_-_Resim1_(cropped).jpg) Valencia with Fenerbahçe in 2021 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Enner Remberto Valencia Lastra[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 4 November 1989[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Esmeraldas, Ecuador | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Forward, winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Internacional | ||
| Number | 13 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2005–2008 | Caribe Junior | ||
| 2008–2010 | Emelec | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2013 | Emelec | 130 | (27) |
| 2013–2014 | Pachuca | 23 | (18) |
| 2014–2017 | West Ham United | 54 | (8) |
| 2016–2017 | → Everton (loan) | 21 | (3) |
| 2017–2020 | Tigres UANL | 95 | (21) |
| 2020–2023 | Fenerbahçe | 90 | (49) |
| 2023– | Internacional | 34 | (13) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2012– | Ecuador | 89 | (41) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:49, 1 June 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:31, 4 July 2024 (UTC) | |||
Enner Remberto Valencia Lastra (born 4 November 1989) is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Internacional and captains the Ecuador national team.[2]
He previously played for Emelec in Ecuador, where he won the 2013 Ecuadorian Serie A and was awarded the Copa Sudamericana Golden Boot in 2013. Valencia also played for Pachuca in Mexico, being awarded the Liga MX Golden Boot in the 2014 Clausura tournament. He joined English club West Ham United for an estimated £12 million in July 2014, almost breaking the club's signing record. In August 2016, Valencia went out on loan to Everton for the season, before being sold to Mexican club Tigres UANL in July 2017. At Tigres, he won Liga MX's 2017 Apertura and 2019 Clausura tournaments, and finished runner-up in the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League, winning the latter competition's Golden Boot. In August 2020, Valencia signed for Fenerbahçe in Turkey and won the Turkish Cup in his final season before joining Brazilian club Internacional in mid-2023.
At the international level, Valencia has earned over 80 caps for Ecuador since his debut in 2012. He represented the nation at the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and 2022, and the Copa América in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2024. Widely regarded as one of the best Ecuadorian players of all time, Valencia is Ecuador's Ecuador national football team#Top goalscorers Second all-time top goalscorer with 41 goals, after Jaime Ivan Kaviedes with 43 and holds the record for the most goals scored in the World Cup for his national team, with six.
- ^ a b c "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™: List of Players: Ecuador" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 10. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2022.
- ^ "Enner Valencia at FIFA.com". FIFA. Archived from the original on 21 June 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2014.