José Cardozo

José Saturnino Cardozo Otazú ( born March 19, 1971 in Nueva Italia, Paraguay ) is a Paraguayan former football player and one of the most famous footballers of Paraguay. He was a regular player of the national team. Three times (2000, 2002, 2003 ) he was elected Player of the Year in Paraguay and once, in 2002, the CONMEBOL Player of the Year.

He played from January 1995 to June 2005 for the Mexican first division club Deportivo Toluca, where he shot 58 goals for his club in the season 2002/2003. Previously, he worked for Olimpia Asunción and Universidad Católica and the early 1990s for the Swiss club FC St. Gallen tradition. Cardozo began his career in 1986 as a 15- year-old River Plate de Paraguay. Most recently, he played until 2006 for San Lorenzo in Argentina.

At the Olympic football tournament in Athens in 2004, in which the Albirrojos surprisingly won the silver medal, he finished with five goals 2nd place scorer.

Shortly after the end of his career he was engaged in the coaching staff of Olimpia Asunción. In August 2011, he became a coach for the Mexican club Querétaro FC.

• National football team (Paraguay )
• Paraguayan
• South America's Footballer of the Year
• Olympian (Paraguay )
• Born in 1971
• Man