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.

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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)

Origin

Stuttgart, Stuttgart Government Region, Germany

Height

192 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

• Xhttps://x.com/joselumato9
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joselu
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134729

Tags

• Stuttgart Government Region
• association football player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.