The greatest Bolivian soccer player

Marco Etcheverry

Marco Antonio Etcheverry Vargas (born 26 September 1970) is a retired Bolivian footballer who played as a forward. A creative playmaker, he is conside...

Marco Antonio Etcheverry Vargas (born 26 September 1970) is a retired Bolivian footballer who played as a forward. A creative playmaker, he is considered one of the greatest Bolivian players of all time.[2] Etcheverry played for D.C. United of Major League Soccer from 1996 to 2003. He helped D.C United win eight trophies during that time, and was nominated to the MLS Best XI in four consecutive seasons from 1996 to 1999. Etcheverry, is nicknamed El Diablo (The Devil). Etcheverry was trained at Bolivia's Tahuichi Academy, after which he played professionally with Bolivian sides (Destroyers, Bolívar, Oriente Petrolero), Spain (Albacete), Chile (Colo-Colo), Colombia (América de Cali) and Ecuador (Barcelona, Emelec). Etchverry joined D.C. United of Major League Soccer in its inaugural season of 1996, and led the team to three MLS Cups and was named MLS MVP in 1998. In eight years with the team, Etcheverry played 191 league games, scoring 34 goals and registering 101 assists (the games and assists were DC records). He retired at the end of the 2003 season.

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Joaquín Botero

Joaquín Botero Vaca (born December 10, 1977 in La Paz) is a retired Bolivian footballer who played as a striker. He is the second all-time top goal...

Joaquín Botero Vaca (born December 10, 1977 in La Paz) is a retired Bolivian footballer who played as a striker. He is the second all-time top goalscorer for the Bolivia national team with 20 goals, and was the top goalscorer in world football in the 2002 season, with 49 goals scored for Club Bolívar. After scoring 133 goals for Bolívar and becoming the club's 2nd highest goalscorer of all time behind Luis Fernando Salinas,[2] he left the club to play abroad. Botero's first foreign club was the Mexican side Pumas. In his first season with Pumas, the 2003 Apertura, he scored 3 goals in 17 games. After scoring another 3 in 9 games in the 2004 Clausura, Botero broke out in the 2004 Apertura, registering 11 goals in 19 games. In 2006, he joined San Lorenzo de Almagro of the Primera División de Argentina and in 2007 he played for Deportivo Táchira of Venezuela. After an unsuccessful stint in both clubs, Botero returned to Bolívar as a free agent in 2008. He joined Correcaminos UAT for the Clausura 2009 season, marking his return to Mexico. In January 2010, he was loaned out to Al Arabi Kuwait for $170,000. He made 4 appearances and scored 3 goals. On 14 January 2011, Botero made official a move to club San José, thus returning to play in his country.

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