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Esteban Obiang

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Esteban Orozco
Obiang with Equatorial Guinea in 2022
Personal information
Full name Esteban Orozco Fernández[1]
Birth name Esteban Obiang Obono[2]
Date of birth (1998-05-07) 7 May 1998 (age 28)
Place of birth Zaragoza, Spain
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Positions
Team information
Current team
 Haiphong
Youth career
2011–2016 Utrera
2016–2017 Betis
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016 Utrera 7 (0)
2017–2018 Betis B 3 (0)
2018 → Utrera (loan) 14 (0)
2018–2019 Utrera 15 (1)
2019–2021 Ibiza 1 (0)
2019–2021 → Sant Rafel (loan) 41 (3)
2021–2022 Antequera 13 (0)
2022–2023 Chindia Târgoviște 27 (1)
2023–2026 Argeș Pitești 48 (2)
2026 Unirea Slobozia 13 (0)
2026– Haiphong 0 (0)
International career‡
2017– Equatorial Guinea 47 (1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18 May 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of 31 December 2025

Esteban Orozco Fernández (born Esteban Obiang Obono, 7 May 1998), also known simply as Esteban, is a professional footballer who plays as a defender or a defensive midfielder for V.League 1 club Haiphong.[3] Born in Spain, he plays for the Equatorial Guinea national team.[4]

Originally registered in the Spanish football competitions with his Equatorial Guinean biological parents' surnames (Obiang Obono),[5] Orozco later replaced them with the ones from his Spanish adoptive parents (Orozco Fernández).

Early life

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Esteban was born in Zaragoza. His biological mother died from complications during his birth. Then, his grandmother and his aunt took care of him. When he was only 22 months old, he was adopted by a Spanish family from Utrera, where he would spend most of his life. He considers himself as a person from Utrera.[6]

Club career

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Esteban made his senior debut with CD Utrera on 7 February 2016, in a 1–1 away tie against CD Alcalá.[7][8] He finished that season having played a total of 7 Tercera División matches.[9] Then, he moved to the youth team of Real Betis Balompié.[10]

Esteban was renewed by Betis and promoted to its reserve team.[2] He made his Segunda División B debut on 25 November 2017, in a 1–4 away win against FC Cartagena.[11] On 25 January 2018, he returned to Utrera, loaned by Betis.[12]

International career

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Esteban made his international debut for Equatorial Guinea on 9 October 2017, in a 3–1 victory over Mauritius in a friendly match. He came on as a second-half substitute for Diosdado Mbele.[13] On 16 January 2022, he help his national team to defeat Algeria during the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations by scoring the lone goal of the match.

In January 2024, he took part in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.

Career statistics

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International

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As of match played 31 December 2025[14]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Equatorial Guinea 201710
201810
201930
202020
202140
202271
202360
2024130
2025100
Total471
Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Esteban goal.[14]
List of international goals scored by Esteban Obiang
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
116 January 2022Japoma Stadium, Douala, Cameroon Algeria1–01–02021 Africa Cup of Nations

Honours

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Argeș Pitești

References

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  1. ↑ "Player Details". CAF. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 "El canterano del C. D. Utrera Esteban Obiang renueva con el Real Betis y realizará la pretemporada con el equipo de Segunda B". Utrera Web (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Esteban Orozco, otro cedido de la UD Ibiza al Sant Rafel" (in Spanish). Diario de Ibiza. 30 July 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  4. ↑ "El jugador de fútbol afincado en Utrera, Esteban Obiang, convocado por la selección absoluta de Guinea Ecuatorial". Utrera Web (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "DHJ (4) - Resolución" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "La historia de Esteban Orozco, un futbolista utrerano con origen en Guinea Ecuatorial" (in Spanish). Utrera Digital. 16 December 2018. Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  7. ↑ Ficha Partido; RFAF, 7 February 2016 (in Spanish)
  8. ↑ Ruiz, Bernardo (2 April 2016). "La semilla del éxito futuro del Utrera". El Decano Deportivo (in Spanish). El Correo de Andalucía. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  9. ↑ Estadística de Jugador; RFAF (in Spanish)
  10. ↑ "El CD Utrera continúa con los partidos preparatorios de cara a la próxima temporada" (in Spanish). Utrera al día. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "Una pesadilla para olvidarse del liderato" (in Spanish). La Verdad. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  12. ↑ "El canterano utrerano del Real Betis Esteban Orozco regresa en calidad de cedido al C.D. Utrera". Utrera Web (in Spanish). 25 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  13. ↑ "Equatorial Guinea vs. Mauritius (3:1)".
  14. 1 2 "Esteban Obiang". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
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