Juan Manuel Peña

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Juan Manuel Peña
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Personal information
Full name Juan Manuel Peña Montaño
Date of birth January 17, 1973 (1973-01-17) (age 36)
Place of birth    Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Defender
Youth career
Tahuichi Academy
Senior career1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1990–1993
1993–1995
1995–2004
2004–2007
2007–2009
Blooming
Independiente Santa Fe
Valladolid
Villarreal
Celta Vigo
048 (0)
062 (0)
249 (0)
056 (1)
033 (0)   
National team
1991–2009 Bolivia 085 (1)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Juan Manuel Peña Montaño (born January 17, 1973 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a former Bolivian footballer, who played mainly as a central defender.

The vast majority of his professional career was spent in Spain, where he played a total of 14 years for three teams.

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[edit] Club career

Peña played for Club Blooming in his country and Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia, before moving to Spain in 1995. At Real Valladolid, he was a defensive stalwart for nine seasons, leaving for Villarreal CF upon his first team's 2004 relegation.[1]

At Villarreal, Peña figured less prominently, but managed to score a rare goal, in a 3–0 home success over Málaga CF, on December 19, 2004. After just six league appearances during 2006–07, he switched to Celta de Vigo, in the second level.

Following two seasons of intermittent use, Peña retired in mid-November 2009 aged 36, not wishing to pursue his career anymore, after careful deliberation.

[edit] International career

Upon his debut for the Bolivia national team in 1991 (aged 18), Peña went on to became one of its most capped players and team captain.

With over 80 international matches,[2] he played a FIFA World Cup game, against Spain in 1994 (1–3), also appearing in five Copa América editions.

Peña scored only once for Bolivia, in a friendly match against Honduras played in Washington, on October 11, 2003. In his penultimate appearance, on April 1, 2009, he helped to the home demolition of Argentina, 6–1 in La Paz for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.

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