Soccer World Cup 2006 / Paraguay

This article covers the Paraguayan national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany .

qualification

Games

1st matchday

September 6, 2003, Lima / Peru , 42,000 spectators, referee: Héctor Baldassi ( ARG )

 Peru - Paraguay 4: 1 (2: 1)

Goal scorers: 0: 1 Gamarra (24th minute), 1: 1 Solano (34th), 2: 1 Mendoza (42nd), 3: 1 Soto (83rd), 4: 1 Farfán (90th)

Zegarra (Peru) and Cáceres (Paraguay)

2nd matchday

September 10, 2003, Asunción / Paraguay, 20,000 spectators, referee: Óscar Ruiz ( COL )

Paraguay - Uruguay 4: 1 (1: 1) 

Goal scorers: 0: 1 Chevanton, Ernesto (24th minute), 1: 1 Cardozo (27th), 2: 1 Paredes (54th), 3: 1 Cardozo (57th), 4: 1 Cardozo (73rd)

Abeijón and Olivera (both Uruguay)

3rd matchday

November 15, 2003, Asunción / Paraguay, 20,000 spectators, referee: José Luis Paniagua ( COL )

Paraguay - Ecuador 2: 1 (1: 0) 

Goalscorers: 1: 0 Roque Santa Cruz (28th minute), 1: 1 Méndez (59th), 2: 1 Cardozo (69th)

Gómez (Ecuador)

4th matchday

November 18, 2003, Santiago de Chile / Chile , 65,000 spectators, referee: Gustavo Méndez ( URU )

 Chile - Paraguay 0: 1 (0: 1)

Goalscorer: 0: 1 Paredes (30th minute)

Rafael Olarra and Milován Mirošević (both Chile) and Cardozo and Caniza (Paraguay)

5th matchday

March 31, 2004, Asunción / Paraguay, 40,000 spectators, referee: Óscar Ruiz ( COL )

Paraguay 0-0 Brazil 

Paredes and Toledo (both Paraguay) and Ronaldo and Silva (both Brazil)

6th matchday

June 1, 2004, Bolivia , 20,000 spectators, referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas ( BRA )

 Bolivia - Paraguay 2: 1 (1: 1)

Goal scorers: 1: 0 Cristaldo (10th minute), 1: 1 Cardozo (33.), 2: 1 Suarez (71.)

Cristaldo (Bolivia) and da Silva (Paraguay)

7th matchday

June 6, 2004, Buenos Aires / Argentina , 37,000 spectators, referee: Carlos Simon ( BRA )

 Argentina - Paraguay 0: 0

González and Tévez (both Argentina) and Caniza , Ortiz and Gamarra (all Paraguay)

Ortiz (Paraguay)

8th matchday

September 5, 2004, Asunción / Paraguay, referee: Gustavo Méndez ( URU )

Paraguay - Venezuela 1: 0 (0: 0) 

Goalscorer: 1-0 Gamarra (52nd minute)

Enciso (Paraguay) and Urdaneta and Vera (both Venezuela)

9th matchday

October 9, 2004, 25,000 spectators, referee: Horacio Elizondo ( ARG )

 Colombia - Paraguay 1: 1 (0: 0)

Goal scorers: 1: 0 Grisales (18th minute), 1: 1 Torres (77.)

Diaz and Moreno (both Colombia)

10th matchday

October 13, 2004, Asunción / Paraguay, 30,000 spectators, referee: Óscar Ruiz ( COL )

Paraguay - Peru 1: 1 (1: 0) 

Goal scorers: 1: 0 Paredes (13th minute), 1: 1 Solano (74th)

Caniza , Manzur and Villar (all Paraguay) as well as Rebosio , Soto and Cominges (all Peru)

11th matchday

November 17, 2004, Montevideo / Uruguay , Estadio Centenario , 35,000 spectators, referee: Carlos Simon ( BRA )

 Uruguay - Paraguay 1: 0 (0: 0)

Goalscorer: 1-0 Montero (78th minute)

Lugano , Montero and Delgado (all Uruguay) as well as Paredes and Bareiro (both Paraguay)

12th matchday

March 27, 2005, Quito / Ecuador , 32,400 spectators, referee: Gustavo Méndez ( URU )

 Ecuador - Paraguay 5: 2 (2: 2)

Goal scorers: 0: 1 Cardozo ( penalty , 9th minute), 0: 2 Cabanas (14th), 1: 2 Antonio Valencia (32nd), 2: 2 Méndez (45th), 3: 2 Méndez (48th) , 4: 2 Antonio Valencia (50.), 5: 2 Ayovi (penalty, 76.)

Espinoza , Tenorio and Caicedo (all Ecuador) as well as Gavilán and Caniza (both Paraguay)

13th matchday

March 30, 2005, Asunción / Paraguay, 26,000 spectators, referee: Horacio Elizondo ( ARG )

Paraguay - Chile 2: 1 (1: 0) 

Goal scorers: 1-0 Morínigo (37th minute), 2-0 Cardozo (59th), 2-1 Fuentes (72nd)

Cabañas (Paraguay) and Melendez (Chile)

14th matchday

June 5, 2005, Porto Alegre / Brazil , 45,000 spectators, referee: Martín Vázquez ( URU )

 Brazil - Paraguay 4: 1 (2: 1)

Goal scorers: 1-0 Ronaldinho ( penalty , 32nd minute), 2-0 Ronaldinho (penalty, 41st), 3-0 Zé Roberto (70th), 3-1 Roque Santa Cruz (72nd), 4-1 Robinho (82.)

Belletti , Lúcio and Roque Júnior (all Brazil) and Manzur and Paredes (both Paraguay)

Lúcio

15th matchday

June 8, 2005, Asunción / Paraguay, 5,500 spectators, referee: Gustavo Brand

Paraguay - Bolivia 4: 1 (2: 1) 

Goal scorers: 1: 0 Gamarra (17th minute), 1: 1 Galindo (30th), 2: 1 Roque Santa Cruz (45th), 3: 1 Cáceres (54th), 4: 1 Jorge Nunez (68th)

Walter Flores, Jose Alfredo Castillo (both Paraguay)

16th matchday

September 3, 2005, Asunción / Paraguay, 32,000 spectators, referee: Carlos Simon ( BRA )

Paraguay - Argentina 1: 0 (1: 0) 

Goalscorer: 1-0 Roque Santa Cruz (14th minute)

Edgar Barreto and Justo Villar (both Paraguay) and Andrés-Nicolás D´Alessandro (Argentina)

17th matchday

October 8, 2005, Maracaibo / Venezuela , 23,000 spectators, referee: Horacio Elizondo ( ARG )

 Venezuela - Paraguay 0: 1 (0: 0)

Goalscorer: 0: 1 Nelson Valdez (65th minute)

Hector Gonzalez (Venezuela) and Diego Gavilán and Carlos Gamarra (both Paraguay)

18th matchday

October 11, 2005, Asunción / Paraguay, 12,400 spectators, referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas ( BRA )

Paraguay - Colombia 0: 1 (0: 1) 

Goalscorer: 0: 1 Luis Gabriel Rey (7th minute)

José Montiel and Nelson Cuevas (both Paraguay) as well as Luis Perea, Elkin Soto, John Javier Restrepo and John Viáfara (all Colombia)

Closing table

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	35:17	34
2	Argentina	29:17	34
3	Ecuador	23:19	28
4th	Paraguay	23:23	28
5	Uruguay	23:28	25th
6th	Colombia	24:16	24
7th	Chile	18:22	22nd
8th	Venezuela	20:28	18th
9	Peru	20:28	18th
10	Bolivia	20:37	14th

The most successful goalscorers in Paraguay in qualifying were José Saturnino Cardozo (7 goals), Roque Santa Cruz (4) and Carlos Gamarra and Carlos Humberto Paredes (3 each).

Paraguayan contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Justo Villar	CA Newell's Old Boys	06/30/1977	1	0	0	0	0
12	Aldo Bobadilla	Club Libertad	04/20/1976	3	0	0	0	0
22nd	Derlis Gomez	Sportivo Luqueño	11/02/1972	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Jorge Núñez	Estudiantes de La Plata	01/22/1978	3	0	0	0	0
3	Delio Toledo	Real Zaragoza	02/10/1976	1	0	0	0	0
4th	Carlos Gamarra	SE Palmeiras	02/17/1971	3	0	0	0	0
5	Julio César Cáceres	CA River Plate	05.10.1979	3	0	0	0	0
14th	Paulo da Silva	Deportivo Toluca	02/01/1980	1	0	0	0	0
15th	Julio Manzur	FC Santos	06/22/1981	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Denis Caniza	CD Cruz Azul	08/29/1974	3	0	1	0	0
midfield player
6th	Carlos Bonet	Club Libertad	10/02/1977	2	0	0	0	0
8th	Edgar Barreto	NEC Nijmegen	07/15/1984	2	0	1	0	0
10	Roberto Acuña	Deportivo La Coruña	03/25/1972	3	0	1	0	0
11	Diego Gavilan	CA Newell's Old Boys	03/01/1980	0	0	0	0	0
13	Carlos Humberto Paredes	Reggina Calcio	07/16/1976	3	0	2	0	0
16	Cristian Riveros	Club Libertad	10/16/1982	2	0	0	0	0
17th	José Montiel	Club Olimpia	03/19/1988	0	0	0	0	0
19th	Julio dos Santos	FC Bayern Munich	05/07/1983	2	0	1	0	0
striker
7th	Salvador Cabañas	Jaguares de Chiapas	08/05/1980	0	0	0	0	0
9	Roque Santa Cruz	FC Bayern Munich	08/16/1981	3	0	0	0	0
18th	Nelson Valdez	SV Werder Bremen	11/28/1983	3	0	1	0	0
20th	Dante López *	Genoa FC 93	08/16/1983	1	0	0	0	0
23	Nelson Cuevas	CF Pachuca	01/10/1980	2	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Anibal Ruiz		12/30/1942

* Dante López was nominated for the injured José Saturnino Cardozo .

Games of Paraguay

Crew quarters

Sports school Oberhaching .

Preliminary round

• England - Paraguay 1: 0 (1: 0)

• Sweden - Paraguay 1: 0 (0: 0)

• Paraguay - Trinidad and Tobago 2-0 (1-0)

For details see Football World Cup 2006 / Group B

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results and statistics of the qualification games at www.fussballdaten.de; accessed on May 9, 2018