Mafre Icuté

Mafre Icuté
Personal information
Full name	Manfred Noé Icuté Fuentes
Date of birth	20 April 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth	San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Santa Lucía
Youth career
–2010	Petapa
Senior career*
Years	Team
2010–2015	Petapa
2016	Cobán Imperial
2016	Municipal
2017–2018	Petapa
2018	Xelajú
2019–	Santa Lucía
International career‡
2016–	Guatemala
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6:09, 18 June 2018 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6:09, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Manfred Noé Icuté Fuentes (born April 20, 1988) is a Guatemalan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Guatemalan club Santa Lucía and the Guatemalan national team.

Club career

Born in San Miguel Petapa, Icuté naturally came up through the youth ranks of local club Deportivo Petapa.^[1] He made his debut during the 2010–11 season, while the team was in the second division (Primera División de Ascenso). They were promoted for the next season, and he made his first division debut on July 10, 2011 in a 2-1 loss to Comunicaciones.

Icuté signed with fellow Liga Nacional team Cobán Imperial during the preseason in December 2015. He also considered Guatemalan giants Municipal and Comunicaciones.^[2]^[3] He scored 3 goals in 19 appearances with Los Príncipes Azules during the 2015–16 Clausura season, and became captain by the end of the competition.^[4]

I n May 2016, 29-time champions Municipal made headlines when they signed both Icuté and Mexican forward Carlos Kamiani to one-year contracts just 24 hours after being eliminated from the 2015–16 Clausura playoffs.^[4]^[5]

International career

Icuté was first called up to train with the Guatemala national team squad in March 2015, while captaining Deportivo Petapa.^[6]^[7] However, he did not earn an official cap until appearing in a 3-1 victory over Honduras in a friendly on February 10, 2016, where he recorded one assist.^[1]^[8] He also appeared in a 1-0 win over El Salvador a month later as a member of the starting XI.^[9]

A week later, he was named by manager Walter Claverí as part of the 24-man squad that was to represent Guatemala at the 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers (CONCACAF).^[10] He featured in a 4-0 loss to the United States on March 29 in Columbus, Ohio.^[11]

Honours

Deportivo Petapa

Primera División de Ascenso: 2013–14 Clausura, 2013–14 Apertura

References

^ ^a ^b "La Selección Nacional también cumple sueños" (in Spanish). Publinews.gt. 9 February 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
^ González, Eduardo (21 December 2016). "Mafre Icuté deja a Petapa para vincularse a Cobán Imperial" (in Spanish). Prensa Libre. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
^ Sandoval, Mynor (21 December 2015). "Mafre Icuté se integra a las filas de Cobán Imperial" (in Spanish). Click Deportivo. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
^ ^a ^b Mota, Ronal (23 May 2016). "Mafre Icuté jugará vestido de rojo" (in Spanish). Click Deportivo. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
^ "Municipal hace oficial el fichaje de Carlos Kamiani y Mafre Icuté" (in Spanish). El País de los Jóvenes. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
^ Cabrera, Gloria (12 March 2015). "Icuté: "Me esforzaré el doble para asumir mi compromiso con Selección"" (in Spanish). Prensa Libre. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
^ Mota, Ronal (12 March 2015). "Ivan Sopegno convoca a Mafre Icuté a Selección Mayor" (in Spanish). Click Deportivo. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
^ "Victoria de Guatemala sobre Honduras en la era de Claverí" (in Spanish). Lared.com.gt. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
^ "Guatemala derrotó a El Salvador que sigue con muchas dudas" (in Spanish). Diez.hn. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
^ "Guatemala llama a 24 jugadores para enfrentar a EEUU rumbo al Mundial Rusia-2018" (in Spanish). El Periódico. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
^ "Estados Unidos 4-0 Guatemala: Estados Unidos se lo cobra al doble ante Guatemala" (in Spanish). Univision Deportes. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

External links

Mafre Icuté at ESPN FC
Mafre Icuté at National-Football-Teams.com
Mafre Icuté at Soccerway

[Cumple-1] "La Selección Nacional también cumple sueños" (in Spanish). Publinews.gt. 9 February 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

[2] González, Eduardo (21 December 2016). "Mafre Icuté deja a Petapa para vincularse a Cobán Imperial" (in Spanish). Prensa Libre. Retrieved 6 November 2016.

[3] Sandoval, Mynor (21 December 2015). "Mafre Icuté se integra a las filas de Cobán Imperial" (in Spanish). Click Deportivo. Retrieved 6 November 2016.

[Rojos-4] Mota, Ronal (23 May 2016). "Mafre Icuté jugará vestido de rojo" (in Spanish). Click Deportivo. Retrieved 6 November 2016.

[5] "Municipal hace oficial el fichaje de Carlos Kamiani y Mafre Icuté" (in Spanish). El País de los Jóvenes. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.

[6] Cabrera, Gloria (12 March 2015). "Icuté: "Me esforzaré el doble para asumir mi compromiso con Selección"" (in Spanish). Prensa Libre. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

[7] Mota, Ronal (12 March 2015). "Ivan Sopegno convoca a Mafre Icuté a Selección Mayor" (in Spanish). Click Deportivo. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

[8] "Victoria de Guatemala sobre Honduras en la era de Claverí" (in Spanish). Lared.com.gt. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

[9] "Guatemala derrotó a El Salvador que sigue con muchas dudas" (in Spanish). Diez.hn. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

[10] "Guatemala llama a 24 jugadores para enfrentar a EEUU rumbo al Mundial Rusia-2018" (in Spanish). El Periódico. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

[11] "Estados Unidos 4-0 Guatemala: Estados Unidos se lo cobra al doble ante Guatemala" (in Spanish). Univision Deportes. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

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