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Javier Cortés
Mexican footballer (born 1989)
Javier Cortés Granados (born 20 July 1989) is a former Mexican professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is an Olympic gold medalist.[2]
 Cortés with Mexico in 2012 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Javier Cortés Granados | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1989-07-20) 20 July 1989 (age 34) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mexico City, Mexico | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | UNAM | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2010 | Pumas Morelos[1] | 49 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2017 | UNAM | 244 | (25) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Santos Laguna | 16 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | → Atlético San Luis (loan) | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 222 | (38) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Mexico U20 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Mexico U23 | 16 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Mexico | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Javier Cortés began his playing in the Segunda División for Prepa Pumas in Apertura 2007 season. He quickly move to Pumas' second team, Pumas Morelos in the same Apertura 2007 season. He made his Primera División debut for Pumas UNAM first team on 24 August 2008 in a match against Pachuca.[3]
He was in the Mexico national football team in the gold medal match at the 2012 Summer Olympics when Mexico defeated Brazil, 2–1.[4]
International
- As of match played 17 April 2013[6]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Mexico | 2012 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 2 | 0 | |
UNAM
Santos Laguna
Mexico U23
- "Olympics football: Mexico shock Brazil to win gold". bbc.com. 11 August 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- "Olympics football: Mexico shock Brazil to win gold". bbc.com. 11 August 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- Javier Cortés at Olympics.com; Javier Cortés at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Javier Cortés at National-Football-Teams.com
- Javier Cortés at Liga MX (archive) (in Spanish)
- Javier Cortés – Liga MX stats at MedioTiempo.com (archived) (in Spanish)
- Javier Cortés on Twitter
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