Rogelio Delgado

Rogelio Delgado
Personal information
Full name	Rogelio Wilfrido Delgado Casco
Date of birth	12 October 1959 (age 64)
Place of birth	Asunción, Paraguay
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1974–1976	Olimpia Asunción
Senior career*
Years	Team
1976–1987	Olimpia Asunción
1976	→ Enrique Happ (loan)
1987–1992	Independiente
1992–1994	Universidad de Chile
1995	Colo-Colo
International career
1983–1990	Paraguay
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of April 2008

Rogelio Wilfrido Delgado Casco (born 12 October 1959) is a retired football central defender from Paraguay.

Club career[edit]

At the club level, Delgado played for Olimpia Asunción, where he won the Copa Libertadores and Intercontinental Cup in 1979, and six Paraguayan league titles.

He also played for Independiente of Argentina, where he won the 1988–1989 league championship, and for Universidad de Chile, where he won the 1994 Chilean league championship.

After retiring as a player, Delgado took up coaching. He came out of retirement to play one game for Colo-Colo in the 1995 edition of the Supercopa.

Delgado was a member of the Paraguayan squad at the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship. He made his full international debut for the Paraguay national football team on 2 June 1983 in a friendly match against Uruguay (0-0). He obtained a total number of 53 international caps, scoring six goals for the national side.^[1] He was a member of the Paraguay squad at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He also played in three editions of the Copa América in 1983,^[2] 1987^[3] and 1989.^[4]