Salvador Cabañas

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Salvador Cabañas Ortega (born August 5, 1980 in Asunción) is a Paraguayan football striker, who currently plays for Club América of the Primera División de México.

[edit] Career

Cabañas started his career at Paraguayan club 12 de Octubre and had a brief stint in Club Guaraní before moving to Audax Italiano of Chile. In the 2003 Apertura tournament of the Chilean league Cabañas netted an impressive 18 goals and was the top scorer. Afterwards, he joined Jaguares of Mexico from Audax Italiano before the Mexican 2003 Apertura tournament. That season, Cabañas went on to play in 18 games for the team, scoring five goals. He came into his own in the 2004 Clausura however, as he scored 15 goals in 20 games for the club. He would lead the club in goals again in the 2004 Apertura, with eight in 16 matches.

Following the Clausura 2006 season in which Cabañas won his first goalscoring crown in the Mexican League, he attracted the attention of Club América, one of the most important clubs in the country, and was signed by the Mexico City squad prior to the Apertura 2006 season.

Cabañas has become América's most prolific goalscorer for 2007, finishing up the first half of the year with an impressive 19 goals between Copa Libertadores 2007 (in which he became the top-scorer with 10 goals) and the Primera División de México. He started the second half of the year with a single goal in the North American SuperLiga, then scored 4 more goals in the Copa Sudamericana 2007, and has scored 9 more in the Primera División de México, bringing his year's total with the club to 33 goals. His top form in 2007 earned him the Paraguayan Footballer of the Year and South American Footballer of the Year awards.

For 2008, Cabañas has started where he left off in 2007. He has scored 3 goals in the InterLiga 2008, scored 8 in the Copa Libertadores 2008, and has scored 6 more goals in the Primera División de México, bringing his total to 17 goals so far.

[edit] Paraguay National Team

Cabañas scored 2 goals against Colombia in the his team's first game of the Copa América 2007, in Venezuela. He also scored another goal against the United States, coming off the bench in stoppage time and since then has been a consistent player for the national team in the 2010 World Cup qualification.

[edit] Honours

[edit] Individual honours

• Top-scorer in the Chilean football league, Apertura 2003 with Audax Italiano
• Top-scorer in the Primera División de México, Clausura 2006 with Jaguares de Chiapas
• Top-scorer in the Copa Libertadores 2007, with Club América
• Paraguayan Footballer of the Year in 2007
• South American Footballer of the Year in 2007
• Top-scorer in the Copa Libertadores 2008, with Club América

[edit] Other honors

• Salvador finished 2007 with the second most goals in the world.^[1]
• Salvador is the all-time top scorer of all Mexican teams in their history of Copa Libertadores participation's.^[2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• FootballDatabase provides Salvador Cabañas's profile and stats
• Salvador Cabañas Statistics at MedioTiempo.com (Spanish)

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