John William Narváez Arroyo (born 12 June 1991) is an Ecuadorian

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who plays for ADT as a

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Career

Born in Esmeraldas, Narváez began playing football with

Deportivo Cuenca Club Deportivo Cuenca is an Ecuadorian football club based in Cuenca. They currently play in the Serie A, the top-flight football league in the country, and is one of two clubs from Cuenca to have played in the top-flight (the other being LDU ...

. He had a brief playthrough with El Nacional in 2012. He joined

Ecuadorian Serie A The Liga Pro Ecuador Serie A, simply known as the Liga Pro or the Serie A (or the Ecuadorian Serie A to distinguish it from the Italian Serie A and the Brazilian Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Série A), or as Liga Pro Ecuabet for sponsorship re ...

side

Club Sport Emelec Club Sport Emelec is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil that is best known for their professional association football, football team. The football team plays in the Ecuadorian Serie A, the highest level of professional football in th ...

in 2013, and featured regularly as the club won the 2013 tournament. The defender played for Emelec in the 2014

Copa Libertadores The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as Copa Libertadores de América (), is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in South American club football. The tournam ...

International career

Narváez is a Youth product of

. He was part of the Ecuadorian squad which played at the

2011 South American U-20 Championship The 2011 South American Youth Football Championship, South American Youth Championship (, ) was a football competition for U-20 national teams in the South America (CONMEBOL). The tournament was held in Peru from 16 January to 12 February. The to ...

, qualifying 4th for the

2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 18th FIFA U-20 World Cup. Colombia hosted the tournament between 29 July and 20 August 2011, with matches being played in eight cities. The tournament was won by Brazil national under-20 football team, Brazil w ...

. The Squad went on to reach the Round of 16, being defeated by

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. Narváez was called up for the

2014 FIFA World Cup The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for list of men's national association football teams, men's national Association football, football teams organised by FIFA. It took place in Brazil fr ...

preliminary squad. He didn't make the cut to the final 23. He was once again called up for the

2015 Copa América The 2015 Copa América was the 44th edition of the Copa América, the main international football tournament for national teams in South America, and took place in Chile between 11 June and 4 July 2015. The competition was organized by CONMEBOL, ...

making the cut for the final 23 this time around. He made his debut on June 6, 2015 against

Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...

coming in as a sub for

Jefferson Montero Jefferson Antonio Montero Vite (; born 1 September 1989) is an Ecuadorian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder#Winger, winger for club F.C. St Helens, FC St Helens. He has represented the Ecuador national fo ...

Honours

;Emelec *

Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

References

External links

John Narváez profile
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Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol * Federación, Entre Ríos, Argentina * Federación Department, Argentina * Federación Municipality, Falcón State Falcón State (, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Coro. The state was named after Juan Crisóstomo ...

1991 births Living people Ecuadorian men's footballers 21st-century Ecuadorian sportsmen Ecuadorian expatriate men's footballers Ecuadorian Serie A players Peruvian Primera División players C.D. Cuenca footballers C.S. Emelec footballers C.D. El Nacional footballers L.D.U. Quito footballers FBC Melgar footballers C.S.D. Macará footballers Ecuador men's international footballers 2015 Copa América players Footballers from Esmeraldas Province Men's association football defenders Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in Peru Expatriate men's footballers in Peru {{Ecuador-footy-defender-stub