Jorge Betancur
Personal information
Full name Jorge Andrés Betancur Bustamante[1]
Date of birth (1991-08-19) 19 August 1991[1]
Place of birth Supía, Colombia[1]
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward, midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Managua
Number 8
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 Villa Española 13 (0)
2016 Juventus Managua 15 (2)
2017 Atlético Huila 13 (1)
2017 Envigado 7 (0)
2018–2021 Real Estelí 93 (14)
2021 Lynx 7 (1)
2022– Managua 51 (2)
International career‡
2019 Nicaragua 14 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 May 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 November 2019

Jorge Andrés Betancur Bustamante (born 19 August 1991) is a footballer who plays as a forward for Liga Primera de Nicaragua club Managua FC.

Born and raised in Colombia to Colombian parents, Betancur has played in the Nicaraguan league and subsequently capped for the Nicaragua national team.

Club career

A former player of Villa Española in the Uruguayan Segunda División, Betancur debuted in the Liga Primera de Nicaragua for Juventus Managua from August to October 2016. Shortly after, he returned to Colombia, joining Atlético Huila. He spent the entire 2017 in the Colombian Primera A. Besides Huila, he also played for Envigado.

International career

Having arrived to Nicaragua for the second time in January 2018 to play for Real Estelí, Betancur became a naturalized citizen just a year later, in 2019. According La Prensa, he did not comply with the Nationality Law No. 149 at the moment of his naturalization.[2] By debuting for Nicaragua that very 2019, he also failed with the FIFA eligibility rules.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Jorge Betancur at Soccerway
  2. ↑ "Nueve jugadores nacionalizados en Nicaragua no cumplieron con las leyes del país".


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