Édgar Barreto

Edgar Osvaldo Barreto ( born July 15, 1984 in Asunción ) is a Paraguayan football player. His brother Diego is also a professional football player.

Career

Association

Barreto was already in his youth as a great talent and was already as a youth player on the watch list of international associations. Therefore, after just 26 games in the first division of Paraguay during peak club Cerro Porteño from Asunción, he received a four-year contract with the Dutch Ehrendivisionär NEC Nijmegen. There was the variable midfielder, who also charges at Right Wing before, an important key players. For the season 2007/ 08 he moved to Reggina Calcio.

After two seasons at Reggina, where Barreto managed to become a performer, he was engaged in July 2009 from Atalanta Bergamo. After 2009, he played four league appearances for Atalanta until the end of October, he retired on 28 October 2009 in the away match against Livorno a foot injury. Thus it fell out about four months. Even after relegation to Serie B at the end of the season 2009/10 he remained faithful to Atalanta and managed his team its chances of promotion. He then moved on to league rivals Palermo.

National

Edgar Barreto went through the youth teams of his country from U17 upwards with great success. 2001 and 2003 he represented Paraguay at the Junior World Championships. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens he won the Olympic team silver medal. In the same year he also made ​​his debut in the senior team. There he also played in the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany. In the World Cup squad in Paraguay, he was the second youngest player in his country and came in two World Cup matches are used.

Title / successes

• Paraguayan Champion 2002, 2003 ( Libertad Asunción )
• Mexican Apertura champions 2005
• Finals CONCACAF Champions Cup 2006