Bolaños celebrating for Emelec in 2015
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Miller Alejandro Bolaños Reasco | ||
Date of birth | 1 June 1990 | ||
Place of birth | Esmeraldas, Ecuador | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker/Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Grêmio | ||
Number | 23 | ||
Youth career | |||
2003–2006 | Caribe Junior | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2006–2008 | Barcelona SC | 37 | (4) |
2009–2013 | LDU Quito | 80 | (18) |
2012–2015 | → Chivas USA (loan) | 29 | (3) |
2013–2015 | → Emelec (loan) | 76 | (44) |
2016– | Grêmio | 18 | (3) |
National team‡ | |||
2007 | Ecuador U17 | ||
2015– | Ecuador | 19 | (8) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 January 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16 November 2016 |
Miller Alejandro Bolaños Reasco (born 1 June 1990 in Esmeraldas) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a Striker for Grêmio of the Brazilian Série A.
Bolaños began his career in the youth ranks of Caribe Junior. In 2006 he joined Barcelona SC and made his professional debut the same year. In 2009 the promising forward was transferred to LDU Quito. On 29 August 2009 in a 4–0 win over LDU Portoviejo, Bolaños scored the 2,500th goal in LDU Quito's history. He was an important player for LDU Quito during the most glorious period of the club's history as he helped the Ecuadorian club capture the 2010 Serie A title,2009 Copa Sudamericana, and the 2009 and 2010 Recopa Sudamericana.
On 11 January 2012 it was announced that Bolaños would be joining Chivas USA in Major League Soccer, accompanying compatriot Oswaldo Minda. On 18 July, he scored his first MLS goal against the Portland Timbers at The Home Depot Center, finishing a Ryan Smith pass for the only goal of the game in the 16th minute.
Miller joined Emelec by loan on the summer of 2013. Though Miller only played 5 league games, he won the 2013 Ecuadorian Serie A season. Miller scored 19 league-goals in 36 games, including 2 goals in the season final match against club-rivals Barcelona SC, winning the 2014 Ecuadorian Serie A. Miller Bolaños became top Striker goal-scorer in the 2014 Copa Sudamericana with 5 goals. During the 2013 season he noticeably formed a successful striking partnership with Denis Stracqualursi which was known affectionately as Straq-Bol by Emelec fans. This was a play on words of Spag-Bol, the Italian pasta dish.