Who is Fernando Aristeguieta, the player who scored a hat-trick and led Puebla to the top of Liga MX 2022?

Last night everyone wondered, who is Fernando Aristeguieta, the player who scored a hat-trick and led Puebla to the lead of Liga MX 2022?

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The Venezuelan striker not only had a great game, but thanks to his 3 goals, La Franja regained the lead in the overall standings, which they had lost to Pachuca. 

Who is Fernando Aristeguieta?

Fernando Aristeguieta is a Venezuelan soccer player who plays as a striker for Puebla in Liga MX, which he dazzled last night with a hat-trick to annihilate Cruz Azul. 

The player began his career in soccer at a very young age, when he joined the U-17 team of Caracas Futbol Club, a team in which he scored 21 goals in the 2007-2008 season, so he made his debut in the Venezuelan First Division with Caracas FC in the 2009-2010 season. 

In his first season, he played 20 games and scored 6 times, but not everything was easy in this club because on July 31, 2010, he suffered a rupture of the cruciate ligaments of the left knee.

This injury kept him away from the field for 9 months, missing the 2011 South American Cup and the 2011 South American U-20 Championship, but he was able to return to action in the 2011-2012 season. 

With this club, he managed to win the Venezuelan Cup in 2009, in addition to the Venezuelan First Division title in the 2009-2010 season.

In addition, he was the top scorer of the Venezuelan Apertura Tournament in the top scorer of the year in 2012.

At the end of his stay in Caracas FC, the player had played 123 games with this club, scoring 53 goals. 

Where and when was Fernando Aristeguieta born?

Fernando Aristeguieta was born in Caracas, Distrito Federal on April 9, 1992, and once he proved his quality in Caracas FC, he arrived on loan to FC Nantes, where he would play 62 matches, scoring 10 goals. 

His work at the club was so good that the club exercised its option to buy him and he remained to play in France until 2015 when he arrived at the Philadelphia Union of the MLS, where he would score 5 goals in 22 games. 

After a brief stay at Clube Desportivo Nacional, he would be transferred to América de Cali, in Colombia in 2018, the team in which he scored 21 goals in 37 games. 

When did Fernando Aristeguieta arrive in Liga MX?

On July 1, 2019, the player would arrive as a free agent to Liga MX to play with Monarcas Morelia, a club for which he scored 10 goals in 36 games, before arriving at Mazatlan FC. 

With the Cañoneros, Aristeguieta would play 37 matches in which he would score 7 goals. Finally, on June 17, 2021, he joined Puebla, a club where he achieved the feat of scoring a hat-trick against Cruz Azul. 

Has Fernando Aristeguieta played for the Venezuelan national team?

The player was called up to the senior national team for the friendly against the Chilean national team and later played in the 2011 Copa América, where he scored a goal against El Salvador. 

On October 7, he made his debut in an official match with the Venezuelan National Soccer Team, in the first match of the first day of the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers against the Ecuadorian National Team at the Atahualpa Stadium in Quito. 

After a year without playing for the Venezuelan national team, he played five minutes in the match against Nigeria on November 14, 2012.

Later, he would be placed as a starter in the match of the twelfth day of the qualifying round against Colombia, a match in which his team won 1-0 at the Cachamay Stadium.

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