Mafre Icuté

Mafre Icuté
Personal information
Full name Manfred Noé Icuté Fuentes
Date of birth (1988-04-20) 20 April 1988
Place of birth San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Municipal
Number 21
Youth career
–2010 Deportivo Petapa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2015 Deportivo Petapa 128+ (13+)
2015–2016 Cobán Imperial 19 (3)
2016– Municipal 0 (0)
National team‡
2016– Guatemala 3 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2:52, 9 November 2016 (UTC).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2:52, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Icuté and the second or maternal family name is Fuentes.

Manfred Noé Icuté Fuentes (born April 20, 1988) is a Guatemalan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Guatemalan club Municipal and the Guatemalan national team.[1]

Playing career

Club career

Born in San Miguel Petapa, Icuté naturally came up through the youth ranks of local club Deportivo Petapa.[2] He made his debut during the 2010–11 season, while the team was in the second division (Primera División de Ascenso). They were promoted for the next season, and he made his first division debut on July 10, 2011 in a 2-1 loss to Comunicaciones.

Icuté signed with fellow Liga Nacional team Cobán Imperial during the preseason in December 2015. He also considered Guatemalan giants Municipal and Comunicaciones.[3][4] He scored 3 goals in 19 appearances with Los Príncipes Azules during the 2015–16 Clausura season, and became captain by the end of the competition.[5]

Then, in May 2016, 29-time champions Municipal made headlines when they signed both Icuté and Mexican forward Carlos Kamiani to one-year contracts just 24 hours after being eliminated from the 2015–16 Clausura playoffs.[5][6]

International career

Icuté was first called up to train with the Guatemala national team squad in March 2015, while captaining Deportivo Petapa.[7][8] However, he did not earn an official cap until appearing in a 3-1 victory over Honduras in a friendly on February 10, 2016, where he recorded one assist.[2][9] He also appeared in a 1-0 win over El Salvador a month later as a member of the starting XI.[10]

A week later, he was named by manager Walter Claverí as part of the 24-man squad that was to represent Guatemala at the 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers (CONCACAF).[11] He featured in a 4-0 loss to the United States on March 29 in Columbus, Ohio.[12]

Honours

Club

Deportivo Petapa

References

  1. ↑ "Soccerway profile". Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 "La Selección Nacional también cumple sueños" (in Spanish). Publinews.gt. February 9, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ González, Eduardo (December 21, 2016). "Mafre Icuté deja a Petapa para vincularse a Cobán Imperial" (in Spanish). Prensa Libre. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ Sandoval, Mynor (December 21, 2015). "Mafre Icuté se integra a las filas de Cobán Imperial" (in Spanish). Click Deportivo. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  5. 1 2 Mota, Ronal (May 23, 2016). "Mafre Icuté jugará vestido de rojo" (in Spanish). Click Deportivo. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Municipal hace oficial el fichaje de Carlos Kamiani y Mafre Icuté" (in Spanish). El País de los Jóvenes. May 24, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ Cabrera, Gloria (March 12, 2015). "Icuté: "Me esforzaré el doble para asumir mi compromiso con Selección"" (in Spanish). Prensa Libre. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  8. ↑ Mota, Ronal (March 12, 2015). "Ivan Sopegno convoca a Mafre Icuté a Selección Mayor" (in Spanish). Click Deportivo. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Victoria de Guatemala sobre Honduras en la era de Claverí" (in Spanish). Lared.com.gt. February 10, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Guatemala derrotó a El Salvador que sigue con muchas dudas" (in Spanish). Diez.hn. March 3, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Guatemala llama a 24 jugadores para enfrentar a EEUU rumbo al Mundial Rusia-2018" (in Spanish). El Periódico. March 11, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Estados Unidos 4-0 Guatemala: Estados Unidos se lo cobra al doble ante Guatemala" (in Spanish). Univision Deportes. March 29, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
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