Osvaldo Díaz
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Osvaldo Díaz (born 22 December 1981) is a retired Paraguayan footballer.
Career
Díaz began his career at Club Guaraní before moving in mid 2007 to Olimpia Asunción in the Paraguayan First Division.
On 1 February 2008 he was signed by AC Lugano, where he only played a total of 17 minutes in 3 games. Template:Citation needed
On 4 August, before the Summer Olympics began, he played in a preparation game against the Portugal of Cristiano Ronaldo in the city of Algarve, resulting in a 5–0 defeat.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Diaz was part of the silver medal-winning Paraguayan 2004 Olympic football team, which earned a quarter-final place with two victories in the qualifying round. Having finished second in the league, the squad later beat South Korea in the quarter-finals, and Iraq in the semi-finals, before losing to Argentina in the final.
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- 1981 births
- Living people
- Footballers from San Lorenzo, Paraguay
- Paraguayan men's footballers
- Paraguay men's under-20 international footballers
- Paraguay men's international footballers
- Paraguayan expatriate men's footballers
- Challenge League (Switzerland) players
- Paraguayan Primera División players
- Club Guaraní players
- Club Olimpia footballers
- Sportivo Luqueño players
- FC Lugano players
- Club Sportivo San Lorenzo footballers
- 12 de Octubre Football Club players
- Olympic footballers for Paraguay
- Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Paraguay
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Men's association football midfielders
- Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
- 21st-century Paraguayan sportsmen