Luis Alfonso Páez (born October 27, 1986) is a Colombian

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who plays as a

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for

Toros Neza Neza Fútbol Club is a Mexican football club based in the city of Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico, that plays in the Liga de Balompié Mexicano. Founded in 1991 as Toros UTN, then the club was moved to Pachuca, Hidalgo and played the 1993–94 ...

Career

Paez began his career in the

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with

Atlético Bello Atlético Bello is a Colombian soccer club, from the municipality of Bello, Antioquia north of Valle de Aburrá, it was founded in 1995 as "Atlético Bello" and refounded on January 1, 2015, as "Club Deportivo Atlético Bello", currently He plays ...

. A year later, he transferred to

Millonarios Millonarios Fútbol Club, known simply as Millonarios, is a Colombian professional football club based in Bogotá, that competes in the Categoría Primera A, top flight of football in Colombia. It is one of the most successful and iconic clubs i ...

, and the following year to

Deportivo Rionegro Leones F.C., also known as Itagüí Leones, is a professional Colombian football team based in Itagüí playing in the Categoría Primera B starting from 2019. They play their home games at the Estadio Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí. History ...

, which later merged into

Rionegro Águilas Rionegro () is a city and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia, located in the subregion of Eastern Antioquia. The official name of the city is Ciudad Santiago de Arma de Rionegro. Rio Negro means "Black River" in Spanish, as the city ...

, the club where he won his first title in 2010. In 2011, he joined

Atlético Junior Club Deportivo Popular Junior F.C. S.A. (), commonly known as Junior de Barranquilla, by its old name Atlético Junior or simply as Junior, is a Colombian professional football team based in Barranquilla, capital of the department of Atlantic ...

, where he had some of the best periods of his career, scoring 37 goals in 64 games, and winning the league title in 2011. In 2017, he left Rionegro and moved to India to play for

NorthEast United FC NorthEast United Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Guwahati, Assam that competes in the Indian Super League (ISL), the top flight of Indian football. The club was founded on 13 April 2014 during the inaugural sea ...

, and in 2018 he signed for

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from

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Honours

Club

Rionegro Águilas *

(1):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Atlético Junior *

Categoría Primera A The Categoría Primera A (), commonly referred to as Liga BetPlay Dimayor due to Sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay, is a professional association football league in Colombia and the highest level of the Colombian ...

(1): 2011-II Atlético Nacional *

(1): 2014-I

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paez, Luis 1986 births Living people Footballers from Medellín Men's association football forwards Colombian men's footballers Colombian expatriate men's footballers Categoría Primera A players Categoría Primera B players Indian Super League players Venezuelan Primera División players Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala players Atlético Bello footballers Millonarios F.C. players Águilas Doradas players Atlético Junior footballers Deportivo Pasto footballers Atlético Huila footballers Atlético Nacional footballers Independiente Santa Fe footballers NorthEast United FC players Deportivo Táchira F.C. players Boyacá Chicó F.C. footballers 21st-century Colombian sportsmen Expatriate men's footballers in India Expatriate men's footballers in Venezuela Expatriate men's footballers in Guatemala Colombian expatriate sportspeople in India