Diego Barreto
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Diego Daniel Barreto Caceres | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Cerro Porteño | ||
Number | 1 |
Olympic medal record | ||
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Men's Football | ||
2004 Athens | Team Competition |
Diego Daniel Barreto Caceres (born July 16, 1981) is a Paraguayan football goalkeeper who started his career in the Club Cerro Porteño, being trained by Modesto Sandoval and was the team-mate of Aldo Bobadilla in the inferiors of Cerro, he currently plays for Cerro Porteño.
He was part of the silver medal-winning Paraguayan football team in the 2004 Olympics. Paraguay booked a quarter-final place with two victories in the qualifying group, finishing second, and then beat South Korea in the quarter-finals and Iraq in the semi-finals, before losing to Argentina in the final.
In 2007 Barreto had a spell with Newell's Old Boys in Argentina, but failed to break into the 1st team, returning to Paraguay in January 2008. However, he signed again for the Argentine team in July 2008.
He also holds Italian passport.
In 2008 he spend a month with FC Locarno, he played only 1 match, taking 4 goals in the derby against FC Lugano, than he flight back home to play in Paraguay. [citation needed]
External links
- Template:Es icon BDFA profile
- profile @ www.football.ch
- Diego Barreto at National-Football-Teams.com
- Diego Barreto – FIFA competition record (archived)
- 1981 births
- Paraguayan footballers
- Paraguay international footballers
- Olympic footballers of Paraguay
- Olympic silver medalists for Paraguay
- Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cerro Porteño footballers
- UD Almería footballers
- Newell's Old Boys footballers
- 2004 Copa América players
- Expatriate footballers in Argentina
- FC Locarno players
- Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
- Football (soccer) goalkeepers
- Living people
- Paraguayan football biography stubs