Julio César Cáceres

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Julio César Cáceres
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Julio César Cáceres, 2011
Personnel
Surname Julio César Cáceres López
birthday 5th October 1979
place of birth San José dos Arroyos ,  Paraguay
size 181 cm
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
until 1999 Sportivo San José
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2004 Olimpia Asunción 91 (7)
2004-2005 FC Nantes 12 (0)
2005 →  Atlético Mineiro  (loan) 20 (3)
2006 →  CA River Plate  (loan) 15 (0)
2006 →  Gimnàstic de Tarragona  (loan) 11 (0)
2007 UANL Tigres 32 (2)
2008-2009 Boca Juniors 54 (1)
2010 Atlético Mineiro 8 (0)
2011–2012 Olimpia Asunción 48 (2)
2013-2018 Club Guaraní 160 (8)
2018– Olimpia Asunción
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
0000-2010 Paraguay 66 (2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 27, 2018

Julio César Cáceres López (born October 5, 1979 in San José dos Arroyos ) is a Paraguayan football player in the service of Club Olimpia from Asunción . He was a long-time player in the Paraguayan national team , with which he took part in three soccer world championships.

Career

After playing for Sportivo San José in his youth, the defender began his professional career in 1999 with Olimpia Asunción. With this club he won the Paraguay championship in 1999 and 2000, as well as the South American continental competition Copa Libertadores in 2002 and the Recopa Sudamericana in 2003 , a kind of South American Supercup . By 2004 he played 91 league games for Olimpia Asunción, in which he scored 7 goals.

In 2004 he moved to France for FC Nantes . For this club, however, he played only twelve games and was loaned to the Brazilian club Atlético Mineiro the following season , where things went better for him (20 games and 3 goals). The FC Nantes awarded him for the 2006/2007 season first to the Argentine top club CA River Plate for whom he played 15 games and then to Gimnàstic de Tarragona in Spain (11 games). Then he was in 2007 with UANL Tigres in Mexico (32 games / 2 goals) under contract. From January 2008 to January 2010 he played for the Boca Juniors in Argentina. For this club he appeared in 54 games and scored one goal. In 2010 he played again for Atlético Mineiro in Brazil . There he came to eight appearances in the 2010 season .

In early 2011, Cáceres returned to his first professional club, Olimpia Asunción, with whom he won the 2011 Clausura and thus the championship. In early 2013 he moved to league rivals Club Guaraní , where he was a regular player in defense for several years. With Guaraní he won the 2016 Clausura. In mid-2018 he returned to Olimpia again and was twice champion in Paraguay in 2018 and 2019.

National team

Cáceres was an integral part of the Paraguayan national team in the 2000s and completed a total of 66 international matches in which he scored two goals. He took part in three world championships in 2002 , 2006 and 2010 . In 2002 and 2006 he was always in the starting XI in a total of seven games in Paraguay. When Paraguay's best performance in the quarter-finals at a World Cup in 2010, he was only used in the last group game against New Zealand. This was also his last game for the national team.

In 2007 he took part in the Copa America and after the injury-related elimination of the actual captain and goalkeeper Justo Villar in the second group game, he led the team as captain to the quarter-finals.

Web links

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Cup portraits: Julio Cesar Caceres, Paraguay's defense chief on Goal.com (accessed March 1, 2020)
  2. ↑ International match statistics of all Paraguayan national players with more than 25 appearances (as of the end of 2019) at RSSSF.com (English, accessed on March 1, 2020)
  3. ↑ Copa América 2007 at RSSSF.com (accessed on March 1, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Cáceres, Julio César
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cáceres Lopes, Julio César (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Paraguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH San José dos Arroyos , Paraguay