Marciano Saldías

Marciano Saldías
Personal information
Full name	Marciano Saldías Barba
Date of birth	April 25, 1966 (age 58)
Place of birth	Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Left-back
Senior career*
Years	Team
1984–1992	Oriente Petrolero
1992	Cerro Porteño
1993	Destroyers
1994–1996	Oriente Petrolero
1997	The Strongest
1998–1999	Aurora
International career
1984–1993	Bolivia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marciano Saldías Barba (born April 25, 1966, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a former Bolivian football defender who spent most of his career at Oriente Petrolero.

Club career

Saldías joined Oriente Petrolero in 1984. He along other important players like Erwin "Chichi" Romero, Luis Cristaldo and Celio Alves formed an exceptional team that represented Bolivia at club level in several Copa Libertadores editions of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Playing for Oriente, he won the national title in 1990. Saldías also had a brief spell with Paraguayan club Cerro Porteño in 1992. The following year he joined Destroyers before returning to Oriente for a second stint in 1994. The Strongest signed him in 1997, but he left after only one season with the atigrados. He retired from football in 1999 while playing for Club Aurora in Copa Simón Bolívar.

National team

He played for the Bolivia national team between 1984 and 1993, including participations in Copa América 1987, Copa América 1989 and Copa América 1991.

Honours

Club

Oriente Petrolero
- Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano: 1990
Cerro Porteño
- Primera División de Paraguay: 1992

External links

Marciano Saldías (in Spanish)
Huella. Un lateral letal (in Spanish)