Samuel Caballero
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jorge Samuel Caballero Álvarez | ||
| Date of birth | 24 December 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Puerto Lempira, Honduras | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1994 | Deportivo Melgar | ||
| 1994–2001 | Olimpia | 66 | (11) |
| 2001–2004 | Udinese | 25 | (2) |
| 2004 | Salernitana | 0 | (0) |
| 2004 | Defensor | 0 | (0) |
| 2005 | Chicago Fire | 17 | (1) |
| 2006–2010 | Changchun Yatai | 110 | (11) |
| 2011 | Necaxa | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2008 | Honduras U-23 | 3 | (0) |
| 1998–2008 | Honduras | 71 | (11) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of end of 2010 season. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2009-03-28 |
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Jorge Samuel Caballero Álvarez (born 24 December 1974 in Puerto Lempira, Gracias a Dios department, Honduras) is a retired Honduran football defender.
He currently is the president of Honduran national league club Deportes Savio.
Caballero began his career with hometown club Deportivo Melgar. He then joined Olimpia, playing with the team from 1996 until transferring overseas in 2001. The central defender moved to Serie A to play for Udinese, where his second season was hampered by a long knee injury lay-off. He would remain in Udine until moving to Salernitana in 2004. He only played in 2 cup games for them and then signed for Nacional in Uruguay, but the move did not materialise since Nacional had too many foreigners in their squad, so he joined Defensor Sporting instead. In Uruguay he was unlucky with injuries again.
At the start of 2005, he moved to Major League Soccer and the Chicago Fire. Caballero had a disappointing 2005 with the club, and was released. He spent the 2006 preseason with the Colorado Rapids.
Caballero had a lengthy spell with Chinese side Changchun Yatai and played in the 2008 AFC Champions League with them. In the 2008-2009 Winter Market it was reported that two teams from Honduras, Marathon and Olimpia, were interested in the signing of Samuel Caballero after he publicly stated his desire to return to Honduras in order to be close to family and return to the National Team. However, the player still had a contract with the Chinese Club Changchun Yatai and stated that if he did not receive any offers he would return to the club and complete his contract.
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