Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Marcelo Alejandro Estigarribia Balmori | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | 21 September 1987 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Left winger | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Sportivo Ameliano | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
Unión Pacífico | ||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
2005–2006 | Sport Colombia | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||
2006–2008 | Cerro Porteño | 45 | (6) | |||||||||||
2008–2011 | Le Mans | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||
2010–2011 | → Newell's Old Boys (loan) | 45 | (0) | |||||||||||
2011–2021 | Deportivo Maldonado | 15 | (2) | |||||||||||
2011–2012 | → Juventus (loan) | 14 | (1) | |||||||||||
2012–2013 | → Sampdoria (loan) | 34 | (2) | |||||||||||
2013–2014 | → Chievo Verona (loan) | 16 | (0) | |||||||||||
2014–2015 | → Atalanta (loan) | 25 | (2) | |||||||||||
2016–2017 | → Cerro Porteño (loan) | 22 | (1) | |||||||||||
2017 | → Chiapas (loan) | 6 | (1) | |||||||||||
2017–2020 | → Colón (loan) | 66 | (4) | |||||||||||
2021 | → Olimpia (loan) | 15 | (0) | |||||||||||
2022 | Sol de América | 35 | (3) | |||||||||||
2023– | Sportivo Ameliano | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||
International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
2007 | Paraguay U20 | |||||||||||||
2008– | Paraguay | 32 | (1) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 January 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 July 2013 |
Marcelo Alejandro Estigarribia Balmori (born 21 September 1987) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a left winger for Sportivo Ameliano in the Primera División Paraguaya.
Estigarribia has been known since youth as Chelo,[1] as a diminutive of his name Marcelo.[2] He also has an Italian passport by way of his mother.[3] At club level, Estigarribia has played for teams in Paraguay, France, Uruguay, Argentina, Italy, and Mexico. At international level, he has represented the Paraguay national football team, and was member of the squad that finished second at the 2011 Copa América.