Juan Bautista Agüero Sánchez (24 June 1935 – 27 December 2018) was a Paraguayan

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striker.

Career

Agüero started his career at

Olimpia Asunción Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan professional sports club based in the city of Asunción. It promotes the practice of various sports, with most importance given to the football, rugby and basketball sides, football being the most successful. Fou ...

, which was at the time coached by the great Aurelio González. There, Agüero won some national championships. He was later transferred to

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, where he would spend 8 years, playing more than 100 games. For the 1965/1966, he signed for

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and had a brief stint in

Granada CF Granada Club de Fútbol (), known simply as Granada or ''"Graná"'', is a professional List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club based in the city of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, that currently plays in Segunda ...

. Agüero was part of the

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that qualified for and played in the

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, where he scored two goals for Paraguay.

Titles

Real Madrid *

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: 1965–66

References

1935 births 2018 deaths Paraguayan men's footballers Paraguay men's international footballers Club Olimpia footballers Sevilla FC players Real Madrid CF players Granada CF footballers La Liga players Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Paraguayan expatriate men's footballers Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Spain 1958 FIFA World Cup players Men's association football forwards People from Caacupé Footballers from Cordillera Department UEFA Champions League–winning players {{Paraguay-footy-forward-stub