Leonel Álvarez

Álvarez is the kind of player I respect more the longer I look at him. A defensive midfielder who earned 101 caps for Colombia between 1985 and 1997 was never the man grabbing headlines, yet he became the third most capped player his country ever produced. That tells me everything: he was the glue, the one coaches trusted to do the unglamorous work week after week. Coming out of Remedios in Antioquia and later moving into management, he strikes me as someone who understood the game from the inside out and wanted to pass that hard-won reading of it forward.

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Name (English)

Leonel Álvarez

Name (Japanese)

レオネル・アルバレス

Reading

れおねる・あるばれす

Born

July 29, 1965 (age 61)

Origin

Remedios, Antioquia, Colombia

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonel%20%C3%81lvarez%20(footballer%2C%20born%201965)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720014

Tags

• Antioquia
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.