Claudio Morel Rodríguez

Claudio Morel Rodríguez

Personal information
Full name	Claudio Marcelo Morel Rodríguez
Date of birth	2 February 1978 (1978-02-02) (age 33)
Place of birth	Asunción, Paraguay
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Left back
Club information
Current club	Deportivo La Coruña
Number	3
Youth career
1995–1998	San Lorenzo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1998–2004	San Lorenzo	135	(2)
2004–2010	Boca Juniors	149	(1)
2010–	Deportivo La Coruña	19	(0)
National team‡
1999–	Paraguay	35	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 September 2011. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 8 June 2010

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Morel and the second or maternal family name is Rodríguez.

Claudio Marcelo Morel Rodríguez (born 2 February 1978 in Asunción) is a Paraguayan footballer. He currently plays for Deportivo de La Coruña in Spain. He also plays as a left back for the Paraguay national team. He is the son of ex-Paraguayan footballer Eugenio Morel.

Career

Club career

San Lorenzo

Morel Rodríguez started his career in Argentina with San Lorenzo in the Primera División. In the 2000–01 season he won the Clausura with San Lorenzo, and in 2001 he helped them win the Copa Mercosur, beating Brazilian club Flamengo in the final.

He scored his first goal for the club on 5 October 2002 in a 2–1 win over Newell's Old Boys at the Estadio Pedro Bidegain.^[1] He won the 2002 Copa Sudamericana with the club, beating Atlético Nacional of Colombia 4–0 in the final in November 2002.^[2]

He scored one more goal for San Lorenzo also in the 2002–03 season, and also against Newell's Old Boys, in a 2–1 defeat on 2 May 2003 at the Estadio Newell's Old Boys.^[3]

Boca Juniors

He moved to Boca Juniors in 2004 and made his Boca debut in a 0–0 draw against Lanús on 15 August 2004.^[4] His first trophy with Boca came in 2004 when the club won the Copa Sudamericana, by beating Bolivian club Bolivar 2–1 over two legs in the final. In 2005 he won the Recopa Sudamericana and the Copa Sudamericana as well as winning both the 2005 Apertura and the 2006 Clausura in the 2005–2006 season. He won the Recopa Sudamericana 2006 with Boca, beating São Paulo 4–3 on aggregate.

On 10 February 2007, Morel scored his first goal with Boca Juniors in a 4–0 victory over Banfield,^[5] later that year in December he played in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan and helped Boca to the runners-up spot, losing to Italian club A.C. Milan 4–2 in the final.

He was runner-up behind fellow Paraguayan Salvador Cabañas in the 2007 South American Footballer of the Year award. He was also selected in the "Ideal Eleven of South America in 2007^[6]". In August 2008 he helped Boca win the 2008 Recopa Sudamericana, beating fellow Argentine club Arsenal 5–3 on aggregate. In December 2008 he was chosen as the Paraguayan footballer of the year by the press.^[7]

On 20 June 2010, prior to Paraguay's group match against Slovakia at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Boca Juniors announced they would not renew Rodríguez' contract.^[8]

International career

He made his international debut in 1999. He played in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers, and has played in the qualifying games for the 2010 World Cup.

Honours

San Lorenzo

• Argentine Primera División: 2001 Clausura
• Copa Mercosur: 2001
• Copa Sudamericana: 2002

Boca Juniors

• Argentine Primera División: 2005 Apertura, 2006 Clausura, 2008 Apertura
• Copa Sudamericana: 2004, 2005
• Recopa Sudamericana: 2005, 2006, 2008
• Copa Libertadores: 2007

Individual

• Paraguayan Footballer of the Year: 2008

References

1. ^ "Claudio Morel Rodríguez 05/10/2002 (San Lorenzo)". The Guardian. 5 October 2002. http://guardian.touch-line.com/StatsCentre.asp?Lang=0&mTEID=3377&Season=2002%20-%202003&CTID=60&CPID=137&TEID=3364&RFID=&PLID=551828&MAID=313389&ListType=9&pStr=Match_Details&t=3. Retrieved 2008-10-30. 
2. ^ "Consagratoria goleada de San Lorenzo en Medellín" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 28 November 2002. Archived from the original on 2008-08-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20080804064629/http://www.conmebol.com/articulos_ver.jsp?id=47749&slangab=S. Retrieved 2008-10-30. 
3. ^ "Claudio Morel Rodríguez 02/05/2003 (San Lorenzo)". The Guardian. 2 May 2003. http://guardian.touch-line.com/StatsCentre.asp?Lang=0&mTEID=3377&Season=2002%20-%202003&CTID=60&CPID=137&TEID=3364&RFID=&PLID=551828&MAID=321165&ListType=9&pStr=Match_Details&t=3. Retrieved 2008-10-30. 
4. ^ "Morel Rodríguez, Claudio Marcelo". Club Atlético Boca Juniors. Archived from the original on 2008-08-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20080804030106/http://www.bocajuniors.com.ar/english/futbol_prof_plantel_ficha.php?id=32. Retrieved 2008-10-30. 
5. ^ "Sólo faltó Román" (in Spanish). Diario Olé. 10 February 2007. http://edant.ole.com.ar/notas/2007/02/10/um/01361208.html. Retrieved 1 May 2010. 
6. ^ "Salvador Cabañas was chosen as "Footballer of America" 2007". CONMEBOL. 2 January 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-08-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20080804072541/http://www.conmebol.com/articulos_ver.jsp?id=61753&slangab=E. Retrieved 2008-10-30. 
7. ^ Morel Rodríguez gana el Premio ABC Color - Diario ABC Color
8. ^ http://www.wsc.co.uk/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,73/func,view/catid,34/id,396537/

External links

• Deportivo official profile (Spanish)
• Argentine Primera statistics (Spanish)
• BDFutbol profile
• Claudio Morel Rodríguez at National-Football-Teams.com
• 2010 FIFA World Cup profile
• Claudio Morel Rodríguez – FIFA competition record
• Transfermarkt profile
• Statistics at the Guardian StatsCentre

Persondata
Name	Morel Rodriguez, Claudio Marcelo
Alternative names
Short description	Footballer
Date of birth	2 February 1978
Place of birth	Asunción, Paraguay
Date of death
Place of death