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Cristian Anderson Penilla Caicedo (born 2 May 1991) is an
Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
ian football winger who plays for
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side,
Mushuc Runa S.C. Mushuc Runa Sporting Club, commonly known as Mushuc Runa, is an Football in Ecuador, Ecuadorian professional Association football, football club based in Ambato, Ecuador, Ambato. It was founded on January 2, 2003. They currently play in the Ecuado ...
.


Club career

Penilla joined
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in January 2013 from
Deportivo Quito Sociedad Deportivo Quito is an Ecuadorian club football club based in Quito. For most of its existence, it competed in Serie A, the highest level of the Ecuadorian professional football league. And currently competes in the Second Category of Pi ...
, one year after he left
ESPOLI Club Deportivo ESPOLI is a professional football team from Quito, Ecuador, that now plays in the Segunda Categoría, the third level of professional football in country. The team belong to the ''Escuela Superior de Policía'' (''ESPOLI''), a pol ...
for Deportivo Quito. In his first season with
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he scored six goals out of 32
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games. On December 24, 2014, it was confirmed that Penilla would join
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. On January 23, 2018, Penilla was loaned to the
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of
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. Penilla contributed 12 goals and 7 assists and was named Midnight Riders Man of the Year. New England made his move permanent at the end of their 2018 season.


International career

Penilla was called for Friendlies against
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and
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on October 10 and 14th, 2014 respectively. Penilla made his debut for Ecuador against the United States on October 10, 2014.


International goals

''Scores and results list Ecuador's goal tally first.''


Career statistics


Club


National team


References

1991 births Living people Footballers from Esmeraldas, Ecuador Men's association football midfielders Ecuadorian men's footballers 21st-century Ecuadorian sportsmen Liga MX players Major League Soccer players C.D. ESPOLI footballers S.D. Quito footballers Barcelona S.C. footballers C.F. Pachuca players Atlético Morelia players New England Revolution players Associação Chapecoense de Futebol players Ecuadorian expatriate men's footballers Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil {{Ecuador-footy-midfielder-stub