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Getting to Know: Barcelona Left-Back Junior Firpo

Full name: Héctor Junior Firpo Adames
Squad No: 24
Position: Left-back
Date of birth: 22 August 1996
Place of birth: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Height: 1.84 m (6 ft)
Weight: 78 kg (172 lbs)

Club career

Junior Firpo was born in the Dominican Republic, but started playing organized football after his family moved to Spain, to Benalmádena, Malaga, when Firpo was six years old. In his early years he went through the youth ranks of Atlético Benamiel, Tiro Pichón and Puerto Malagueño, before settling 140 miles northwest of his Spanish hometown in Seville, in the academy of Real Betis.