John Anthony Requejo Jr. (born May 23, 1996) is an American professional

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player who plays for

Flower City Union Flower City Union is an American pre-professional soccer team based in Rochester, New York, United States, that most recently played in the National Independent Soccer Association, a third tier league of the United States soccer league system and ...

in the

National Independent Soccer Association The National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States. The league is previously in the third tier of American soccer and began play in 2019. NISA initially used a fall-to-spring season for ...

Career

Club

Requejo signed with

Club Tijuana Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, simply known as Tijuana or Xolos, is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Tijuana, Baja California, that competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. The club ...

upon turning 18 in 2014, having previously signed a letter of intent to play for the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

. He was ranked as a top recruit in the class of 2014 by TopDrawerSoccer. He made his professional debut in a

Copa MX Copa MX, also known as Copa Corona MX for sponsorship reasons, was an association football competition in Mexico and the domestic cup tournament for clubs at the highest and second levels of Mexican football league system. Formerly known as Copa ...

match against

Coras de Tepic Coras Fútbol Club commonly known as Coras de Tepic is a football club that plays in the Mexican football league system Mexican Liga Premier (third-tier). The club was founded in the late 1950s as Deportivo Tepic and is based in Piedras Negras, C ...

. Requejo signed with

for the 2023 NISA Season

International

Requejo was a regular for the United States U17 and has appeared with the United States U20 squad.

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* 1996 births Living people American expatriate men's soccer players American men's soccer players Men's association football defenders Club Tijuana footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico People from Carpinteria, California Soccer players from Santa Barbara County, California United States men's under-20 international soccer players United States men's youth international soccer players Ventura County FC players 21st-century American sportsmen {{US-footy-defender-1990s-stub