Aldo Maiz

Aldo Maiz
Personal information
Full name Aldo Agustín Maiz Gill
Date of birth (2000-08-27) 27 August 2000
Place of birth San Lorenzo, Paraguay
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Guaraní
(on loan from Defensa y Justicia)
Number 8
Youth career
General Díaz
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2019 General Díaz 40 (1)
2019– Defensa y Justicia 0 (0)
2020–2021 → Cerro Porteño (loan) 7 (0)
2022–2024 → Sportivo Ameliano (loan) 80 (2)
2025– → Guaraní (loan) 18 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 1 June 2025

Aldo Agustín Maiz Gill (born 27 August 2000) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Guaraní on loan from Argentine club Defensa y Justicia.[2]

Career

Maiz started off his career in his homeland with General Díaz.[2][3] He made his professional bow, at the age of seventeen, in a Primera División fixture with Olimpia on 12 February 2018, though was substituted off after thirty-four minutes for Arturo Aranda.[2] Four days later, Maiz started another match against Independiente but was again subbed off early in the first half.[2] In the succeeding November, Maiz scored his first senior goal in a victory away from home to Guaraní.[2] Across the 2018 campaign, Maiz was selected to start nineteen times; appearing for the full duration just once.[2][4] He featured in twenty-one matches in the first part of 2019.[2][5][6]

On 27 July 2019, Argentine Primera División side Defensa y Justicia announced the signing of Maiz.[7][8] On 5 November 2020, Maiz was loaned out to Cerro Porteño until July 2021.[9] In February 2022, he moved on loan to Sportivo Ameliano until the end of the year.

Career statistics

As of 27 July 2019.[2]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
General Díaz 2018 Paraguayan Primera División 19100—0000191
2019 21000——00210
Total 40100—0000401
Defensa y Justicia 2019–20 Argentine Primera División 000000000000
Career total 40100000000401

References

  1. ↑ Aldo Maiz at WorldFootball.net
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aldo Maiz at Soccerway
  3. ↑ "Ficha Estadistica de ALDO MAIZ". BDFA. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  4. ↑ "Sufre duro golpe, pero se repone y ya no corre riesgo". HOY. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "Aldo Maíz, "militar" suspendido". Diario ABC Color. 12 March 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "El juvenil Maíz, al fútbol argentino". Diario ABC Color. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "Defensa y Justicia se hace con Aldo Maiz". BeSoccer. 27 July 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Defensa y Justicia oficializó a otro paraguayo". Versus. 27 July 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  9. ↑ Versus (5 November 2020). "Cerro da la bienvenida a su último refuerzo para el clausura" (in European Spanish). Diario La Nación (Paraguay). Retrieved 14 April 2021.