Wilder Cartagena

What hooks me about Wilder Cartagena is that he started life between the posts as a goalkeeper before Alianza Lima's academy moved him into midfield. That backstory feels written all over his game: a defensive midfielder who reads danger the way a keeper scans for it, then quietly recycles possession. He is the unglamorous engine, not the headline striker, and I have a soft spot for players like that. Holding down a spot for Peru and Major League Soccer's Orlando City takes a particular kind of durability. He is the sort of pro a coach trusts precisely because nobody else notices him.

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Name (English)

Wilder Cartagena

Name (Japanese)

ウィルデル・カルタヘナ

Reading

うぃるでる・かるたへな

Born

September 23, 1994 (age 32)

Origin

Chincha Alta, Ica Department, Peru

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilder%20Cartagena
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%87%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%98%E3%83%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4144225

Tags

• Ica Department
• association football player

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.