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Joaquín Botero
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Personal information
Full name Joaquín Botero Vaca
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Henan Construction
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of April 28, 2010

Joaquín Botero Vaca (born December 10, 1977 in La Paz) is a Bolivian football striker, who was the top goalscorer in world football in the 2002 season with 49 goals for Club Bolívar.[1] He currently plays for Henan Construction in the Chinese Super League.

Club career

After scoring 133 goals for Bolívar and becoming their 2nd highest goalscorer of all time[2] he left the club to play abroad.

Botero's first foreign club was Mexican side Pumas. In his first season with Pumas, the 2003 Apertura, Botero scored 3 goals in 17 games. After scoring another 3 in 9 games in the 2004 Clausura, Botero broke out in the 2004 Apertura, registering 11 goals in 19 games.

In 2006 he joined Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro of the Primera División de Argentina and in 2007 he played for Deportivo Tachira of Venezuela. After an unsuccessful stint in those two clubs, Botero returned to Bolívar as a free agent in 2008.

He joined Correcaminos UAT for the Clausura 2009 season, marking his return to Mexico.

In January 2010 he Loaned to Al Arabi Kuwait for $170000 .

International career

Since 1999, Botero was a regular player for the Bolivian national team including participations in the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup, Copa América 2001 and Copa América 2004. On April 1, 2009 Botero scored a hat-trick for Bolivia in a historic 6-1 victory over Argentina in a 2010 World cup qualifier game[3], Argentina's first loss under new manager, Maradona. On May 15, 2009, he surprisingly announced the end of his era with the national team, putting as an excuse that motivation wasn't there any more [4]. In his ten years playing for Bolivia, Botero earned a total of 48 caps and scored 20 goals becoming the highest scorer in the national team's history[5].

Honours

Club

Individual

References

  1. ^ rsssf: World league topscorers
  2. ^ Bolívar all time topscorers
  3. ^ Fifa.com:Argentina hit for six in Bolivia
  4. ^ No hay vuelta atrás eldeber.com.bo
  5. ^ Bolivia - Record International Players


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