Miguel Alfredo Portillo (born September 26, 1982, Gobernador Virasoro

Gobernador Virasoro

Gobernador Virasoro is a city in the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It has about 29,000 inhabitants as of the ....

), nicknamed Pipo, is a football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 defender

Defender (football)

Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....

 from Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 who currently plays for Beitar Jerusalem.

Career

Portillo started his career at Argentine giants Boca Juniors

Boca Juniors

Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....

 in 2001, he never played a league game for the club but took part in 2 Copa Mercosur

Copa Mercosur

The Copa Mercosur was a football competition played from 1998 to 2001 by the traditional top clubs from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile. The competition was created by CONMEBOL to generate TV money to the participating teams, but it went beyond and ended up as a natural replacement...

 games in 2001. He has had spells at several Swiss clubs and the French

France

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 team Angers SCO

Angers SCO

Angers Sporting Club de l'Ouest is a French association football club based in Angers. The club was founded in 1919 and currently play in Ligue 2, the second division of French football having achieved promotion to the league in 2007. Angers play its home matches at the Stade Jean Bouin located...

, on 5 September 2009 AC Lugano

AC Lugano

FC Lugano is a Swiss football club based in Lugano. The club was founded as AC Lugano in 2004 as a result of relegation and financial situation of FC Lugano, which was founded in 1908. In 2008, the club reverted to its original name, FC Lugano. They play at the Stadio Cornaredo...

 have signed Young Boys' Argentinian defender on loan until the end of the season. After the season ended, Portillo joined FC Chornomorets Odesa in July 2010.

External links

• Profile & Statistics at Guardian's Stats Centre
• BSC Young Boys profile
• football.ch profile