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Leonel Álvarez

レオネル・アルバレス　/　れおねる・あるばれす

Association football player from Colombia

July 29, 1965 (age 60)　・　Remedios, Antioquia, Colombia

Antioquia
association football player
association football coach

My Take

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.

Overview

Leonel de Jesús Álvarez Zuleta (born 29 July 1965) is a Colombian football manager and former player who played as a defensive midfielder. Álvarez played 101 times for the Colombia national team between 1985 and 1997, making him the third most capped player in Colombian international football.

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

1. Profile

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 60)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Snake
Origin: Remedios, Antioquia, Colombia
Blood type: Private
Height: 178 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: association football player / association football coach

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%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

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