
Photo: JuanJoséLP from Alajuela, Costa Rica / CC BY-SA 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
What draws me to Giovanni Clunie is the quiet grit of his path. A Costa Rican forward born in Cartago who has plied his trade not in glamorous leagues but with Japanese provincial sides like ReinMeer Aomori and Zweigen Kanazawa, he embodies the journeyman striker who chases goals far from home. At 192 cm he is a genuine target man, and there is something deeply admirable about a player adapting to a foreign language and culture just to keep scoring. Costa Rica punches above its weight in football, and Clunie carries a slice of that national pride into every match he plays in Japan.
Overview
Giovanni Clunie (born 20 December 1994) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a forward for ReinMeer Aomori. He used to play for Zweigen Kanazawa.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Giovanni Clunie
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョバンニ・クルーニー
- Reading
- じょばんに・くるーにー
- Born
- December 20, 1975 (age 50)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Rabbit
- Origin
- San Rafael, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 192 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Association football player — see all → · More people from Costa Rica →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.