Samuel Armenteros
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Samuel Armenteros | ||
| Date of birth | 27 May 1990 | ||
| Place of birth | Gothenburg, Sweden | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Willem II (loan) | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2000-2003 | Örgryte | ||
| 2003-2006 | Husqvarna | ||
| 2006-2008 | Heerenveen | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2008–2009 | Heerenveen | 0 | (0) |
| 2009–2013 | Heracles Almelo | 91 | (21) |
| 2013– | Anderlecht | 5 | (1) |
| 2013–2014 | → Feyenoord (loan) | 19 | (1) |
| 2014– | → Willem II (loan) | 14 | (8) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2005–2006 | Sweden U17 | 3 | (2) |
| 2008 | Sweden U19 | 5 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Sweden U21 | 9 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 September 2014 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Samuel Armenteros (born 27 May 1990 in Masthugget, Gothenburg) is a Swedish footballer of Cuban descent who plays as a striker for Willem II, on loan from Anderlecht, in the Dutch Eredivisie.
Career
The son of a Cuban father and a Swedish mother, Armenteros moved to the Netherlands at age 16 to join SC Heerenveen's youth system, and made it into the first team under head coach Gertjan Verbeek. He was successively released by Heerenveen in 2009, and later chose to rejoin Verbeek at Heracles Almelo, where he showed himself as a promising striker and managed to score his first Eredivisie goals.
Honours
Club
- SC Heerenveen
R.S.C. Anderlecht
- Belgian First Division : 2012–13
External links
- Voetbal International profile (Dutch)
| ||||||