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Speed defined Amaranto Perea more than size, which made him an unusual centre-back for top-level Spanish football. At Atlético Madrid he used recovery pace, aggressive covering and one-v-one defending to compensate for a relatively modest frame, becoming one of the club’s most important foreign players of the 2000s. For Colombia, the same traits made him valuable in open-field defending: fast, brave, reactive and built for emergency management.
