Juan Manuel Battaglia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Juan Manuel Battaglia is a former football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

midfielder

Midfielder

A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...

and forward.

Battaglia started his career in 1977, in Paraguayan side Nacional before moving to Cerro Porteño

Cerro Porteño

Club Cerro Porteño is a professional Paraguayan football club, based in the neighbourhood of Barrio Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1912, Cerro has won 28 Primera División titles and is one of the most popular football club in Paraguay...

. He then was part of a ten year long career at Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n club América de Cali

América de Cali

Corporación Deportiva América, commonly known as América de Cali or simply América is a Colombian football club based in Cali. They currently play in the Categoría Primera A, the top-flight professional league in the country....

, from 1979 to 1989, where he helped the team win several national championships and becoming a fan-favorite.

Titles as a player

Colombian championship: 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 (with América de Cali)
Copa Libertadores runners-up: 1985, 1986, 1987 (with América de Cali)

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