Paraguayan Footballer of the Year

The Paraguayan Footballer of the Year is an award given to the best Paraguayan professional football player every year. The award began officially in 1997 and it is presented by Paraguayan newspaper Diario ABC Color. Players that participate in this award can play in any professional football club in the world (they don't necessarily have to be Paraguayan football clubs) and have to be either Paraguayan-born or Paraguayan-naturalised players.

Winners

Year	Footballer	Team
1997	Carlos Gamarra	Benfica
1998	Carlos Gamarra	Corinthians
1999	Roque Santa Cruz	Olimpia Bayern Munich
2000	José Cardozo	Toluca
2001	Roberto Acuña	Real Zaragoza
2002	José Cardozo	Toluca
2003	José Cardozo	Toluca
2004	Justo Villar	Newell's Old Boys
2005	Julio dos Santos	Cerro Porteño
2006	Óscar Cardozo	Nacional Newell's Old Boys
2007	Salvador Cabañas	América
2008	Claudio Morel Rodríguez	Boca Juniors
2009	Óscar Cardozo	Benfica
2010	Lucas Barrios	Borussia Dortmund
2011	Pablo Zeballos	Olimpia
2012	Pablo Aguilar	Sportivo Luqueño Tijuana
2013	Ángel Romero	Cerro Porteño
2014	Fernando Fernández	Guaraní
2015	Derlis Gonzalez[1]	Dynamo Kiev

• Note: the 1999 winner, Roque Santa Cruz, appears both as a Club Olimpia and Bayern Munich player because he played the first half of 1999 in Olimpia of Asunción before eventually being transferred to Bayern Munich in the second half of 1999. The same applies for the 2006 winner.

References

External links

• Diario ABC Color Website