0	2–0	2014 World Cup qualification
4	9 June 2012	Nuevo Estadio, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	Sierra Leone	1–0	2–2	2014 World Cup qualification
5	9 June 2012	Nuevo Estadio, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	Sierra Leone	2–2	2–2	2014 World Cup qualification
6	16 June 2013	Nuevo Estadio, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	Tunisia	1–0	1–1	2014 World Cup qualification

Personal life

Juvenal's younger brothers, Alberto and José, are also footballers. The former, a forward, also represented Sabadell, but played almost exclusively in the lower divisions, with a brief spell with UE Sant Andreu in the third level.

The latter never competed in higher than the regional divisions.^[6]

Club statistics

As of 17 May 2015

Club	Season	League			Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Levante	2001–02[7]	Segunda División	19	0	1	0	—		20	0
Racing Santander	2003–04[7]	Segunda División	0	0	0	0	2[lower-alpha 1]	0	2	0
Castellón	2003–04[7]	Segunda División B	13	4	0	0	4[lower-alpha 2]	1	17	5
Alavés	2004–05[7]	Segunda División	19	0	0	0	—		19	0
Recreativo	2005–06[7]	Segunda División	26	1	1	0	—		27	1
	2006–07[7]	La Liga	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	Total		26	1	1	0	—		27	1
Tenerife	2006–07[7]	Segunda División	13	2	0	0	—		13	2
Cartagena	2007–08[7]	Segunda División	29	2	1	1	—		30	3
Sabadell	2008–09[7]	Segunda División B	36	5	0	0	3[lower-alpha 2]	0	39	5
	2009–10[7]	Segunda División B	32	5	2	0	—		34	5
	2010–11[7]	Segunda División B	34	5	0	0	1[lower-alpha 2]	0	35	5
	2011–12[7]	Segunda División	27	4	1	0	—		28	4
	2012–13[7]	Segunda División	24	0	0	0	—		24	0
	Total		153	19	3	0	4	0	160	19
Cornellà	2013–14	Tercera División	15	1			—		15	1
Santa Coloma	2014–15[8]	Primera Divisió	16	0	3	1	4[lower-alpha 3]	0	23	1
Career total			303	29	9	2	14	1	330	32

1. Appearances in UEFA Intertoto Cup
2. Appearances in Promotion Play-offs
3. Appearances in UEFA Champions League

References

1. Juvenal – FIFA competition record
2. Murcia gana por la mínima a Guinea Ecuatorial (Murcia gets minimal advantage over Guinea Equatorial); Marca, 26 December 2007 (Spanish)
3. La selección extremeña inicia su andadura con una victoria (Extremaduran autonomous team gets going with win); Marca, 28 December 2007 (Spanish)
4. Resultado histórico del Nzalang pese a la derrota con la RD Congo (Historical result of Nzalang despite the defeat with the DR Congo); Equatorial Guinea Press, 7 February 2015 (Spanish)
5. "Juvenal – Matches". Soccerway. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
6. La Liga más atractiva (The most attractive League); Mundo Deportivo, 23 October 2004 (Spanish)
7. "Juvenal: Juvenal Edjogo-Owono Montalbán". BDFutbol. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
8. "Juvenal". Soccerway. Retrieved 20 March 2015.

External links

• Juvenal Edjogo-Owono profile at BDFutbol
• Juvenal Edjogo-Owono at National-Football-Teams.com