Place of birth Itaugua, Paraguay 2005–2008 Cerro Porteno Position Defender 2004–2005 Olimpia Asuncion Height 1.91 m | Years Team Role Football player Name Nelson Cabrera | |
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Date of birth (1983-04-22) 22 April 1983 (age 32) Similar People Juanmi Callejon, Gerardo Yecerotte, William Ferreira, Jose Luis Capdevila, Juan Carlos Arce | ||
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Nelson David Cabrera Báez (born 22 April 1983 in Itauguá) is a Paraguayan football defender who plays for Club Bolivar in Bolivia. He also holds Bolivian citizenship.
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Career
Cabrera started his career at Olimpia Asunción and moved to rivals Cerro Porteño in 2005. There he won two championships and was team captain from 2007 to 2008. He was then transferred to CSD Colo Colo of Chile for $1,000,000. In the 2009-2010 season he played for CFR Cluj of Romania, where he won the National League and played in the UEFA Europa League.
Cabrera was born and raised in Paraguay, and represented their national team in a friendly match in 2007. However, later in his career he played in Bolivia, gained their nationality and debuted officially for the Bolivia national football team in 2016. He was subsequently found to be ineligible by FIFA resulting in forfeiture of the preliminary 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification games between Bolivia and Peru on 1 September 2016 and between Chile and Bolivia on 6 September 2016.