Rubén Maldonado
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Rubén Dario Maldonado Brizuela | ||
Date of birth | 29 April 1979 | ||
Place of birth | Asunción, Paraguay | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Central Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Nacional | ||
Number | 29 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1997–1999 | Olimpia | 64 | (10) |
2000–2005 | Venezia | 94 | (6) |
2001–2002 | → Cosenza (loan) | 12 | (0) |
2005–2008 | Napoli | 67 | (2) |
2008 | → Chievo (loan) | 3 | (0) |
2008–2010 | Gimnasia La Plata | 67 | (4) |
2010–2011 | Olimpia | 39 | (2) |
2012–2013 | Sportivo Carapeguá | 44 | (4) |
2013–2014 | Boca Unidos | 54 | (0) |
2015 | Guarani | 34 | (1) |
2016– | Nacional | 2 | (0) |
International career | |||
1999 | Paraguay U20 | 4 | (1) |
1999– | Paraguay | 12 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 February 2016 (UTC) |
Rubén Dario Maldonado Brizuela (born 29 April 1979 in Asunción) is a former Paraguayan football defender who last played for Nacional in the Paraguayan Primera División.
He made his Italian Serie A debut on 11 March 2000, against Bologna F.C. 1909.
Maldonado was part of the Paraguay national under-20 football team that participated in the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship he has since gone on to represent Paraguay at senior international level.
Maldonado signed for the team where he was "born in soccer", Club Olimpia. He took part of the squad in the second half of the 2010 season, the Clausura 2010 in Paraguay.
External links
[edit]- Rubén Maldonado at National-Football-Teams.com
- (in Spanish) Argentine Primera statistics
Categories:
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Paraguayan men's footballers
- Paraguay men's international footballers
- Paraguay men's under-20 international footballers
- Club Olimpia footballers
- Cosenza Calcio 1914 players
- Venezia FC players
- SSC Napoli players
- Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata footballers
- Club Sportivo Carapeguá footballers
- Boca Unidos footballers
- Club Guaraní players
- Club Nacional footballers
- Paraguayan Primera División players
- Serie A players
- Serie B players
- Argentine Primera División players
- Paraguayan expatriate men's footballers
- Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
- Men's association football defenders
- Footballers from Asunción
- Paraguayan football defender stubs