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Former footballer Juan Carlos “Nene” Diaz He died in the early hours of this Saturday in his native Argentina, at 67 years of age.
Díaz, who was confined in a medical center for health problems (lung and heart, according to your family)he played for the Colombian clubs Atlético Bucaramanga, Millonarios, DIM (in two periods), Once Caldas and Cúcuta Deportivo.
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It was in the Bucaramanga team, recent champion of the Colombian League, that He arrived in Colombia in 1981 and with whom he advanced to the final phase in the 1984 tournament.From there he went to Millonarios and was part of the champion rosters of 1987 and 1988, and then joined the Independent Medellin in 1989 in the company of goalkeeper Fabio “La Gallina” Calle who also came from the Bogotá club.
Luis Octavio Ormeño Gómez, Carlos Álvarez, Víctor González Scott, José Luis García, Juan Carlos Gamo Estrada, Diego Osorio also performed on that team; Javier Arango, Óscar Pareja, José, Luis Pino, Darío Chusco Sierra, Carlos Uribe, Carlos Jiménez, Barrabás Gómez, Jorge Daniel Jara, Wilson Danovis Muñoz, Carleo Castro and Héctor Mario Bortero, among others.
After playing for the Reds he went to Once Caldas in 1990 and then to Cúcuta, but The Powerful rescued him for the 1994 Copa Libertadores, a squad that was also reinforced with Eduardo Pimentel, Wilson Cano, Pablo Zegarra and Omar Perez.
After completing his career as a player at Táchira in Venezuela, he dedicated himself to technical direction in his country, one of them Andes, where he trained as a player. In Colombia he coached Cúcuta twice between 2011 and 2012, and Patriotas Boyacá in 2013, according to the newspaper El Tiempo.
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