Salvador Cabañas

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Salvador Cabañas
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Salvador Cabañas (2016)
Personnel
Surname Salvador Cabañas Ortega
birthday 5th August 1980
place of birth Asunción ,  Paraguay
size 173 cm
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2001 12 de Octubre 62 (21)
1999 →  Club Guaraní  (loan) 20 0(6)
2001-2003 Audax Italiano 53 (29)
2003-2006 Chiapas FC 101 (56)
2006-2011 Club America 113 (61)
2012 12 de Octubre 14 0(0)
2013 General Caballero SC
2014 Tanabi EC
2014 Independiente PJC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1999-2004 Paraguay U-20 3 0(0)
2003-2009 Paraguay 44 (10)
1 Only league games are given.

Salvador Cabañas Ortega (born August 5, 1980 in Itauguá ) is a former Paraguayan football player . He was one of the best strikers in his country in the 2000s and was named Paraguayan and South American Footballer of the Year in 2007. After being shot in the head in 2010, he could no longer build on his old achievements.

Career

society

In his youth, Cabañas, son of the former professional footballer Dionisio Cabañas , still played in attacking midfield, later he became a real striker. In his home country, he remained rather inconspicuous with the clubs Club 12 de Octubre from Itauguá and Club Guaraní . In 2001 he moved abroad and scored 29 goals in 53 league appearances at the Chilean capital club Audax Italiano by 2003. In 2003 he was the top scorer of the Chilean Apertura with 18 goals . His final breakthrough came in 2003 when he moved to the Primera División Mexico. At the Jaguares de Chiapas , he became one of the league's most dangerous goalscorers in three years, scoring 59 goals in 98 games. In 2006 he was top scorer of the Clausura with eleven goals in 17 games together with Sebastián Abreu . In the same year he moved to the Champions' Cup winner and Mexican record champions Club América from Mexico City . Here he continued his good performance in the following years and scored 61 goals in 113 league games by 2010. In 2007 and 2008 he was the top scorer of the South American continental competition Copa Libertadores with ten and eight goals respectively . In 2007 he was the second best world goalscorer of the calendar year behind the Congolese Trésor Mputu Mabi . In the same year, his achievements at Club America also earned him the award for Footballer of the Year in Paraguay and the entire South American continent.

On January 25, 2010, it became known that he was shot in the head by a criminal named José Jorge Balderas (nicknamed JJ ) in the toilet in a bar in southern Mexico City around 5:00 a.m. (local time) . He suffered life-threatening injuries and spent more than three weeks in intensive care, including one week in a coma. The bullet is still in his head to this day. The perpetrator was arrested in 2011 and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2019.

After a forced break of around 18 months, he made his comeback on August 11, 2011 in a charity match between his club, Club América, against the national team of Paraguay. He played nine minutes for both teams. In early 2012 he signed a one-year contract with Club 12 de Octubre, which was playing in the Paraguayan third division at the time and where he had already started his career. In April of the same year he was on the field again for the first time in a competitive game. He remained far from its former performance, but was used in 14 league games. He didn't score a goal. He also trained at Club 12 de Octubre in 2014, but was not considered for the game due to his poor form.

In March 2014, he signed a contract with the fourth-class Tanabi club in São Paulo, starting April 1, 2014. In Brazil, TV reports about his work in his parents' bakery made him aware of him, which is why the local management team there decided to give him a fresh start in football. At the end of May 2014 he announced his resignation.

After the assassination, Cabañas claims to have given his fortune to his ex-wife María Lorgia Alonso, who stayed with their two children Santiago and Mía Ivonne in the formerly shared property in Asunción, valued at around five million US dollars. and lost his lawyer. Cabañas was therefore dependent on working in his parents' bakery in addition to his football career. After the end of his career, he completed a course to become a football coach.

National team

Cabañas was already in the 1999 junior selection of his country at the Junior World Cup finals , in which Paraguay reached the round of 16 despite a 4-0 defeat against Germany, while the German team were eliminated in the preliminary round. In 2003 he completed his first international matches for the senior national team. From 2005 he was a permanent member of the team and was used in seven qualifying games for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, where he scored a goal against Ecuador. Although he went to Germany in Paraguay's World Cup squad , he was not used in his country's high-class storm, which included Bundesliga players Roque Santa Cruz and Nelson Valdez . At the Copa America 2007 he scored three tournament goals as a regular player and reached the quarterfinals with Paraguay. Cabañas was an integral part of the Paraguayan national team during qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and with six goals in 15 games the most successful goalscorer in his country. His last international match before the attack was also Paraguay's last qualifying game that was lost 2-0 to Colombia. The selection was already qualified for the finals before this game. In total, Cabañas completed 44 international matches in which he scored ten goals.

successes

team

  • Chiapas Cup 2003, 2005 (with the Jaguares)
  • InterLiga 2008 (with Club América)

Personal awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Salvarse como sea (Spanish) at www.futbol.com.uy from February 8, 2014, accessed on February 8, 2014
  2. ↑ Top scorer of the Chilean league at rsssf.com , accessed on April 21, 2020 (English)
  3. ↑ Top scorer of the Mexican league at rsssf.com , accessed on April 21, 2020 (English)
  4. ↑ Top scorer of the Copa Libertadores at rsssf.com , accessed on April 21, 2020 (English)
  5. ↑ Cabañas: Only goals count on de.fifa.com from April 30, 2008, accessed on April 21, 2020.
  6. ↑ Tobias Buyer: The cartel shirt . In: Financial Times Deutschland, June 21, 2011.
  7. ^ Peter Burghardt: World Cup despite headshot ( memento from March 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 5, 2010.
  8. ↑ Klaus Ehringfeld: Paraguayan striker shot - kicking with a ball in the head. In: spiegel.de. April 20, 2014, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Salvador Cabañas, un ejemplo de la superación humana , report on colgadosporelfutbol.com (Spanish), accessed on March 11, 2020
  10. ↑ a b Daniela Muñoz: ¿Qué fue de Salvador Cabañas tras el ataque del "JJ"? In: lasillarota.com. February 17, 2019, accessed April 21, 2020 (Spanish).
  11. ^ Benefit game 2011 , report on bild.de.
  12. ↑ Return to professional football - Cabanas makes a comeback after a headshot on rp-online.de on April 15, 2012, accessed on April 21, 2020
  13. ↑ Salvador Cabañas no jugará torneo paraguayo on eluniverso.com from February 16, 2014 (Spanish), accessed on April 21, 2020.
  14. ↑ Salvador Cabañas fue contratado en Brasil (Spanish) on www.foxsportsla.com from March 17, 2014, accessed on March 18, 2014
  15. ↑ Assassination victim Cabanas has to end his career on www.kicker.de on May 30, 2014, accessed on May 30, 2014
  16. ↑ Balón de Oro 2008 Entrega FMF Balón de Oro del Apertura 2007 y Clausura 2008. In: mediotiempo.com. Archived from the original on July 29, 2008 ; accessed on April 21, 2020 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Cabañas, Salvador
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cabañas Ortega, Salvador (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Paraguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Asunción , Paraguay