Rolando García Guerreño

{{short description|Paraguayan footballer (born 1990)}}

{{For|the Chilean player|Rolando García (Chilean footballer)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Rolando García

| image =

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| fullname = Rolando García Guerreño

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|2|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = San Estanislao, Paraguay

| height = 1.85 m

| position = Centre-back

| currentclub = Nacional

| clubnumber = 5

| youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 =

| years1 = 2006–2010 |clubs1 = 2 de Mayo |caps1 = 55 |goals1 = 3

| years2 = 2010–2013 |clubs2 = Defensa y Justicia |caps2 = 87 |goals2 = 5

| years3 = 2013–2014 |clubs3 = Lobos BUAP |caps3 = 21 |goals3 = 2

| years4 = 2014 |clubs4 = Godoy Cruz |caps4 = 15 |goals4 = 1

| years5 = 2015–2017 |clubs5 = Unión Santa Fe |caps5 = 52 |goals5 = 2

| years6 = 2017–2019 |clubs6 = Lanús |caps6 = 46 |goals6 = 0

| years7 = 2020 |clubs7 = Guaraní |caps7 = 13 |goals7 = 0

| years8 = 2021 |clubs8 = Patronato |caps8 = 29 |goals8 = 0

| years9 = 2022– |clubs9 = Nacional |caps9 = 6 |goals9 = 0

| nationalyears1 = 2009 |nationalteam1 = Paraguay U20 |nationalcaps1 = 1 |nationalgoals1 = 0

| nationalyears2 = 2018– |nationalteam2 = Paraguay |nationalcaps2 = 0 |nationalgoals2 = 0

| club-update = 20:48, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

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Rolando García Guerreño (born 10 February 1990 in Asunción, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Club Nacional.{{cite news|title=Rolando García profile|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/rolando-garcia-guerrero/116230/|accessdate=19 October 2016|work=Soccerway|date=19 October 2016}}{{cite news|title=Leonel Di Plácido profile|url=http://www.espnfc.co.uk/player/206679/rolando-garcia|accessdate=16 October 2016|work=ESPN FC|date=16 October 2016}}

Career

=Club=

Rolando García started his career in 2009 with Paraguayan club 2 de Mayo, his stay with the club was short as he left a year later to join Primera B Nacional team Defensa y Justicia; his debut for Defensa y Justicia came on 6 February 2010 against San Martín de Tucumán. It wasn't until the 2011–12 season that García scored his first goal for the club, in a 3–0 home win over Chacarita Juniors in August 2011. In his following and final season with the club, 2012–13, he scored 4 goals in 32 appearances as they finished sixth. He departed Defensa y Justicia in 2013 and subsequently joined Ascenso MX club Lobos BUAP. He remained with the Mexicans for one season before leaving as he made 21 league appearances and scored two goals.

Godoy Cruz became his fourth club in 2014 but, after four months and 15 games/1 goal, García left to join another Argentine team, Unión Santa Fe. His first match for his latest team came on 15 February 2015 against Huracán.

=International=

García has represented Paraguay once at international level, with his only cap so far coming with the Paraguay U20s when he was called up for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup and played once; versus South Korea U20s.

Career statistics

{{Updated|match played on 24 February 2018}}{{Soccerway |id=116230 |accessdate=25 February 2018}}

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|+Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

rowspan=2|Clubrowspan=2|Seasoncolspan=3|Leaguecolspan=2|Cupcolspan=2|Othercolspan=2|Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
rowspan=5|Defensa y Justicia2009–10rowspan=4|Primera B Nacional

|9

0000090
2010–11

|20

00000200
2011–12

|26

10000261
2012–13

|32

41000334
colspan=2|Total

!87

51000885
Lobos BUAP2013–14Ascenso MX

|21

23000242
Godoy Cruz2014Argentine Primera División

|15

1001{{efn|Appearance in Copa Sudamericana}}0161
rowspan=4|Unión Santa Fe2015rowspan=3|Argentine Primera División

|26

12000281
2016

|13

14000171
2016–17

|13

00000130
colspan=2|Total

!52

26000582
rowspan=3|Lanús2016–17rowspan=2|Argentine Primera División

|9

0003{{efn|Appearances in Copa Libertadores}}0120
2017–18

|9

0109{{efn|Eight appearances in Copa Libertadores, One appearance in Torneos de Verano}}0190
colspan=2|Total

!18

010120320
colspan=3|Career totals

!193

1011013021710

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