Cesar Osvaldo La Paglia (born 25 February 1979 in
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the RÃo de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...
) is an
Argentine
Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
midfielder
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t ...
.
La Paglia started his career at
Argentinos Juniors
Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Paternal, Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its association football, football team, which currently plays in the Argentine Primera División, and was reco ...
but he was soon sold to Argentine team
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is best known for its men's professional Association football, football team which, since its promotion in 1913 ...
. In his first spell with Boca he was part of three
League
League or The League may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Leagues'' (band), an American rock band
* ''The League'', an American sitcom broadcast on FX and FXX about fantasy football
* ''League of Legends'', a 2009 multiplayer online battle a ...
titles. In 2001, he moved to
Talleres de Córdoba
Club Atlético Talleres (; ), mostly known simply as Talleres ( in Rioplatense Spanish, Rioplatense accent and or in Cordobés Spanish, Cordobés accent; ), is an Football in Argentina, Argentine professional sports club based in the city of C ...
but in 2003 he returned to Boca for a second spell with the club. It was during this brief spell at Boca that he won the
Copa Libertadores
The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as Copa Libertadores de América (), is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in South American club football. The tournam ...
.
Between 2004 and 2006 he played for
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
side
CD Tenerife
Club Deportivo Tenerife, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. Founded in 1922, the club plays in the Segunda División, holding home matches at the Estadio Heliodoro RodrÃguez Là ...
, in 2006 he moved to
Vitória F.C.
Vitória Futebol Clube (), popularly known as Vitória de Setúbal, is a Portuguese professional Association football, football club based in Setúbal that used to compete in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football league system ...
and in 2007 he moved to Independiente MedellÃn. During the transfer window in January, the Chinese club of
Wuhan Guanggu signed him for a one-year contract. On May 11, 2008, he was released from Wuhan Guanggu and spent the second half of 2008 with
Defensor Sporting
Defensor Sporting Club is a sports club based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Founded in 1913, Defensor has several sports sections, with football and basketball being the most important and the ones in which the club has achieved significant achievement ...
of
Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the RÃo de la Plata to the south and the A ...
.
In 2009 La Paglia returned to Argentina to join
San MartÃn de Tucumán
Club Atlético San MartÃn (mostly known as San MartÃn de Tucumán) is an Argentine sports club founded in 1909 and based in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán Province. The club is notable for its football team, which currently plays ...
.
Titles
References
*
Biography by HistoriadeBoca.com.ar
1979 births
Living people
Copa Libertadores–winning players
Argentine men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Argentinos Juniors footballers
Boca Juniors footballers
Talleres de Córdoba footballers
San MartÃn de Tucumán footballers
CD Tenerife players
Vitória F.C. players
Independiente MedellÃn footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in China
Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia
Expatriate men's footballers in Uruguay
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Defensor Sporting players
Primeira Liga players
Argentine Primera División players
Segunda División players
CategorÃa Primera A players
Uruguayan Primera División players
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Footballers from Buenos Aires
20th-century Argentine sportsmen
{{Argentina-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub