) is a professional footballer who, playing intermittently for Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town F.C.

Ipswich Town Football Club are an English professional football team based in Ipswich, Suffolk. As of 2011, they play in the Football League Championship, having last appeared in the Premier League in 2001–02....

 during the 1994–95 season

1994-95 in English football

-Premiership:Blackburn Rovers ended their 81-year wait for the league title thanks to the strike partnership of Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton which scored a total of more than 50 league goals. Manchester United would have made it three league titles in a row if they had been able to turn a 1-1 draw...

 the transfer was done by his FIFA agent Marcelo Houseman together with another player Mauricio Taricco

Mauricio Taricco

Mauricio Ricardo Taricco is an Argentinian professional footballer and football coach who is currently assistant manager to Gus Poyet at Football League Championship team Brighton & Hove Albion. Taricco notably played Premier League football for Tottenham Hotspur, having also appeared for...

. He became the first Uruguayan to play in the English Premier League.
In January 1996, Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...

 began allocating

1996 MLS Inaugural Allocations

The Major League Soccer Inaugural Allocations were signed by the league in 1996 and distributed to the ten initial teams prior to the beginning of the first MLS season...

 players to its newly established teams. Paz was sent to the Columbus Crew

Columbus Crew

The Columbus Crew is an American professional soccer club based in Columbus, Ohio which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada...

 where he played 27 games. On February 1, 1997, the Crew sent Paz to the Colorado Rapids

Colorado Rapids

The Colorado Rapids are an American professional soccer club based in the Denver suburb of Commerce City, Colorado which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, having competed in the league...

 in exchange for the first-round selection in the 1997 MLS Supplemental Draft

1997 MLS Supplemental Draft

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. he spent two seasons in Colorado before moving to Tianjin Teda in 1999. During the time in Tianjin, he suffered serious injury at the first game against Shanghai Shenhua

Shanghai Shenhua

Shanghai Shenhua is a professional Chinese football club currently playing in Chinese Super League. The club is currently owned by Zhu Jun , Shanghai SVA Group, SMEG and Huangpu Investment Ltd. . The current head coach is Dražen Besek...

, after Shanghai's defender Xin Feng

Xin Feng

Xin Feng is a Chinese football player who currently plays as a defender for Shanghai Shenhua in the Chinese Super League.-Club career:...

 made tackle on both of his legs. He had been rest until the end of 1999. He joined Bella Vista again in 2000, then went back to China for the third time, joined Qingdao Etsong. He retired from football after then.

International career

He made his debut for Uruguay

Uruguay national football team

The Uruguayan national football team represents Uruguay in international association football and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uruguay. The current head coach is Óscar Tabárez...

 in a friendly match against Brazil

Brazil national football team

The Brazil national football team represents Brazil in international men's football and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation , the governing body for football in Brazil. They are a member of the International Federation of Association Football since 1923 and also a member of the...

 (1-0 win) on April 30, 1992 in the Estadio Centenario

Estadio Centenario

Estadio Centenario is a stadium in Parque Batlle, Montevideo, Uruguay, used primarily for football. The stadium was built between 1929 and 1930 to host the 1930 FIFA World Cup, as well as to commemorate the centennial of Uruguay's first constitution...

 in Montevideo

Montevideo

Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...

 under coach Luis Alberto Cubilla.

External links

• Player statistics at National Football Teams