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Diego Calvo

ディエゴ・カルボ　/　でぃえご・かるぼ

Association football player from Costa Rica

March 25, 1991 (age 35)　・　Alajuela Province, Costa Rica

Alajuela Province
association football player

My Take

What draws me to Diego Calvo is the quiet audacity of a Costa Rican winger chasing the game beyond his small nation's borders. Born in 1991 in Alajuela, a true heartland of Tico football, he never had the luxury of size at 175 cm, which tells me everything about how he survived: with quickness, guile, and the streetwise spark Central American football breeds. I admire players who carry a whole country's warmth and grit onto foreign pitches. The data on him is sparse, but I find real romance in this Aries' willingness to push forward and stake a claim where few from his homeland get to.

Overview

Diego Gerardo Calvo Fonseca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo ˈkalβo]; born 25 March 1991) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a winger.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Diego Calvo
Name (Japanese): ディエゴ・カルボ
Reading: でぃえご・かるぼ
Born: March 25, 1991 (age 35)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Goat
Origin: Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Blood type: Private
Height: 175 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: association football player

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9C

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