Juan Pablo Ángel

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Juan Pablo Angel
Date of birth	October 24, 1975 (age 31)
Place of birth	Medellín, Colombia
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Aston Villa
Number	9
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993-97 1997-00 2000-	Atlético Nacional de Medellín River Plate Aston Villa	057 0(9) 0111 (55) 175 (44)
National team²
1996-	Colombia	033 0(9)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC). ² National team caps and goals correct as of 28 August 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Juan Pablo Ángel (born October 24, 1975 in Medellín) is a Colombian football striker, who is currently playing for Aston Villa.

Ángel started playing professional soccer at Atlético Nacional in his home city of Medellín, Colombia. Ángel was sold to River Plate, Argentina, where he was considered one of the best players.^{[citation needed]} When Ángel played in River spectators would put on angel wings to represent Angel.^{[citation needed]}

Ángel is Aston Villa's record signing from Argentinian side River Plate at £9.5 million, an increase of £2.5 million on the previous record, set by Stan Collymore. He is reportedly Villa's highest earner on £40,000 per week.^{[citation needed]} After an indifferent start to his Aston Villa career, he settled down and started to produce the form that persuaded Doug Ellis to shell out the massive transfer fee. He was the club's top scorer in the 2003-04 season with 16 goals in the FA Premier League, but slipped to 7 goals in 2004-05.

Since the departure of Darius Vassell to Manchester City the summer of 2005, Angel has been heaped with pressure to score more goals. In August 2005, Milan Baroš was brought in however, in an attempt to take off some of the burden. However, Baroš seemed to find scoring as difficult as Ángel, and was sold to Olympique Lyonnais in the January 2007 transfer window. Despite early promise, Angel later fell out-of-favour with manager David O'Leary, and spent most of the season either as a substitute or watching from the stands.^{[citation needed]}

For Colombia, Ángel has appeared over 30 times, averaging a ratio of nearly a goal every 3 games. For Villa he averages a goal every 3rd game.

Martin O'Neill's appointment as Villa manager has resulted in a huge turnaround in Angel's Villa career. He is now first choice striker again and is rewarding his manager with goals.

Angel shares a birthday with Matthew Amoah, Ghanian footballer and Wayne Rooney, English footballer.

Not exactly a penalty specialist, he missed his 5th out of 6 against Tottenham Hotspur on 14 October 2006, and his misery was complete with an own goal just a minute later. He would go on to rebound from this however, forming what appears^[clarify] to be a decent strike partnership with veteran striker Chris Sutton - Good work from Sutton and a mistake from Blackburn defender Kisanishvili led to Angel scoring his first Villa park goal since his strike against Newcastle on the 27th of August. It was also his sixth for the season.

On the 11th of December 2006, Aston Villa drew with Sheffield United 2-2, Juan Pablo Angel was at the centre of the controversy when he elbowed Chris Morgan in the face and did not receive any form of punishment. On the 12th of December 2006, it was decided that the situation would not be taken any further and Angel would face no punishment.

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Juan Pablo Ángel career stats at Soccerbase

Aston Villa F.C. - Current Squad
1 Sørensen \| 2 Delaney \| 3 Samuel \| 4 Mellberg \| 5 Laursen \| 6 Barry \| 8 McCann \| 9 Ángel \| 10 Carew \| 11 Petrov \| 12 Davis \| 13 Taylor \| 15 Agbonlahor \| 16 Bouma \| 17 Young \| 18 Hughes \| 19 Ridgewell \| 20 Sutton \| 21 Cahill \| 22 Moore \| 23 Berger \| 24 Bardsley \| 25 Olejnik \| 26 Gardner \| 27 Osbourne \| 28 Maloney \| 29 O'Halloran \| Manager: O'Neill

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