Edison Giménez

Edison Giménez
Personal information
Full name	Mario Edison Giménez
Date of birth	5 April 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth	Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
2002–2003	General Díaz
2004–2006	2 de Mayo
2005	→ Candelaria (loan)
2007	Colo-Colo
2007–2008	Olimpia
2009	Deportivo Pereira
2010	Independiente Medellín
2010–2011	Deportivo Cali
2011	Sportivo Luqueño
2011	Imbabura SC
2012	La Equidad
2013	Itagüí
2013–2014	Nacional Potosí
2014–2015	Deportivo Pereira
2016	Unión Magdalena
Total
International career
2006–2007	Paraguay
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mario Edison Giménez (born 5 April 1981 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a former Paraguayan footballer who played as a striker.

Career

He began his football career at 2 de Mayo of the first tier of his country, in where scored 25 goals in 31 appearances during two seasons. In January 2007, was sold to Chilean Primera División club Colo-Colo, for a US$400.000 transfer fee.^[1] After a regular pass at the Chilean club that was runner-up of the 2006 Copa Sudamericana, he joined to Paraguayan powerhouse Club Olimpia along with his countrymen Gilberto Velásquez in June, after of proclaiming champion of the Apertura Tournament.

In January 2009, he traveled to Colombia and signed for Deportivo Pereira of the country's first tier, after having also spells at Independiente Medellín and Deportivo Cali of the same country. In 2011, he returned to Paraguay and joined to Sportivo Luqueño, after moving to Ecuadorian side Imbabura SC. The next season, Giménez signed for La Equidad.

Giménez also represented the Paraguay national football team in 2006, playing after the FIFA World Cup of that year. He scored one international goal in a 3–2 defeat with Chile at Estadio Sausalito during a friendly match. And also in 2007 playing another friendly against México in Monterrey, he entered the 77th minute by Salvador Cabañas being sent off eight minutes later.