Clemente Juan Rodríguez (born 31 July 1981) is an Argentine professional footballer. He is a right-footed player and can play on either flank, especially as a left back.

Career

Club

Born in

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, Rodríguez made his league debut for

Boca Juniors Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine sports club headquartered in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its professional football team which, since its promotion in 1913, has always played in the A ...

in a 2–1 away defeat to

Chacarita Juniors Club Atlético Chacarita Juniors (usually known simply as Chacarita) is an Argentine football club headquartered in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires, while the stadium is located in Villa Maipú, General San Martín Partido of Greater Buenos Aires. ...

on 10 December 2000. He went on to establish himself as an important player in the Boca Juniors team that won a host of national and international tournament in the early 2000s. In 2003, he was part of the Boca team that won the Intercontinental Cup. In 2004, he signed for Spartak Moscow, but returned to Boca on loan for the 2007 Clausura (spring championship). For the 2007–08 season he joined Spanish side

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on loan. In August 2009 he returned to Argentina to play for

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. Subsequently, in August 2010, he returned for a third period with Boca Juniors. On 24 June 2013,

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the Ga ...

signed Rodríguez to a two-year contract. On 7 April 2014, after almost one year playing for São Paulo, Rodríguez, along with

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, was removed from the main staff of the club, and sent on loan to Boca Juniors. Rodríguez, who had a contract with the club until June 2015, will therefore no longer play for São Paulo. Having announced his move to Bolivian club Ciclon de Tárija on 3 September 2020, it was revealed at the end of the same month, that Rodríguez had joined

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International

Rodríguez was part of the gold medal winning Argentine Olympic football team at the 2004 Summer Olympics and has played for the full Argentina national team on an infrequent basis since 2003. He was called by coach

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to play in the

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Career statistics

International

Honours

Club

Boca Juniors * Primera División: 2000 Apertura, 2003 Apertura, 2011 Apertura *

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

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* Intercontinental Cup:

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: 2011–12

International

Argentina Olympic team *

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Gold Medal:

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

References

External links

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Argentine primera statistics
at Futbol XXI
Rodriguez, Clemente Juan
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