Joaquín Piquerez

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Piquerez and the second or maternal family name is Moreira.

Joaquín Piquerez
Piquerez with Palmeiras in 2024
Personal information
Full name Joaquín Piquerez Moreira[1]
Date of birth (1998-08-24) 24 August 1998 (age 27)[1]
Place of birth Montevideo, Uruguay
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position Left-back
Team information
Current team
 Palmeiras
Number 22
Youth career
Defensor Sporting
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2019 Defensor Sporting 25 (0)
2019–2020 River Plate Montevideo 20 (2)
2020–2021 Peñarol 37 (0)
2021– Palmeiras 159 (10)
International career‡
2014–2015 Uruguay U17 17 (0)
2019 Uruguay U22 4 (0)
2020 Uruguay U23 9 (0)
2021– Uruguay 18 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 13 December 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 19 November 2025

Joaquín Piquerez Moreira (born 24 August 1998) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as an left-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Palmeiras and the Uruguay national team.

Club career

Defensor Sporting

Piquerez played in the youth ranks of the club Defensor Sporting, with which he debuted in the Uruguayan First Division on March 19, 2017 with Eduardo Acevedo as coach in a match against River Plate that ended in a 1–0 victory. In May, he won the Apertura tournament.[2]

River Plate

Piquerez joined River Plate Montevideo, signing a two-year contract.[3] He made his debut for his new club on July 14, in a 0–0 draw with Progreso in the Torneo Intermedio. In August, in the same tournament, Piquerez scored his first goal for River Plate in a 1–1 draw against Nacional. River Plate reached the final of the Torneo Intermedio in September, where they drew 2–2 with Liverpool, with Piquerez scoring River's first goal. However, Liverpool won 5–4 on penalties, and River Plate finished as runners-up.[4]

Peñarol

In January 2020, Peñarol officially announced the signing of Piquerez. The club paid River Plate €300,000 (just under R$1.5 million at the time) for the transfer, and the left-back signed a three-year contract.[5] Piquerez joined the Peñarol squad on February 12 and made his debut in a 1–2 loss to Defensor Sporting, forUruguayan Championship.[6]

Palmeiras

Piquerez for Palmeiras in 2022

On 31 July 2021, Brazilian club Palmeiras announced the signing of Piquerez on a permanent deal until 31 December 2025.[7] In November, Piquerez won his first title with Palmeiras. He started in the Copa Libertadores de 2021 final against Flamengo, which Palmeiras won 2–1.[8]

In the 2022 season, Piquerez established himself as team absolute starter. At the beginning of the year, he won the 2022 Recopa Sudamericana and the 2022 Campeonato Paulista. Three months later, in July, he scored his first goal for Palmeiras, opening the scoring in the second leg of the round of 16, against São Paulo, for the Copa do Brasil.[9] In the same match, the full-back completed 100 appearances for Palmeiras for Palmeiras.[10] In November, Piquerez won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2022 and was named to Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Team of the Year. That following season, he won the 2023 Campeonato Paulista and the 2023 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, being again a pillar of the team.[11]

International career

Piquerez is a former Uruguayan youth international.[12] He was part of national team squads at 2015 South American U-17 Championship and 2019 Pan American Games.[13] In December 2019, he was called up to under-23 national team for 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament.[14]

Piquerez received maiden call-up to senior team on 28 May 2021 for FIFA World Cup qualification matches. However, he got injured the following day and was replaced by Camilo Cándido.[15] He made his senior team debut on 2 September 2021 in a 1–1 draw against Peru.[16]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 20 September 2025[17]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Paulista Copa do Brasil Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Palmeiras 2021 Série A 12 0 — — 4[a] 0 2[b] 0 18 0
2022 26 0 11 0 3 1 8[a] 0 2[c] 0 50 1
2023 29 3 13 1 5 1 10[a] 3 1[d] 0 58 8
2024 16 2 14 1 2 0 6[a] 1 1[d] 0 39 4
2025 26 3 8 0 4 0 8[a] 1 0 0 46 4
Career total 109 8 46 2 14 2 38 5 6 0 211 17
  1. ^ a b c d e Appearances in Copa Libertadores
  2. ^ Appearances in FIFA Club World Cup
  3. ^ Appearances in Recopa Sudamericana
  4. ^ a b Appearances in Supercopa do Brasil

International

As of match played 18 November 2025[17]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Uruguay 2021 7 0
2023 6 0
2025 5 0
Total 18 0

Honours

Club

Defensor

Peñarol

Palmeiras

Individual

References

  1. ^ a b c "FIFA Club World Cup 2025™ – Squad List: Palmeiras (BRA)" (PDF). FIFA. 4 July 2025. p. 25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
  2. ^ BARROSO FURTADO, ENRICO (2023). O IMPACTO DA ECONOMIA NO FUTEBOL ARGENTINO EM COMPARAÇÃO AO FUTEBOL BRASILEIRO (Thesis). Faculdades Catolicas. doi:10.17771/pucrio.acad.70828.
  3. ^ Esmoris Isoleri, Manuel Alfonso (29 March 2012). "Barrio Peñarol: moderno, industrial, singular. Patrimonialización y reutilización". Labor e Engenho. 6 (1): 73–88. doi:10.20396/lobore.v6i1.20. ISSN 2176-8846.
  4. ^ Petiteau, Natalie; Kleisl, Jean-Daniel (July 2000). "Piquerez S.A. & Ruedin S.A. Le patronat de la boite de montre dans la vallee de Delemont. L'exemple de E. Piquerez S.A. et de G. Ruedin S.A. a Bassecourt (1926-1982)". Le Mouvement Social (192): 138. doi:10.2307/3779751. ISSN 0027-2671. JSTOR 3779751.
  5. ^ Cavalcante, Luiz Ricardo (13 November 2023). "DESIGUALDADES REGIONAIS E FUTEBOL: uma análise da primeira divisão do campeonato brasileiro entre 2003 e 2019". Gestão & Regionalidade. 39 e20237996. doi:10.13037/gr.vol39.e20237996. ISSN 2176-5308.
  6. ^ Lopez Chirico, Selva (1995). Uruguai 1985-1993 (Thesis). Universidade Estadual de Campinas. doi:10.47749/t/unicamp.1995.99402.
  7. ^ "PALMEIRAS ACERTA CONTRATAÇÃO DO LATERAL URUGUAIO JOAQUÍN PIQUEREZ". 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  8. ^ Gabriel Ferreira Miranda, Andreas; Pereira Sanna, Patrícia; Marques Vilella, Rafaela (1 December 2018). "Teoria do Erro No Direito Penal Brasileiro". Colloquium Socialis. 2 (Especial 2): 456–460. doi:10.5747/cs.2018.v02.nesp2.s0320. ISSN 2526-7035.
  9. ^ Signorelli Miguel, Rebeca (2015). A escola recebe a Copa do Mundo no Brasil (Thesis). Universidade Estadual de Campinas. doi:10.47749/t/unicamp.2015.962335. hdl:20.500.12733/1627411.
  10. ^ Silva, Marco Antonio da. Por uma pedagogia do palhaço: riso, corpo jogador, transgressão e inversão (Thesis). Universidade de Sao Paulo, Agencia USP de Gestao da Informacao Academica (AGUIA).
  11. ^ NÓBREGA LA MARCA, CAIO (2018). ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA FINANCEIRA ENTRE FLAMENGO E PALMEIRAS (Thesis). Faculdades Catolicas. doi:10.17771/pucrio.acad.35167.
  12. ^ "19 - Joaquín Piquerez". Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  13. ^ "Datos del plantel panamericano de Uruguay". 29 June 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  14. ^ "Gustavo Ferreyra definió el plantel para el Torneo Preolímpico 2020". 29 December 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  15. ^ "Camilo Cándido convocado". 30 May 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  16. ^ "Joaquín Piquerez estuvo a centímetros de redondear un debut increíble". 3 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  17. ^ a b Joaquín Piquerez at Soccerway
  18. ^ FERNANDES, R. N. (1 April 2022). "GOLEIROTECA – A BIBLIOTECA DO GOLEIRO BRASILEIRO: Futebol, Futsal e Handebol". doi:10.24824/978652512799.6. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  19. ^ ""Agora é olho no olho": Cerimônia do Troféu Mesa Redonda está de volt…". 21 November 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  20. ^ Teixeira, Gabriel Amaral (11 December 2023). "Palmeiras domina seleção do Troféu Mesa Redonda, e Suárez é eleito o craque da temporada". Gazeta Esportiva (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  21. ^ Bezerra, Marcio Ferreira; Gramacho, Thiago Ghiotti (1 April 2018). "Estatísticas da Copa Libertadores da América 2017: Uma Análise da Correlação de Scouts dos Jogos da Fase Final". PODIUM Sport, Leisure and Tourism Review. 7 (1): 161–177. doi:10.5585/tlsr.v7i1.268. ISSN 2316-932X.
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