Estanislao Struway

Estanislao Struway Samaniego (born 25 June 1968) is a Paraguayan football coach and former midfielder from who was nicknamed Taní during his career. He is the current coach of División Intermedia team Sportivo Iteño.

Club At club level Struway spent most of his career in Paraguay where he won five league titles. He also played at professional level in Argentina, Peru and Brazil. His first club was Cerro Porteño where he made his debut in 1988, he won two Paraguayan league titles in his first spell with the club in 1990 and 1992.

Struway joined Argentine Racing Club de Avellaneda in 1995 but never settled, he joined 2nd division Los Andes the next season. In 1996, he played for Sporting Cristal in Peru.

Struway played in Brazil in the late 1990s, making appearances for Portuguesa and Coritiba. In the former, he protagonized an unusual episode during a Campeonato Brasileiro match: learning that he would be substituted, Struway angrily took off his shirt and threw it on the ground, resulting in him getting sent off instead. The club released him shortly afterwards.

In 1999, he returned to Cerro Porteño where he won another Paraguayan league title in 2001. In 2002, he moved to Libertad where he was part of two more league championship winning campaigns. He spent his last years playing for 12 de Octubre and then Sportivo Iteño before his retirement in 2005.

International Struway made his international debut for the Paraguay national football team on 27 February 1991 in a friendly match against Brazil (1-1). He obtained a total number of 74 international caps, scoring four goals for the national side. He played in the 2002 FIFA World Cup and in five editions of the Copa América: 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2001

Honours

Club Cerro Porteño Paraguayan Primera División: 1990, 1992, 2001 Sporting Cristal Peruvian Primera División: 1996 Coritiba Campeonato Paranaense: 1999 Libertad Paraguayan Primera División: 2002, 2003