Joaquín Botero

Joaquín Botero Vaca (born December 10, 1977 in La Paz) is a retired Bolivian footballer who played as a striker.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Botero and the second or maternal family name is Vaca.
Joaquín Botero
Personal information
Full name Joaquín Botero Vaca
Date of birth (1977-12-10) December 10, 1977
Place of birth La Paz, Bolivia
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997 Mariscal Braun 22 (18)
1998 Deportivo Municipal 24 (18)
1999–2003 Bolívar 132 (111)
2003–2006 UNAM 81 (21)
2006 San Lorenzo de Almagro 2 (0)
2007 Deportivo Táchira 5 (0)
2008 Bolívar 25 (11)
2009–2010 Correcaminos UAT 28 (10)
2010 → Al Arabi (loan) 4 (3)
2011 San José 16 (8)
2013–2014 Sport Boys 20 (5)
Total 350 (198)
National team‡
1999–2009 Bolivia 48 (20)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of September 15, 2014
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of April 28, 2010

He is the second all-time top goalscorer for the Bolivia national team with 20 goals, and was the top goalscorer in world football in the 2002 season, with 49 goals scored for Club Bolívar.[1]

Club career

After scoring 133 goals for Bolívar and becoming the club's 2nd highest goalscorer of all time behind Luis Fernando Salinas,[2] he left the club to play abroad.

Botero's first foreign club was the Mexican side Pumas. In his first season with Pumas, the 2003 Apertura, he scored 3 goals in 17 games. After scoring another 3 in 9 games in the 2004 Clausura, Botero broke out in the 2004 Apertura, registering 11 goals in 19 games.

In 2006, he joined San Lorenzo de Almagro of the Primera División de Argentina and in 2007 he played for Deportivo Táchira of Venezuela. After an unsuccessful stint in both clubs, Botero returned to Bolívar as a free agent in 2008.

He joined Correcaminos UAT for the Clausura 2009 season, marking his return to Mexico.

In January 2010, he was loaned out to Al Arabi Kuwait for $170,000. He made 4 appearances and scored 3 goals.

On 14 January 2011, Botero made official a move to club San José, thus returning to play in his country.

International career

Since 1999, Botero was a regular player for the Bolivia national team, including participations in the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup, in which he played in all three of Bolivia's group stage matches, the 2001 Copa América and the 2004 Copa América. On 1 April 2009, Botero scored a hat-trick for Bolivia in a historic 6–1 victory over Argentina in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier,[3][4] Argentina's first loss under the recently appointed manager, Diego Maradona. On 15 May 2009, Botero surprisingly announced the end of his era with the national team, putting as an excuse that his motivation "was not there anymore."[5] In his ten years playing for Bolivia, Botero earned a total of 48 caps and scored 20 goals, becoming the highest scorer in the national team's history, before being surpassed by Marcelo Moreno in 2020.[6] He represented his country in 30 FIFA World Cup qualification matches, scoring 16 goals.[7]

International goals
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1. 5 March 2000Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia Haiti5-19–2Friendly
2.8-2
3.9-2
4.25 April 2001 Argentina3–13–32002 World Cup qualification
5. 3 June 2001 Venezuela2-05–0
6.4-0
7. 10 September 2003 Colombia2-04–02006 World Cup qualification
8.3-0
9.4-0
10.18 November 2003Estadio José Romero, Maracaibo, Venezuela Venezuela0-12–1
11.6 July 2004Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru Peru0-12–22004 Copa América
12.9 October 2004Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia Peru1–01–02006 World Cup qualification
13. 18 June 2008 Paraguay1-04–22010 World Cup qualification
14.3-1
15.6 September 2008Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito, Ecuador Ecuador1-13–1
16. 11 October 2008Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia Peru1-03–0
17.2-0
18. 1 April 2009 Argentina2-16–1
19.4-1
20.5-1

Honours

Club

Individual

References
  1. rsssf: World league topscorers
  2. Bolívar all time topscorers
  3. "Dismal Argentina are hit for six in Bolivia". CNN. 1 April 2009. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  4. "Maradona's Argentina hit for six". BBC. 1 April 2009. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  5. "No hay vuelta atrás". eldeber.com.bo (in Spanish). 20 May 2009. Archived from the original on 20 May 2009. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  6. Bolivia - Record International Players Archived 9 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Joaquín Botero – FIFA competition record
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