Jonathan Alonso Moya Aguilar (born 6 January 1992) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club Hyderabad.
Club career
Deportivo Saprissa
Born in Monteverde, Puntarenas, Moya graduated with Deportivo Saprissa's youth setup, and made his senior debuts with the reserves in Segunda División, on 3 February 2010, in a match against Cariari.
Santos de Guápiles
Jonathan was loaned out to Santos de Guápiles in early 2012, and made his debut in the Primera División in a 1–0 home victory over Herediano on 15 January. He scored his first two goals for the team on 1 March, netting a brace in a 0–3 away win against Orión. In the competition of Verano, Jonathan completed sixteen matches, with two goals and provided three assists. Although his team lost their match 1–0 for the semifinals against Deportivo Saprissa, they qualified to the last round after winning the second leg with the same score, this one due to the advantage earned by finishing second in the regular season. Moya participated on the two matches of the final definition against Herediano, and became runner-up after losing the two series.
Once the preseason had concluded, Jonathan debuted in the Campeonato de Invierno on 26 July 2012 in a 2–0 away loss. He scored his first goal on 18 August over San Carlos. The attacker finished the league with fourteen appearances and two goals in total. Then he returned to Saprissa.
Deportivo Saprissa
Being part of Saprissa, he spent the first half of 2013 with the team of Segunda División. He made his debut on 19 January and scored two goals –one of them from the penalty spot– in a 3–2 victory over Osa. On 24 March, Moya made two goals to Coto Brus. The forward ended his participation with ten appearances and gained 847' minutes of play.
Generación Saprissa
His team's name changed to Generación Saprissa in early August 2013, and Moya was chosen by the coach Enrique Rivers to face this season. He started with two goals at the 8th and 77th minutes, in the victory 1–4 over Juventud Escazuceña at the Nicolás Masís. During this period, Jonathan became the top scorer by netting ten goals. His team lost the semifinal series against AS Puma.
C. S. Uruguay de Coronado
While Moya was playing with the second category team, the first squad negotiated with the player Marvin Angulo, from Uruguay de Coronado. Once Angulo was bought on 16 December 2013, the deal established that two member from Saprissa would move to Coronado on loan, so Moya and his team partner Dylan Flores were chosen to close the transfer. Initially, he signed for six months, with a possible extension for the same period of time.
Jonathan debuted for Uruguay on January 11, 2014, reaching the total number of minutes in 1–3 loss against Herediano. His first goal with the "aurinegros" was on 9 February over Pérez Zeledón. Then, Moya scored six goals in three consecutive matches, by hitting the net two times each game over Limón (2–1), Puntarenas (0–2), and Belén (3–0). He ended the season with a tally of ten goals. As a result of his scoring performance, Jonathan was awarded in late May as the top scorer, sharing the prize with the Uruguayan Fabrizio Ronchetti and the Argentine Lucas Gómez.
He was the best player of the team in the 2014 Torneo de Copa (Costa Rican cup), by hitting a net on July 20 over Herediano.
As the start of the Campeonato de Invierno, Moya scored the equaliser 1–1 at the "Fello" Meza against Cartaginés, but it was not enough on the 3–1 loss. He finished the competition with seventeen matches played and reached nine goals.
Deportivo Saprissa
Due to his performance with Uruguay, on 24 December 2014, his team Deportivo Saprissa decided to bring Moya back in order to face the following championship. He was presented in press conference on 6 January 2015 –same day of his birthday–, by the financial manager Galeano Luconi, along with the other new players Néstor Monge and Andrés Imperiale.
Moya finally made his official debut for the first squad on January 19, 2015, in a match against AS Puma at the Ricardo Saprissa, playing 36' minutes in the 3–2 victory. In the following game, he scored with the head his first goal to give his team the triumph 1–0 over Limón. Jonathan would conclude the season league with eighteen goals. On 29 June, it was revealed that the club Empoli from Italy would have been interested on the forward, however there was not a formal deal.