Alexander Leonardo Bolaños Reascos (born January 22, 1985) is an

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ian who currently plays for CD La Unión as a

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Career

Bolaños began his career at

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-based club

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in 2005 during the Clausura championship. He continued to play for the club until they released him as a result of his

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. After serving time in prison, he was signed by

LDU Quito Liga Deportiva Universitaria () is an Ecuadorian professional football club based in Quito. They play in the Serie A, the highest level of the Ecuadorian professional football league. They play their home games at the Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgad ...

in the later half of 2009 as an emergency signing. Despite not making any league appearances in 2009 due to ineligibility, he played one match for the club during the

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. Liga would go on to win the competition and give Bolaños his first piece of silverware. Due to a lack of possible playing time, LDU Quito loaned Bolaños to crosstown-team Universidad Católica for the 2010 season. For the 2011 season, he was signed by

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. In June 2019, he joined LDU Loja.

Family

Bolaños is the older brother of Miller Bolaños, a midfielder who plays for Grêmio.

Criminal case

Bolaños was involved in a fatal car crash in which his car struck the vehicle of Fabricio Gerardo Quezada, who was killed in the crash. Bolaños was sentenced to seven years in prison for drunk driving and manslaughter. He was released in September 2009 after a successful appeal of his sentence.

Honors

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

References

External links

Bolaños' FEF player card
* 1985 births Living people People from San Lorenzo, Ecuador Footballers from Esmeraldas Province Ecuadorian men's footballers 21st-century Ecuadorian sportsmen Barcelona S.C. footballers L.D.U. Quito footballers C.D. Universidad Católica del Ecuador footballers S.D. Quito footballers Club Olimpo footballers S.D. Aucas footballers Santa Cruz Futebol Clube players Delfín S.C. footballers Fuerza Amarilla S.C. footballers L.D.U. Loja footballers Copa Sudamericana–winning players Ecuadorian Serie A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Argentine Primera División players Ecuador men's international footballers Ecuadorian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil Men's association football midfielders {{Ecuador-footy-midfielder-stub