Edgar Barreto

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Edgar Barreto
Personal information
Full name	Edgar Osvaldo Barreto
Date of birth	July 15, 1985
Place of birth	Asuncion, Paraguay
Height	178 cm
Position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	NEC Nijmegen
Number	8
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
2002-2003 2004-	Cerro Porteño NEC Nijmegen	26 (4) 59 (8)
National team**
2004-	Paraguay	17 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 August, 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of 2 August, 2006.

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Paraguay
Men's Football
Silver	2004 Athens	Team Competition

Edgar Osvaldo Barreto (born July 15, 1984) is a Paraguayan football player who, as of 2004, is playing for NEC Nijmegen in The Netherlands.

He was part of the silver medal-winning Paraguayan 2004 Olympic football team, who achieved a quarter-final place with two victories in the qualifying round, and, having finished second in the league, beat South Korea in the quarter-finals, and Iraq in the semi-finals, before losing to Argentina in the final. He alo capped for Paraguay u-20 at 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship. He is notorious for his bad sportmanship after his dive in a friendly game between Australia that saw Tim Cahill got a yellow card, despite angers from the Paraguayan bench toward Cahill a replay showed how Barreto play-acted and over emphasised a minor contact, booes from the crowd toward Barreto suggested how Latin American players' dive hurted the Australians after Fabio Grosso's dive during the World Cup 2006.

	Paraguay squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
1 Villar | 2 Núñez | 3 Toledo | 4 Gamarra | 5 Cáceres | 6 Bonet | 7 Cabañas | 8 Barreto | 9 Santa Cruz | 10 Acuña | 11 Gavilán | 12 Gómez | 13 Paredes | 14 da Silva | 15 Manzur | 16 Riveros | 17 Montiel | 18 Valdez | 19 dos Santos | 20 López | 21 Caniza | 22 Bobadilla | 23 Cuevas | Coach: Ruiz