Sergio Díaz (Paraguayan footballer)

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Díaz and the second or maternal family name is Velázquez.
Sergio Díaz
Personal information
Full nameSergio Ismael Díaz Velázquez
Date of birth5 March 1998
Place of birthItauguá, Paraguay
Playing positionForward
Club information
Current team
Cerro Porteño
Number22
Youth career
Tacuary
–2014Cerro Porteño
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2014–Cerro Porteño23(9)
National team‡
2015–Paraguay U207(2)
2015–Paraguay U174(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 February 2015.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 8 February 2015

Sergio Ismael Díaz Velázquez (born 5 March 1998) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Cerro Porteño and the Paraguay national under-20 football team.

Career

Youth and early career

Díaz is present for one year with Club Tacuary in the school of football, then passes to Cerro Porteño.[1] Díaz arrives at Cerro Porteño aged 10, at the club's school of football.[2] He marks approximately 30 goals in the Cerro Porteño U15 team and then passes to the reserve-team. He was coached by Diego Gavilán in the U15 team.[3] In 2013, he is referred to as the Sergio Aguero of Cerro Porteño as the young was practicing with the reserve-team and then joined one practice session with the first-team of Cerro Porteño.[4]

2014 season

The player debuts as a 15 year old in the Primera División Paraguaya, on 27 June 2014, in a 2-1 home victory against Club General Díaz, substituted onto the field in the 84th minute for Guillermo Beltrán.[5] Díaz then scores against Nacional Asunción in September, giving Cerro Porteño the victory.[6] The player scored a double in a 2-0 home victory against 3 de Febrero on 8 October 2014.[7] Against Boca Juniors in the Copa Sudamericana, the player wears the number# 22 jersey.[8]

During his performance at the 2015 South American Youth Football Championship in January 2015, it was reported that both Liverpool F.C. and Manchester United F.C. were chasing his signature.[9]

2015 season

In Diaz's debut for Cerro Porteño in the 2015 Primera División Paraguaya season, he scored one goal in his side's 3-0 away victory against Sportivo Luqueño on 14 February 2015.[10]

International career

In January 2015, Díaz is selected to represent Paraguay U20 at the 2015 South American Youth Football Championship.[11][12]

References

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