Claudio Morel

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Claudio Morel
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Morel in the national jersey of Paraguay (2010)
Personnel
Surname Claudio Marcelo Morel Rodríguez
birthday 2nd February 1978
place of birth Asunción ,  Paraguay
size 175 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1995-1998 CA San Lorenzo
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2004 CA San Lorenzo 135 (2)
2004-2010 Boca Juniors 149 (1)
2010–2012 Deportivo La Coruña 33 (0)
2012-2014 CA Independiente 51 (1)
2014 Club Sol de America 14 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1999-2010 Paraguay 35 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

Claudio Marcelo Morel Rodríguez (born February 2, 1978 in Asunción , Paraguay ) is a former Paraguayan football player. The defender began his career in Argentina with CA San Lorenzo de Almagro . In 2007 he won the Copa Libertadores with the Boca Juniors , and he also won the Copa Sudamericana four times , or its predecessor, the Copa Mercosur . With the national team he took part in the Copa America in 2007 and in the World Cup in 2010 . In 2010 he joined Deportivo La Coruña but returned to Argentina in 2012 and signed with CA Independiente . He ended his career in 2014.

Career

The son of Eugenio Morel - a Paraguayan national player who grew up in Argentina and who won the South American Cup of National Teams , the Copa America in 1979 - began playing football in 1995 in the youth team of the top Bonaren club CA San Lorenzo de Almagro .

From 1998 to 2004, Morel, who was mainly positioned as a left defender or central defender, played in the fighting team of the club with which he won the 2001 Argentine Championship Clausura and the Copa Mercosur . In 2002 he won the first successor competition of Mercosur, the Copa Sudamericana, with San Lorenzo . In 1999 he also made his debut in the Paraguayan national soccer team .

In mid-2004 Morel moved to Boca Juniors , with whom he succeeded at the Copa Sudamericana that same year. 2005 also saw the only successful title defense in this competition so far. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 he also won one of the Argentine semi-series championships with the Boca Juniors. The highlight, however, was winning the Copa Libertadores in 2007 with two clear victories in the finals against the Brazilian club Gremio Porto Alegre .

In 2007 he took part with the national team at the Copa America in Venezuela , which was ranked sixth there statistically. As a 32-year-old, he took part in a soccer World Cup for the first time in 2010 and was part of the regular line-up of Paraguay in South Africa .

In 2008 he was named Paraguayan Footballer of the Year .

After his contract with Boca Juniors expired, Morel moved to Deportivo La Coruña in August 2010 for free in the Spanish Primera División . He signed a two-year contract. After two years in Spain, he returned to Argentina in 2012, where he played for CA Independiente until 2014 . At the end of the 2012/13 season he was relegated with his team from the Primera División. In 2014 he moved to Club Sol de América in Paraguay, where he ended his career at the end of the year.

titles and achievements

Web links and individual references

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ deportivo-la-coruna.com: MOREL SIGNS FOR DEPOR
personal data
SURNAME Morel, Claudio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morel Rodríguez, Claudio Marcelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Paraguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Asunción , Paraguay