Salvador Cabañas

Salvador Cabañas Ortega ( * August 5, 1980 in Asunción ) is a Paraguayan football player.

In youth played Cabañas, son of former professional football players Dionisio Cabanas, nor as an attacking midfielder, and he later became a real striker. In his home he was rather unremarkable at clubs like Club 12 de Octubre of Itaguá and Club Guaraní. After playing two years at Chilean capital club Audax Italiano came in 2003 with his move to the Primera División in Mexico his breakthrough.

In the Jaguares de Chiapas, he was in three years one of the most dangerous strikers of the league and scored 59 goals in 98 games. Twice he was top scorer in the league championship in six contests. In 2006 he moved to Champions' Cup winner Club América from Mexico City.

His career in the Paraguayan national team reflects its development. While he was in 1999 in the junior selection of his country at the Junior World Cup finals, but it took until 2004 that he came to his first senior international. When qualifying for the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany he was then fixed to the team and has been used in seven games. Although he drove in the World Cup squad Paraguay to Germany, he came in, among others, with the Bundesliga players Roque Santa Cruz and Nelson Valdez high class occupied storm his country not used.

January 25, 2010 it was announced that him in a bar in Mexico City against five clock in the morning (local time) on the toilet by a criminal nicknamed JJ was shot in the head. He suffered life-threatening injuries. As the local criminal police announced that the incident had taken place in the south of the Mexican capital. About the background of the fact nothing is known, however, two suspects were arrested at the scene. When the offender it was José Jorge Balderas.

On August 11, 2011, he made ​​his comeback after a roughly 18-month forced break in a charity match his club Club América against the national team of Paraguay. He played nine minutes each for both teams. In January, he signed a one-year contract with gambling at that time in the third Paraguayan league club 12 de Octubre, where he had begun his career.

Also in 2014, he plays for 12 de Octubre, however, is far from one-time performance. He has lost her about his ex-wife María Alonso Lorgia that the formerly common, estimated at a value of around five million dollars property lives in Asunción with the two children and Mía Ivonne Santiago, and his lawyer, his fortune. Cabañas is therefore dependent on the cooperation in the parental bakery next to the football career.

In March 2014 he signed with the fourth division club Tanabi in Sao Paulo a contract from 1 April 2014 after his previous club 12 de Octubre had continued employment Cabañas ' for the upcoming Apertura 2014 excluded due to the poor physical condition of the player. In Brazil became aware because of the TV reports to his employment in his parents' bakery on him, which is why you decided to convert at the local club's management to allow him a fresh start in football.

Achievements

• Chiapas Cup 2004, 2005 ( with the Jaguares )
• Golden Ball as the best striker in the Clausura 2008
• Copa América 2007 in Venezuela Participation
• World Cup participant in 2006 in Germany
• Scorer in Mexico in the Clausura 2006 with eleven goals
• South America's Footballer of the Year 2007.
• Scorer in the Copa Libertadores 2007 and 2008.
• Inter League 2008 ( with Club America )