Christian Camilo Marrugo Rodríguez (born 18 July 1985), is a professional footballer who plays for

Real Cartagena Real Cartagena is a professional Colombian football team based in Cartagena, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. They play their home games at the Jaime Morón León stadium. History The origins of Real Cartagena date back to 197 ...

. He plays the position of attacking midfielder.

Club career

Marrugo played for the Bolivar Department soccer and indoor soccer teams in all categories U10, U14, U16. When he was 15 years old, he traveled from Cartagena to

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, where he stayed a couple of years before arriving to

Medellín Medellín ( or ), officially the Municipality of Medellín ( es, Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central re ...

to join

Atlético Nacional Atlético Nacional S. A., best known as Atlético Nacional, is a Colombian professional association football, football club based in Medellín. The club is one of only three clubs to have played in every first division tournament in the countr ...

where he won the Colombian League in 2005. He was then transferred from Atlético Nacional to

Independiente Santa Fe Club Independiente Santa Fe, known simply as Santa Fe, is a Colombian professional football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the El Campín stadium. Santa Fe is one of the th ...

and also promoted to the Senior

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. He was later traded to

Deportes Tolima Club Deportes Tolima S.A., commonly known as Deportes Tolima, or simply as Tolima, is a Colombian professional football club based in Ibagué, Tolima Department that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. Founded in 1954, the club has wo ...

for Anchico and on November 2012, to

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. For the year 2014,

Deportivo Cali Asociación Deportivo Cali, best known as Deportivo Cali, is a Colombian sports club based in Cali, most notable for its football team, which currently competes in the Categoría Primera A. Deportivo Cali is one of the most successful footba ...

acquired Marrugo to enforce the midfield for coming tournaments like

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and

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. For the second semester of 2014, he was signed by

Independiente Medellín Deportivo Independiente Medellín, also known as Independiente Medellín or DIM, is a Colombian professional football club based in Medellín that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at Estadio Atanasio Girardo ...

on a six-months loan to reinforce the red and blue team. In 2016, he helped Independiente Medellín win their sixth league championship, scoring a brace in the final against

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. Since then, he has been known as Marrugol. For The second season of Águila League 2016 he finished as the forward with more goals in DIM.

International career

He played with the

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at the 2005 South American Youth Championship, which Colombia hosted and won. He then competed at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, helping Colombia to the Round of 16 before losing to eventual champion Argentina.

Personal life

Marrugo and his family have strong sports habits, his brother Camilo Marrugo has also played a couple of professional games in the Colombian league with

and

Cúcuta Deportivo Cúcuta Deportivo Fútbol Club S. A. is a professional Colombian football club based in Cúcuta, which plays in the Categoria Primera B. The club was officially founded on 10 September 1924, and its first appearance in a professional league wa ...

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* * * 1985 births Living people Colombian men's footballers Colombian expatriate men's footballers Colombia men's international footballers Colombia men's under-20 international footballers Footballers from Cartagena, Colombia Men's association football midfielders Atlético Nacional footballers Independiente Santa Fe footballers Deportes Tolima footballers C.F. Pachuca players C.D. Veracruz footballers Deportivo Cali footballers Independiente Medellín footballers Club Puebla players Millonarios F.C. players Águilas Doradas players Categoría Primera A players Liga MX players Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Mexico {{colombia-footy-midfielder-stub