Edison Giménez

Edison Giménez
Personal information
Full name	Mario Edison Giménez
Date of birth	5 April 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth	Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Itagüí
Number	9
Senior career*
Years	Team
2004–2006	2 de Mayo
2007	Colo-Colo
2007–2008	Olimpia
2009	Deportivo Pereira
2010	Independiente Medellín
2010	Deportivo Cali
2011	Sportivo Luqueño
2011	Imbabura SC
2012	La Equidad
2013–	Itagüí
International career‡
2006	Paraguay
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 April 2013; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 February 2007

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Mario Edison Giménez (born 5 April 1981 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan footballer that currently plays for Colombian Primera A side Itagüí as striker.

He began his football career at 2 de Mayo of the first tier of his country, in where scored 25 goals in 31 appearances during two seasons. In January 2007, was sold to Chilean Primera División club Colo-Colo, for a US$400.000 transfer fee.^[1] After a regular pass at the Chilean club that was runner-up of the 2006 Copa Sudamericana, he joined to Paraguayan powerhouse Club Olimpia along with his countrymen Gilberto Velásquez in June, after of proclaiming champion of the Apertura Tournament.

In January 2009, he traveled to Colombia and signed for Deportivo Pereira of the country's first tier, after having also spells at Independiente Medellín and Deportivo Cali of the same country. In 2011, he returned to Paraguay and joined to Sportivo Luqueño, after moving to Ecuadorian side Imbabura SC. The next season, Giménez signed for La Equidad.

Giménez also represented to the Paraguayan national football team in 2006, playing after of the FIFA World Cup of that year. He scored one international goal in a 3–2 defeat with Chile at Estadio Sausalito during a friendly match.

International goals

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	15 November 2006	Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile	Chile	3–2	3–2	Friendly

Honours

Club

Colo-Colo

Primera División de Chile (1): 2007 Apertura

Deportivo Cali

Copa Colombia (1): 2010

References

^ "Colo Colo to sign Paraguan forward Edison Gimenez". People's Daily. December 25, 2006. Retrieved March 25, 2018.

[1] "Colo Colo to sign Paraguan forward Edison Gimenez". People's Daily. December 25, 2006. Retrieved March 25, 2018.

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