Christopher Meneses Barrantes (born May 2, 1990) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a defender for

Sporting San José Sporting Football Club, also known as Sporting San José, is a Costa Rican football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally mean ...

Club career

Meneses came through the youth ranks of

Alajuelense Liga Deportiva Alajuelense (LDA, ), commonly known as Alajuelense and nicknamed La Liga (), is a Costa Rican multisport club based in the borough of El Llano, Alajuela, Alajuela province. Although they compete in a number of different sports, Al ...

for whom he made his senior debut in 2008. In summer 2013 he joined Swedish side

IFK Norrköping Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollförbund and play the ...

. After a year and a half with Norrköping they declared in April 2015 that Meneses was free to leave the club after they had reached an agreement that he needed to restart his career somewhere else. In 2015, he returned to Liga Deportiva Alajuelense. On 13 December 2021, Meneses signed with

International career

Meneses made his debut for Costa Rica in an August 2010

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against

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and has, as of May 2014, earned a total of 15 caps, scoring no goals. He represented his country in 2

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matches and played at the

2013 Copa Centroamericana The 2013 Copa Centroamericana was the 12th Copa Centroamericana, the regional championship for men's national association football teams in Central America. It was organized by the ''Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol'' or UNCAF, and took place in ...

and the

2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup The 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 12th CONCACAF Gold Cup competition and the 22nd CONCACAF regional championship overall in CONCACAF's fifty years of existence. The United States was the host nation. The competition began on 7 July 2013 at the ...

.CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2013
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- Norrköping 1990 births Living people Men's association football defenders Costa Rican men's footballers Costa Rica men's international footballers 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup players Liga Deportiva Alajuelense footballers Liga FPD players IFK Norrköping players Allsvenskan players Santos de Guápiles F.C. footballers Costa Rican expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Costa Rican expatriate sportspeople in Sweden {{CostaRica-footy-bio-stub