Osvaldo Díaz (born 22 December 1981) is a retired

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Career

Díaz began his career at

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before moving in mid 2007 to

Olimpia Asunción Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan sports club based in the city of Asunción. The club promotes the practice of various sports with most importance given to the football, rugby and basketball sides, the former being the highest priority and most su ...

in the Paraguayan First Division. On 1 February 2008 he was signed by AC Lugano, where he only played a total of 17 minutes in 3 games. On 4 August, before the Summer Olympics began, he played in a preparation game against the

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in the city of

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, resulting in a 5–0 defeat. Diaz was part of the silver medal-winning Paraguayan 2004 Olympic football team, which earned a quarter-final place with two victories in the qualifying round. Having finished second in the league, the squad later beat

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in the quarter-finals, and

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in the semi-finals, before losing to

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in the final.

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