Víctor Hugo Ávalos Acosta was a Paraguayan football player, most remembered for his spells at Quilmes, Independiente Medellín and Chilean football.
Career
Mainly a central midfielder who could also operate as an attacking playmaker, he died in 2009 from a heart attack during an amateur football game. The next season Ávalos joined Independiente Medellín of Colombia, playing 36 matches and scoring three goals. In 1997 Ávalos joined Club Guaraní, eventually being club captain.
Ávalos was capped once by the Paraguayan national side, on 14 February 1996 against Bolivia.
Additionally, Ávalos played four times for the U-20s in 1991, competing in the South American Youth Championship in Venezuela.
Achievements
Born in the capital Asunción, Ávalos joined hometown"s Club Cerro Corá, growing up at the club"s football academy and making his Primera División debut in 1990, aged 19. His style of play caught the attention of Argentine Primera División side Quilmes Atlético Club, and he went on to play all the games of the 1991-1992 season for the Buenos Aires-based outfit. Afterwards he returned to his country, signing for powerhouse Club Olimpia and helping the team win the Primera División title in 1995.
In January 2004, aged 32, he arrived at Deportes Temuco of the Chilean Primera División, going on to remain the vast majority of his remaining career in the country, representing in quick succession Communicative Disorders Universidad de Concepción, Deportes Puerto Montt, C.D.P. Curicó Unido and Santiago Wanderers of Valparaíso (playing seventeen 2007 Apertura games for the latter club).
The following year he returned to his homeland to play for Club Silvio Pettirossi, having previously appeared for C.D.F.A. Arturo Fernández Vial in the Primera B.
He replaced Club Atlético Independiente"s Roberto Acuña in the 52nd minute of a 1–4 away friendly loss prior to the 1998 Fédération internationale de football association World Cup qualifiers.
