Joselu

Joselu is one of those players who spent years grinding through the lower and mid tiers of Spanish and English football — Stoke, Newcastle, Deportivo, Espanyol — the kind of journeyman career that makes you wonder if the big stage ever comes. Then, at 33, Real Madrid called, and he answered in the most ridiculous fashion: two stoppage-time headers against Bayern Munich in the 2024 Champions League semi-final that sent the Bernabéu absolutely delirious. I've watched a lot of football, and that moment felt like something out of a movie script nobody would greenlight. He's not a glamour striker, never has been, but that's exactly what makes his story so compelling — pure persistence paying off at the highest possible moment.

Name (English)

Joselu

Name (Japanese)

ホセ・ルイス・サンマルティン・マト

Reading

ほせ・るいす・さんまるてぃん・まと

Born

March 27, 1990 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

Origin

Stuttgart, Stuttgart Government Region, Germany

Height

192 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/joselumato9
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%88

Tags

• Stuttgart Government Region
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.