Salvador Cabañas

Salvador Cabañas is, to me, the purest kind of striker: a goal-scorer whose gift lived in instinct rather than physique. At 174 cm he was never towering, yet across clubs like Club América and Audax Italiano, and for Paraguay's national team, he found the net with uncanny regularity. That sense of where the ball will fall can't really be coached. Knowing his life took hard turns off the pitch only makes the brilliance he showed on it more worth remembering.

Name (English)

Salvador Cabañas

Name (Japanese)

サルバドール・カバニャス

Reading

さるばどーる・かばにゃす

Born

August 5, 1980 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Monkey

Origin

Asunción, Paraguay

Height

174 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador%20Caba%C3%B1as
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q343080

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-24

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