Fulgencio Berdugo was a Colombian

Colombian people

Colombian people are from a multiethnic Spanish speaking nation in South America called Colombia. Colombians are predominantly Roman Catholic and are a mixture of Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians.-Demography:...

 soccer player. He was born in Barranquilla

Barranquilla

Barranquilla is an industrial port city and municipality located in northern Colombia, near the Caribbean Sea. The capital of the Atlántico Department, it is the largest industrial city and port in the Colombian Caribbean region with a population of 1,148,506 as of 2005, which makes it Colombia's...

, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 on June 14, 1918 and died in the same city on February 3, 2003. He played for different national and international soccer teams, including the Colombian national team in the Copa América

Copa América

The Copa América —previously known as South American Championship—is an international football competition contested between the men's national teams of CONMEBOL, the sport's continental governing body...

 of 1945, scoring goals against Bolivia

Bolivia

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 and Ecuador

Ecuador

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. He played professionally for Junior de Barranquilla with great Brazil

Brazil

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ian players, including Heleno de Freitas

Heleno de Freitas

Heleno de Freitas was a Brazilian footballer.The striker spent most of his career with Botafogo, scoring 209 goals for the club, most with his head. In 1948 he transferred to Boca Juniors in Argentina, but returned to Brazil the following year, winning the 1949 Campeonato Carioca with Vasco...

. Berdugo also played on the island of Cuba

Cuba

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and helped develop its professional soccer league.