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Roberto Cabañas
Personal information
Full name	Roberto Cabañas González
Date of birth	11 April 1961
Place of birth	Pilar, Paraguay
Date of death	9 January 2017 (aged 55)
Place of death	Asunción, Paraguay
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1978–1980	Cerro Porteño
1980–1984	New York Cosmos
1984–1987	América de Cali
1988–1990	Brest
1990–1991	Lyon
1991–1993	Boca Juniors
1993–1994	Barcelona SC
1995	Boca Juniors
1996	Libertad
1996	Independiente Medellín
2000	Real Cartagena
International career
1979–1993	Paraguay
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roberto Cabañas González (11 April 1961 – 9 January 2017) was a Paraguayan footballer who played as a forward.^[1]

Career

During his career, Cabañas played for Cerro Porteño of Paraguay, Stade Brestois and Olympique Lyonnais of France, the New York Cosmos (winning the 1980 and 1982 NASL championship and top scorer and NASL MVP in 1983),^[2] América de Cali of Colombia (helping the team in reaching three consecutive Copa Libertadores finals)^[3]^[4] and Boca Juniors of Argentina (winning the 1992 Apertura tournament and the 1992 Copa Master de Supercopa).^[5]

After representing Paraguay at the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship, Cabañas became a key player of the Paraguay national team during the 1980s. Cabañas was not only pivotal in Paraguay's qualification for the Mexico 1986 World Cup, but he also scored the two goals against Belgium in the pivotal third group match, thus tying the game at 2-2. This allowed Paraguay to qualify second in their group, behind Mexico.^[6]

After retiring, Cabañas settled in Cali, Colombia, where he married and had two children.

Cabañas died of a heart attack in Asunción in January 2017, Paraguay. He was 55.^[7]