Personal information | |||
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Full name | Pablo Daniel Zeballos Ocampos | ||
Date of birth | 4 March 1986 | ||
Place of birth | Vallemí, Paraguay | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Free Agent | ||
Youth career | |||
Sol de América | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005–2007 | Sol de América | 60 | (31) |
2006 | → Oriente Petrolero (loan) | 14 | (16) |
2008–2010 | Cruz Azul | 53 | (14) |
2010 | → Cerro Porteño (loan) | 44 | (24) |
2011–2012 | Olimpia Asunción | 62 | (31) |
2012–2014 | Krylya Sovetov | 19 | (1) |
2013 | → Emelec (loan) | 12 | (1) |
2014 | Botafogo | 30 | (6) |
2015–2016 | Atlético Nacional | 9 | (3) |
2015 | → Olimpia Asunción (loan) | 16 | (8) |
2016 | → Libertad (loan) | 15 | (1) |
2016 | Sportivo Luqueño | 4 | (2) |
2016–2017 | Al-Wakra | 0 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2008–2012 | Paraguay | 9 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 January 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 March 2013 |
Pablo Daniel Zeballos Ocampos (born 4 March 1986) is a Paraguayan football striker who currently plays for Al-Wakra in the Qatar Stars League. Zeballos represented the Paraguay national team from 2008 to 2012, featuring in the 2011 Copa América where Paraguay finished runners-up. In 2011, he was voted as the Paraguayan Footballer of the Year.
Zeballos started his career in the youth divisions of Sol de América where he played alongside José Ortigoza. He made his debut in 2005 and helped the team to win the Paraguayan División Intermedia tournament by being the team's top-scorer. He is rembembered for his fantastic goal against Club Cerro Corá at the last minute of the match.
In 2006, Zeballos was transfer to Bolivian club Oriente Petrolero on a 6–month loan period, where he became the top-scorer with 16 goals in 14 league appearances and helped the team reach second position during the 2006 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano Torneo Clausura.
Zeballos returned to Paraguay for the 2007 season and finished as the joint top goal scorer of the Primera Division top-scorer, along with Fabio Ramos of Club Nacional, with 15 goals.
His good form rewarded him with a transfer to Cruz Azul of Mexico. He debuted against San Luis F.C. in the Jornada 3 of the Clausura 2008, making his first goal in the Primera División de México one minute after being substituted in for Nicolás Vigneri. In the liguilla del futbol Mexicano he brought the team back up to beat Jaguares in quarter-finals and took them all the way to the final where they would lose.