Rubén Darío Velázquez Bermúdez (born December 18, 1975) is a retired

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Club career

Velázquez was part of the

Once Caldas Once Caldas S.A., simply known as Once Caldas, is a professional Colombian Association football, football team based in Manizales, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. The club plays its home games at Estadio Palogrande. The club wa ...

squad that won the 2004

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title, surely the most unlikely team ever crowned champions of South America. In 2006 Velázquez left Colombia for the first time in his career to join Colón de Santa Fe.

External links

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BDFA profile
1975 births Living people Colombian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Atlético Nacional footballers Once Caldas footballers Copa Libertadores–winning players Cortuluá footballers Real Cartagena footballers Club Atlético Colón footballers Deportivo Cali footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup players Colombia men's international footballers People from Risaralda Department 21st-century Colombian sportsmen {{Colombia-footy-midfielder-stub