Apolinor Jiménez

Apolinor Jiménez
Personnel
Surname	Apolinor Jiménez Iriarte
birthday	January 20, 1944
place of birth	Paraguarí ,  Paraguay
size	1.85 m
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
1959-1961	Sudamérica de Paraguarí
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1962-1973	Olimpia de Asunción
1973-1975	Cruz Azul
1975-1977	Puebla FC
1978	Independiente Medellin
1979	Captain Figari
1980-1984	Olimpia de Asunción
1985	San Lorenzo de Almagro
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1968-1969	Paraguay
1 Only league games are given.

Apolinor Jiménez (born January 20, 1944 in Paraguarí ) is a former Paraguayan football player on the position of goalkeeper . He has won seven league titles (six in Paraguay and one in Mexico ) during his playing career .

Life

Jiménez went through the junior area of ​​his home club Sudamérica de Paraguarí and received his first professional contract in early 1962 with Club Olimpia , where he was under contract in two stages for more than 15 years and with which he won a total of six championship titles.

In 1973 he moved to the Mexican Primera División , where he was under contract first with CD Cruz Azul and then with Puebla FC .

After a year-long stopover at the Colombian first division club Independiente Medellín , Jiménez returned to his home country, where he was under contract in 1979 with the second division team Capitán Figarí , with whom he immediately made promotion to the first division. He spent the next five seasons again at Club Olimpia before ending his active career in 1985 with the Argentine first division club San Lorenzo .

Since 2001 Jiménez has been working as a goalkeeping coach in the youth division of Club Libertad .

successes

• Paraguayan champions (6): 1962, 1965, 1968, 1971, 1980 and 1982 (each with Olimpia de Asunción)
• Mexican Champion (1): 1973/74 (with Cruz Azul)

Web links

• ABC Digital: Uno de los grandes de los años 60 y 70 (Spanish; article from March 16, 2009)