Clemente Rodríguez
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| Full name | Clemente Juan Rodríguez | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | July 31, 1981 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Full back | |||||||||||
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| Current club | Boca Juniors | |||||||||||
| Number | 3 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| –2000 | Los Andes | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | |||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Boca Juniors | 95 | (5) | |||||||||
| 2004–2009 | Spartak Moscow | 71 | (3) | |||||||||
| 2007 | → Boca Juniors (loan) | 14 | (2) | |||||||||
| 2007–2008 | → Espanyol (loan) | 17 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Estudiantes | 27 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2010– | Boca Juniors | 36 | (4) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Argentina U23 | ? | (?) | |||||||||
| 2003– | Argentina | 13 | (1) | |||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:23, June 25, 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Clemente Juan Rodríguez (born July 31, 1981 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football who plays for Boca Juniors in the Argentine Primera División. He is right footed, and can play in both sides as full back.
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[edit] Characteristics
He is a left-back who can also operate down the right.
[edit] Career
[edit] Club career
Rodríguez made his league debut for Boca Juniors in a 2–1 away defeat to Chacarita Juniors on 10 December 2000. He went on to establish himself as an important player in the Boca Juniors team that won a host of national and international tournament in the early 2000s. In 2003 he was part of the Boca team that won the Intercontinental Cup.
In 2004 he signed for Spartak Moscow, but returned to Boca on loan for the 2007 Clausura (spring championship). For the 2007-08 season he joined Spanish side Espanyol on loan.[1]
In August 2009 he returned to Argentina to play for Estudiantes de La Plata. Subsequently, in August 2010, he returned for a third period with Boca Juniors.[2]
[edit] National team
Rodríguez was part of the gold medal winning Argentine Olympic football team at the 2004 Summer Olympics and has played for the full Argentina national team on an infrequent basis since 2003. He was called by coach Diego Maradona to play in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[3]
[edit] National team statistics
| Argentina national team | ||
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| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 2003 | 4 | 0 |
| 2004 | 3 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 4 | 0 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 15 | 1 |
[edit] Achievements
[edit] Club
[edit] National team
- Summer Olympics Gold Medal: 1
[edit] References
- ^ "El Espanyol ficha a Clemente Rodríguez por dos millones" (in Spanish). Marca. 2007-06-22. http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/futbol/1a_division/espanyol/es/desarrollo/1008330.html. Retrieved 2007-06-22.
- ^ "Otra caricia para Borghi: firmó Clemente Rodríguez" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 2010-08-02. http://www.tycsports.com/notas/57421-otra-caricia-borghi-firmo-clemente-rodriguez. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
- ^ "¡Acá están, estos son!" (in Spanish). Olé. 2010-05-19. http://www.ole.com.ar/mundial/argentina/Maradona_0_264573643.html. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
- ^ National Football Teams
[edit] External links
- Guardian statistics
- Profile at UEFA.com
- Argentine primera statistics at Futbol XXI (Spanish)
- Rodriguez, Clemente Juan Historia de Boca.com (Spanish)
- Clemente Rodríguez at National-Football-Teams.com
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- 1981 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Buenos Aires
- Argentine people of Spanish descent
- Argentine footballers
- Boca Juniors footballers
- FC Spartak Moscow players
- RCD Espanyol footballers
- Estudiantes de La Plata footballers
- Association football central defenders
- Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 2004 Copa América players
- 2010 FIFA World Cup players
- Olympic footballers of Argentina
- Olympic gold medalists for Argentina
- Argentina international footballers
- Argentine expatriate footballers
- Russian Premier League players
- La Liga footballers
- Primera División Argentina players
- Expatriate footballers in Russia
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Olympic medalists in football
