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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) 10 December 1977 (age 48)
Place of birth La Paz, Bolivia
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position Striker
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)
International career
1999–2009 Bolivia 48 (20)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Joaquín Botero Vaca (born 10 December 1977) is a Bolivian former professional footballer who played as a striker.[1]

He is the second all-time top goalscorer for the Bolivia national team with 20 goals and was awarded the World's Best Top Division Goal Scorer by the IFFHS for scoring 49 goals in a season Club Bolívar in 2002.[2]

Club career

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Botero not only played in Bolivia's football league, he also played abroad, in the football leagues of Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela.[3]

After scoring 133 goals for Club Bolívar and becoming the club's second highest goalscorer of all time behind Luis Fernando Salinas,[4] he left the club to play abroad.

Botero's first foreign club was the Mexican team Pumas. In his first season with Pumas, the 2003 Apertura, he scored three goals in 17 games. After scoring another three in nine 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 the Mexican team Correcaminos UAT for the Clausura 2009 season, marking his return to Mexico.[5]

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

In 2011, Botero returned to his country to play for San José and Sport Boys Warnes; in the latter, he was the author of two goals that allowed promotion of the team to the First Division of Bolivia for the first time. In this team, he played until his retirement in 2014.

For six years and after his retirement, Botero decided to dedicate himself to personal activities and projects. However, in 2020 he announced his return to the fields, playing for Club Universidad San Francisco de Asís of the Primera A de Potosí in Tupiza, Bolivia.[3]

International career

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Since 1999, Botero was a regular player for the Bolivia national team, including participation 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,[6][1][7] 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."[8][1]

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.[9]

Botero represented his country in 30 FIFA World Cup qualification matches, scoring 16 goals.[10]

Career statistics

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Appearances and goals by national team and year[11]
National team Year Apps Goals
Bolivia 1999 3 0
2000 6 3
2001 7 3
2002 2 0
2003 4 4
2004 10 2
2005 5 0
2008 9 5
2009 2 3
Total 48 20
Scores and results list Bolivia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Botero goal.
List of international goals scored by Joaquín Botero[11]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 5 March 2000 Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia File:Flag of Haiti.svg Haiti 5-1 9–2 Friendly
2. 8-2
3. 9-2
4. 25 April 2001 File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina 3–1 3–3 2002 World Cup qualification
5. 3 June 2001 File:Flag of Venezuela (state).svg Venezuela 2-0 5–0
6. 4-0
7. 10 September 2003 File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia 2-0 4–0 2006 World Cup qualification
8. 3-0
9. 4-0
10. 18 November 2003 Estadio José Romero, Maracaibo, Venezuela File:Flag of Venezuela (state).svg Venezuela 0-1 2–1
11. 6 July 2004 Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru File:Flag of Peru (state).svg Peru 0-1 2–2 2004 Copa América
12. 9 October 2004 Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia File:Flag of Peru (state).svg Peru 1–0 1–0 2006 World Cup qualification
13. 18 June 2008 File:Flag of Paraguay.svg Paraguay 1-0 4–2 2010 World Cup qualification
14. 3-1
15. 6 September 2008 Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito, Ecuador File:Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador 1-1 3–1
16. 11 October 2008 Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia File:Flag of Peru (state).svg Peru 1-0 3–0
17. 2-0
18. 1 April 2009 File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina 2-1 6–1
19. 4-1
20. 5-1

Honours

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Bolívar

UNAM

Individual

See also

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References

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  2. ^ rsssf: World league topscorers
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  4. ^ Bolívar all time topscorers
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  9. ^ Bolivia – Record International Players Archived 9 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Joaquín Botero – FIFA competition record (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
  11. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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