Place of birth San Lorenzo, Ecuador Years Team Height 1.79 m Career start 2001 | Playing position Apps (Gls) Weight 71 kg Current team L.D.U. Quito (Forward) | |
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Full name Félix Alexander Borja Valencia Date of birth (1983-04-02) April 2, 1983 (age 33) Similar Cristian Mora, Edwin Villafuerte, Carlos Tenorio, Iván Kaviedes, Armando Wila | ||
Félix Alexander Borja Valencia (born April 2, 1983) is an Ecuadorian footballer, who plays for El Nacional in the Ecuadorian Serie A.
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Club career
Felix Borja previously played for El Nacional of Ecuador. His transfer to Greek league champions Olympiakos made him the first Ecuadorian player to play for a Greek team.
Borja was declared Copa Libertadores de América's joint top goalscorer two months after his transfer to Olympiacos.
He is nicknamed the "kangaroo", or "the cobra of Ecuador", for the spring in his jump. His height makes it easy to score goals for his club and country.
Due to his sub-standard performances for Olympiacos in his first season, as well as the fact that he occupies a non-EU player spot at his current team's roster, Olympiacos had the desire at the end of the 2006–07 season to sell him or loan him for the upcoming season. Due to that decision by the club, Borja was loaned out to German club Mainz 05 for the 2007–08 season. At the end of the season, Mainz signed him permanently. Having limited success, especially after Mainz earned promotion to the Bundesliga, he transferred to the Mexican club Puebla In the 2011–12 Apertaura season, he was transferred to Pachuca F.C..
On 28 December 2015, Hong Kong giants South China announced the capture of the player via Facebook.
On 24 January 2017, Felix Borja signed a contract with El Nacional. Previously he was a free agent.
International career
He was included in the Ecuador for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, despite his relative inexperience. He played in several of the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches for the Ecuadorian national team, including the game against Uruguay which confirmed their passage to Germany 06. He made only one appearance for his country on the world's biggest stage against Germany, where they were defeated 3–0.
He featured in friendlies after the FIFA World Cup, even scoring against Brazil in an October 2006 friendly in Sweden. He was called up to Ecuador for the 2007 Copa América, and started in the final group game against Brazil.