Josué Andrés Abarca Valverde (born 4 January 2000) is a Costa Rican footballer who plays as a winger.
[2] He started playing football at the age of 10 at the local club Pueblo Nuevo de Cajón FC.
[3] After a game against Municipal Pérez Zeledón in 2011, where Abarca scored three goals, he got a call from the club and ended up joining them.
In the summer 2016, former Carmelita manager, Guilherme Farinha, brought 16-year old Abarca to UCR on a loan deal for the 2016–17 season.
However, he returned to Costa Rica after one year with only playing official games for the Mexican clubs U-20 team.
Abarca also played for Santos Laguna's first team in a pre-season friendly game in the United States.