Christian Marrugo
![]() Christian Marrugo in 2016 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Christian Camilo Marrugo Rodríguez | ||
Date of birth | (1985-07-18) July 18, 1985 (age 39) | ||
Place of birth | Cartagena, Colombia | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Real Cartagena | ||
Number | 17 | ||
Youth career | |||
Atlético Nacional | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2002–2006 | Atlético Nacional | 94 | (14) |
2006–2007 | Santa Fe | 51 | (13) |
2008–2012 | Deportes Tolima | 212 | (30) |
2013–2017 | Pachuca | 15 | (0) |
2013–2014 | → Veracruz (loan) | 17 | (5) |
2014 | → Deportivo Cali (loan) | 21 | (1) |
2014–2017 | → Independiente Medellín (loan) | 93 | (15) |
2017–2020 | Club Puebla | 54 | (5) |
2018–2019 | → Millonarios (loan) | 37 | (3) |
2020–2022 | Rionegro Águilas | 68 | (15) |
2022 | Independiente Medellín | 22 | (1) |
2023 | Santa Fe | 35 | (2) |
2024– | Real Cartagena | 23 | (6) |
International career | |||
2008–2012 | Colombia | 11 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:12, 27 August 2024 (UTC) |
Christian Camilo Marrugo Rodríguez (born 18 July 1985), is a professional footballer who plays for Real Cartagena. He plays the position of attacking midfielder.
Club career
Marrugo played for the Bolivar Department soccer and indoor soccer teams in all categories U10, U14, U16. When he was 15 years old, he traveled from Cartagena to Cali, where he stayed a couple of years before arriving to Medellín to join Atlético Nacional where he won the Colombian League in 2005. He was then transferred from Atlético Nacional to Independiente Santa Fe and also promoted to the Senior Colombia national football team.
He was later traded to Deportes Tolima for Anchico and on November 2012, to CF Pachuca.
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For the year 2014, Deportivo Cali acquired Marrugo to enforce the midfield for coming tournaments like Copa Libertadores and Liga Postobón. For the second semester of 2014, he was signed by Independiente Medellín on a six-months loan to reinforce the red and blue team. In 2016, he helped Independiente Medellín win their sixth league championship, scoring a brace in the final against Junior. Since then, he has been known as Marrugol. For The second season of Águila League 2016 he finished as the forward with more goals in DIM.
International career
He played with the Colombia national under-20 football team at the 2005 South American Youth Championship, which Colombia hosted and won. He then competed at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, helping Colombia to the Round of 16 before losing to eventual champion Argentina.
Personal life
Marrugo and his family have strong sports habits, his brother Camilo Marrugo has also played a couple of professional games in the Colombian league with Real Cartagena and Cúcuta Deportivo.
External links
- Christian Marrugo at National-Football-Teams.com
- Christian Marrugo – Liga MX stats at MedioTiempo.com (archived) (in Spanish)
- Christian Marrugo at ESPN FC
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