The former Colombian soccer player Jorge Bolañowho participated in the World Cup in France 1998he died this Sunday at 47 years of age in the city of Cúcuta, local media confirmed.
BolañoJunior de Barranquilla idol and remembered in Italy for the seasons he played in the Parmahe died of a heart attack during a party he attended in Cúcutacapital of the department of Norte de Santander and city that has the main border crossing of Colombia with Venezuela, according to the Bogota newspaper El Tiempo.
“With deep pain we express our most sincere condolences to the family and loved ones from Jorge Eladio Bolaño Beltformer player of the Male Colombia National Team, professional footballer and coach, who died this Sunday, “the Colombian Football Federation (FCF) lamented in a statement.
That organism added that “the departure of Jorge Bolaño He leaves a vacuum in the heart of those who knew and admired him “and said that” his legacy as a footballer and trainer will last in the memory of Colombian sport. “
During his career, Bolaño, born on April 28, 1977 in the Caribbean city of Santa Martahe worked as a midfielder and is remembered for his time for the Junior, a club in which he played between 1993 and 1999.
In the Barranquilla team, the former soccer player, who was the son of the late former player Oscar Bolañoplayed 161 games in which he scored 10 ten goals and won the titles of the Colombian League in 1993 and 1995, the golden age of that club.
His good performed at Junior opened the doors of the Colombian team, with which he debuted in a friendly in 1995 and participated in the 1998 World Cup in France.
He also played the 1999 Copa América, in which he scored a goal to Chili In the quarterfinals, and participated in the South American Qualifiers to the World Cups of 1998, 2002 and 2006.
In 1999, Bolaño He was signed by the Parma, a team with which he won in 2002 the Italian Cup.
It also went through the Italian clubs Sampdoria, Lecce and Modena, where it finished its European journey in 2009.
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In 2010 he returned to Colombia To play at Cúcuta Deportivo, a club in which he retired in 2012 to continue linked to the world of football.
Bolaño He served as a technical assistant of Willy Rodríguez in the former Uniautónoma of Colombia in 2014 and Juan Carlos Ramírez in the U-17 team of his country between 2022 and 2024.
He was also coach of Royal borderof the Second Venezuelan Division, in 2017 and worked as a sports commentator in local television channels.
