Harold Fabián Preciado Villarreal (; born 1 June 1994) is a Colombian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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team

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Club career

Harold Preciado would start his senior career with top tier club

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 ...

in the

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. The following season he was loaned out to second tier club

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where he immediately established himself as a vital member of their team, going on to win the division title and promotion with them. This saw Deportivo Cali incorporate Harold back into the team and he would immediately repay them by winning the 2015 Categoría Primera A: Apertura for them. On 7 February 2017, Harold joined second tier Chinese football club

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for the start of the

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campaign. In his debut appearance he would score a hat-trick on 12 March 2017 against

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in a league game that ended in a 6-0 victory. At the end of the campaign he would personally be the top goalscorer in the division. The following season he was able to maintain his form and go on to gain promotion with Shenzhen to the top tier at the end of the

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campaign. On 29 January 2022 it was confirmed by Mexican team

that Preciado had signed with them.

International career

Preciado was named in Colombia's provisional squad for

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but was cut from the final squad. Preciado played a vital role in Colombia's qualification to the Olympics and played every game in the Rio olympics. Preciado made his debut for the senior national team on 16 January 2022 in a 2–1 home win over

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Career statistics

Honours

Club

;Deportivo Cali *

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: 2015–I, 2021–II ;Jaguares de Córdoba *

Categoría Primera B Categoría Primera B, commonly referred to as Torneo BetPlay Dimayor due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay (formerly ''Torneo Águila''), is the second-division football league in Colombia. Format DIMAYOR has applied a new forma ...

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Individual

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top goalscorer:

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* 1994 births Living people Colombian footballers Categoría Primera A players Categoría Primera B players China League One players Chinese Super League players Liga MX players Deportivo Cali footballers Jaguares de Córdoba footballers Shenzhen F.C. players Santos Laguna footballers Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Colombia People from Tumaco Association football forwards Colombian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in China Colombian expatriate sportspeople in China Expatriate footballers in Mexico Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Sportspeople from Nariño Department {{Colombia-footy-forward-stub