Jonathan Fabbro

Jonathan Fabbro (born 16 January 1982) is an Argentine-born Paraguayan convicted felon and a former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

In 2002, Fabbro returned from Spain's RCD Mallorca to join Boca Juniors Reserves and Academy.

On 5 May 2002, Fabbro debuted for the first-team of Boca Juniors in a 2–1 home victory against Velez Sarsfield, where he was coached by Óscar Tabárez.

Fabbro then went on to play for the club's first-team in a match against Independiente.

In 2003, Fabbro returned to play for the Boca Juniors first-team in four more matches, where he would score one goal against Rosario Central in a match which Boca Juniors lost 7-2 having fielded the majority of the first-team with youth-team players.

Fabbro would also participate in three continental matches, scoring one goal against Colón de Santa Fé in the 2003 Copa Sudamericana.

Fabbro was eclipsed by players such as Juan Roman Riquelme, Walter Gaitán and the Brazilian Iarley.

He did not play much in the first-team, but was a starting player in the reserve-team.

With the arrival of Carlos Bianchi as coach at Boca Juniors, Fabbro lost gametime with the first-team.

At Boca Juniors, Fabbro scored 2 goals in 9 games.

At Boca Juniors, Fabbro's other teammates included Roberto Abbondanzieri, Rolando Schiavi, Sebastian Battaglia, Carlos Tevez, Abel Balbo, Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Hungarian Róbert Waltner and Japanese Naohiro Takahara.

In 2003, Fabbro joined Colombian club Once Caldas, where he won the 2004 Copa Libertadores.

In December 2004, Fabbro played against Porto in the Intercontinental Cup, finishing runners-up after losing in a penalty shoot-out (Fabbro missed the decisive penalty).

In 2007, Fabbro arrived at Guaraní, where he became a club icon.

He was chosen as the Best Player in the 2008 Apertura.

Fabbro led the team to winning the 2010 Apertura.

Fabbro became a celebrity in Paraguay, and in 2010, he finished the procedure to acquire citizenship to play for the national team.

In 2010, Fabbro obtained Paraguayan citizenship in order to play for the Paraguay national team.

In March 2010, Fabbro completed the legal process of the Paraguayan naturalisation and awaited to be selected for the national team.

In January 2011, Fabbro's representative claimed that he could continue at Guaraní but with a better contract.

By this point, Fabbro was in the interest of Cerro Porteño and Olimpia Asunción.

Fabbro's representative indicated that Fabbro felt good at Guaraní but wanted to earn more.

In February 2011, Fabbro paid a buy out clause of US$228,000 to Guaraní to be able to transfer to Cerro Porteño.

Fabbro agreed to give away 12% of the transfer cost to Guaraní from his transfer.

Fabbro also gave Guaraní US $150,000, which was what Guaraní owed Fabbro for the sale of his economic rights.

For all of this, Fabbro renounced so that he could be free and play at Cerro Porteño, even removing a labour lawsuit that he filed against Guaraní.

Fabbro signed an agreement with Cerro Porteño for four years.

He later confessed that Guaraní's president never wanted to sell him.

During the 2011 Copa Libertadores group stage, Fabbro scored an equalizer in an away game against Chilean team Colo-Colo to 2–2, after losing 2–0.

In the last minutes, he scored with a free kick from almost 30 metres to win the game to 3–2 and to qualify to the round of 16 stage.

In 2013, Fabbro joined River Plate on a one-year loan by a special request from its coach Ramon Diaz.

Later, Fabbro spoke on 90 Minutos on Fox Sports Argentina, telling that his stint at River Plate damaged him by losing ground at Cerro Porteño and his place in the national team during the FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

"I would have liked to have more minutes, been able to play more often, to see if I was at the level which River Plate represents. Equally, I am content and happy for having passed through such a big club."

– Fabbro speaking about his stint at River Plate.

In 2019, he was sentenced to fourteen years in jail for abuse of children.

Born in Argentina, he became a naturalised citizen of Paraguay and played for its national football team.

He is the brother of former footballer Darío Fabbro.

Fabbro commenced his football career at Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors and remained there for 9 years, going through all of the youth divisions at the club.

When he hoped to make the step to the first-team at the age of 17, Fabbro had the opportunity to trial with Spanish club Real Betis, where Carlos Griguol was the coach.

Fabbro awakened the interest of Mallorca who did not doubt in signing him, there he played 5 games before returning to Argentina.