Edgar Barreto

Edgar Barreto
Personnel
Surname	Édgar Osvaldo Barreto Cáceres
birthday	July 15, 1984
place of birth	Asunción ,  Paraguay
size	178 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2002-2003	Cerro Porteño	26 0(4)
2004-2007	NEC Nijmegen	95 (10)
2007-2009	Reggina Calcio	68 0(5)
2009-2011	Atalanta Bergamo	33 0(2)
2011-2015	US Palermo	122 0(7)
2015–	Sampdoria Genoa	102 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2004-2011	Paraguay	60 0(3)
2004	Paraguay Olympia	6 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2018/19

Édgar Osvaldo Barreto Cáceres (born July 15, 1984 in Asunción ) is a Paraguayan football player . He has played in Italy for over ten years and has been under contract with Sampdoria Genoa since 2015 .

Barreto completed 60 international matches for the Paraguayan national soccer team and took part in the 2006 and 2010 soccer world championships . With the Olympic team, he won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games .

Career

society

Barreto was already considered a great talent in his youth and was on the watch list of international clubs as a youth player. After only 26 games in the first division of Paraguay at the top club Cerro Porteño from Asunción, he got a four-year contract with the Dutch honorary division NEC Nijmegen . There the variable midfielder, who sometimes storms on the right wing, became an important regular player. For the 2007/08 season he moved to Reggina Calcio .

After two seasons at Reggina, in which Barreto made the leap to high achievers, he was signed by Atalanta Bergamo in July 2009 . After he played four league games for Atalanta until the end of October 2009, he suffered a foot injury on October 28, 2009 in the away game against Livorno. As a result, he was out for around four months. Even after relegation to the Serie B at the end of the 2009/10 season, he remained true to Atalanta and managed with his team immediate resurgence . He then moved to league rivals US Palermo , with whom he also managed to return to Serie A immediately after relegation.

Barreto has been playing for Sampdoria Genoa since 2015 .

National team

Édgar Barreto went through the youth selections of his country from the U17 up with great success. In 2001 and 2003 he represented Paraguay at the Junior World Championships . At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he won the silver medal with the Olympic selection. In the same year he also made his debut in the senior national team . In Paraguay's squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany , he was the second youngest player in his country and played in two World Cup games. In 2010 he again took part in the World Cup, and was three times on the field at Paraguay, with the quarter-finals best performing at a World Cup. In the quarter-finals against Spain (0-1) he played from the start.

Barreto also took part in a Copa América three times from 2004 to 2011 . In 2007 he scored the goal to make it 1-0 in a 3-1 group game against the USA. In 2011 he finished second with Paraguay. In the final against Uruguay (0: 3), he was not used.

The last of his 60 international matches completed Barreto in 2011. He was able to score three goals for the national team.

Title / Achievements

• Silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics with the Paraguayan soccer team
• Italian second division champions : 2010/11 with Atalanta Bergamo and 2013/14 with US Palermo
• Runner-up at the 2011 Copa America

Personal

His brother Diego is also a professional soccer player.

Web links

• Édgar Barreto in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Edgar Barreto in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Bet statistics on aic.football.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EDGAR BARRETO IN NERAZZURRO ( Memento of July 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Édgar Barreto out quattro mesi ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )