Roberto Miguel Acuña - International Matches


The outstanding Paraguayan player obtained 97 international caps with his National Team, and formerly held the record number of appearances for Paraguay. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Born:	25- 3-1972
Country:  Argentina (later became Paraguayan citizen)
Caps:	97	(W40-D27-L30 - GF116-GA103 - %55.15)
Goals:	  5
Age First Cap:	 21 yr  77 d	10- 6-1993 vs. Mexico 1-3
Age Last Cap:	 34 yr 196 d	20- 6-2006 vs. Australia 1-1
National Team Career: 13 yr 119 d


Cap	Date       	Venue       	Opponent       Score	Competition
 1	10- 6-93	Cdad. de México	Mexico  	1-3	
 2	26- 6-93	Quito      	Ecuador 	0-3	Copa América
 3	14- 7-93	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil  	0-2	
 4	 1- 8-93	Barranquilla	Colombia	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 5	 8- 8-93	Asunción	Argentina	1-3	World Cup Qualifier
 6	15- 8-93	Asunción	Peru    	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 7	22- 8-93	Asunción	Colombia	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 8	29- 8-93	Buenos Aires	Argentina	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 9	 5- 9-93	Lima      	Peru    	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
10	 9- 6-95	Asunción	Bolivia  	0-0 [1] Copa Paz del Chaco
11	14- 6-95	Rosario 	Argentina	1-2	
12	22- 6-95	Santiago	New Zealand	3-2	Copa Centenario
13	30- 6-95	Asunción	Ecuador 	1-0
14	 6- 7-95	Maldonado	Mexico   	2-1	Copa América
15	 9- 7-95	Montevideo	Uruguay 	0-1	Copa América
16	12- 7-95	Maldonado	Venezuela	3-2	Copa América
17	16- 7-95	Montevideo	Colombia  	1-1 [2]	Copa América
18	14- 2-96	Sucre   	Bolivia 	1-4	
19	21- 4-96	Asunción	Bosnia-Herz.	3-0	
20	24- 4-96	Barranquilla	Colombia	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
21	21- 6-96	Montevideo	Uruguay 	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
22	26- 7-96	Asunción	Bolivia 	2-0	
23	 1- 9-96	Buenos Aires	Argentina	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
24	 9-10-96	Asunción	Chile   	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
25	10-11-96	Asunción	Ecuador 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
26	15-12-96	La Paz  	Bolivia 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
27       6- 1-97        Asunción        Armenia         2-0
28	12- 1-97	Caracas 	Venezuela	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
29	12- 2-97	Asunción	Peru    	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
30	 2- 4-97	Asunción	Colombia	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
31	30- 4-97	Asunción	Uruguay 	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
32	 4- 6-97	St. Louis	United States	0-0	
33	11- 6-97	Cochabamba	Chile    	1-0	Copa América
34	14- 6-97	Cochabamba	Ecuador 	0-2	Copa América
35	17- 6-97	Cochabamba	Argentina	1-1	Copa América
36	22- 6-97	Santa Cruz	Brazil   	0-2	Copa América
37	 6- 7-97	Asunción	Argentina	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
38	20- 7-97	Santiago	Chile   	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
39	20- 8-97	Quito   	Ecuador 	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
40	10- 9-97	Asunción	Bolivia 	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
41	12-10-97	Asunción	Venezuela	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
42	14- 3-98	San Diego	United States	2-2	
43	18- 3-98	Cdad. de México	Mexico  	1-1	
44	29- 3-98	New York	Colombia	1-1	
45	22- 4-98	Parma   	Italy   	1-3	
46	17- 5-98	Tokyo   	Japan   	1-1	Kirin Cup
47	21- 5-98	Kobe     	Czech Republic	0-1	Kirin Cup
48	 3- 6-98	Bucuresti	Romania 	2-3	
49	 6- 6-98	Brussel 	Belgium 	0-1	
50	12- 6-98	Montpellier	Bulgaria	0-0	World Cup
51	19- 6-98	Saint Etienne	Spain   	0-0	World Cup
52	24- 6-98	Toulouse	Nigeria 	3-1	World Cup
53	28- 6-98	Lens    	France  	0-1	World Cup
54	17- 6-99	Ciudad del Este	Uruguay 	2-3	
55	24- 6-99	Asunción	Colombia	2-1	
56	29- 6-99	Asunción	Bolivia 	0-0	Copa América
57	 2- 7-99	Asunción	Japan   	4-0	Copa América
58	 5- 7-99	P.J. Caballero	Peru    	1-0	Copa América
59	10- 7-99	Asunción	Uruguay 	1-1	Copa América
60	 3-11-99	Buenos Aires	Bolivia 	0-0	
61	17-11-99	Maldonado	Uruguay 	1-0	
62	29- 3-00	Lima    	Peru    	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
63	26- 4-00	Asunción	Uruguay 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
64	 3- 6-00	Asunción	Ecuador 	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
65	21- 6-00	Ciudad del Este	Costa Rica	1-0	
66	29- 6-00	Santiago	Chile   	1-3	World Cup Qualifier
67	18- 7-00	Asunción	Brazil  	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
68	27- 7-00	La Paz  	Bolivia 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
69	16- 8-00	Buenos Aires	Argentina	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
70	 2- 9-00	Asunción	Venezuela	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
71	 7-10-00	Bogotá  	Colombia	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
72	15-11-00	Asunción	Peru    	5-1	World Cup Qualifier
73	28- 3-01	Montevideo	Uruguay 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
74	 2- 6-01	Asunción	Chile   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
75	15- 8-01	Porto Alegre	Brazil  	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
76	 8-11-01	San Cristóbal	Venezuela	1-3	World Cup Qualifier
77	14-11-01	Asunción	Colombia	0-4	World Cup Qualifier
78	17- 5-02	Stockholm	Sweden  	2-1	
79	 2- 6-02	Busan   	South Africa	2-2	World Cup
80	 7- 6-02	Jeonju  	Spain   	1-3	World Cup
81	12- 6-02	Seogwipo	Slovenia	3-1	World Cup
82	15- 6-02	Seogwipo	Germany 	0-1	World Cup
83      21- 8-02        Fortaleza       Brazil          1-0
84      16-10-02        Logroño         Spain           0-0
85       3- 9-05        Asunción        Argentina       1-0     World Cup Qualifier
86       8-10-05        Maracaibo       Venezuela       1-0     World Cup Qualifier
87      12-10-05        Asunción        Colombia        0-1     World Cup Qualifier
88      11-11-05        Tehran          Togo            4-2     LG Cup
89       1- 3-06        Cardiff         Wales           0-0
90      29- 3-06        Chicago         Mexico          1-2
91      24- 5-06        Oslo            Norway          2-2
92      27- 5-06        Aarhus          Denmark         1-1
93      31- 5-06        Salzburg        Georgia         1-0
94      10- 6-06        Frankfurt       England         0-1     World Cup
95      15- 6-06        Berlin          Sweden          0-1     World Cup
96      20- 6-06        Kaiserslautern  Trinidad/Tobago 2-0     World Cup
97       7-10-06        Brisbane        Australia       1-1

[1] Paraguay win 4-3 on penalty kicks.
[2] Paraguay lost 5-4 on penalty kicks.

Note: Match against Macedonia 'B' played at Tehran (13/11/05, 1-0) in 
      which Acuña played was not full A-international and therefore not 
      included here.



Total Record

Matches	Won	Draw	Lost	For-Against	Points	Percentage

97	40	27	30	116- 103 	107	55.15


Types of Matches

Friendlies      	29
World Cup Qualifier	39
World Cup          	11
Copa América       	13
Other Tournaments	 5

Total caps:        	97

Goals:
Cap 13	1 goal
Cap 33	1 goal
Cap 37	1 goal
Cap 48	1 goal
Cap 69	1 goal

Total: 	5 goals


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Prepared and maintained by Roberto Mamrud for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Roberto Mamrud (robert@elsitio.net)
Last updated: 3 Nov 2006

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