Daniel Celso Jara Martínez (born 22 November 1993) is a

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Career

Jara Martínez started his career with Paraguayan outfit Club Nacional Asunción, with whom he participated in the 2010

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, a youth international tournament during which he was noticed by Palermo director of football

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. He was subsequently offered a trial in February 2010, joining the first team for a number of weeks and taking part to their training sessions; in order to defy journalists from his real identity, Sabatini referred him to the journalists using the name of "Gonzalez". On 31 August 2010 Palermo confirmed the signing of Jara Martínez from Nacional Asunción. The player immediately joined the under-19 youth team, but only made his competitive debut later on November due to bureaucratic issues. Since then, the player has trained occasionally with the first-team squad, and also appeared on the bench for a number of Serie A games. On 25 January 2011, an injury crisis that left Palermo with only an available first-team striker (captain

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) led head coach

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to call him up for the

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quarter-final game against

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, a game that saw Jara Martínez making his first team debut as a 70th-minute replacement for Miccoli. The match ultimately ended to a penalty shootout, with Jara Martínez himself scoring the decisive goal that led Palermo into the semi-finals of the competition. This was followed by a lacklustre season where Jara Martínez was regularly benched in the ''Primavera'' team too, behind other promising youngsters such as

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, César Verdún and Cephas Malele. On 20 August 2012, Palermo announced to have loaned Jara Martínez to

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in an exchange deal that involved the permanent signing of

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for €1.7 million and the permanent sale of

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for €600,000. After spending a full season with the youth squad, he was permanently signed by Genoa and successively loaned to

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club Nocerina. On 10 July 2014 he was signed by

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jara Martinez, Daniel 1993 births Living people Footballers from Asunción Paraguayan men's footballers Paraguayan expatriate men's footballers Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Italy Palermo FC players ASD Victor San Marino players Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Men's association football midfielders