He put on the America shirt and erased Lionel Messi, now he's a plumber

América as a whole has been able to recruit several players of international stature and a few others who have arrived who have not given the stature as expected. In the 2006-07 season, several players arrived at América, including one who had the luxury of annul Lionel Messi when he played for Barcelona.

It was in the summer of 2006 when América played a friendly match with Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi's Barcelona where the Azulcrema team knew how to take advantage of the match from the first half and defeated the Spanish team 4-1 and three goals from Paraguayan Nelson Cuevas.

Better known as El Pinino, the Paraguayan striker stood out in that match with three great goals, however, his season was not good in America in terms of the Liga MX, which is why he ended up leaving the cream-blue team, currently retired from soccer, is dedicated to plumbing and finishing Wells to extract water from the ground.

What is the life of Nelson Cuevas?

After his departure from America, the Paraguayan player Nelson Cuevas returned to his country where he even had health complications due to a stationary disease called dengue that almost cost him his life, however, he recovered and decided to set up a company that is in charge of drilling soil to find water.