Jairo Castillo

Castillo's professional career began with América de Cali in 1994. In 1995, Castillo was loaned to second-division club Atletico Bucaramanga, and scored 8 goals in 25 appearances, helping his club win the 1995 Categoría Primera B title. He returned to America for the 1996 season having gained more experience and won his first title as a professional, the 1996-97 league championship, and finished runner-up in the Copa Libertadores. In 1999, he won the Copa Merconorte. In the second leg of the Copa Merconorte finals against Santa Fe, Castillo scored the only goal of the game, and then scored his penalty in the shootout to help America lift the trophy. In 2000, he joined Vélez Sársfield of Argentina but returned to América de Cali after only one season where he won another Colombian league title in 2002. In 2003, he went back to Argentina to play for Independiente. In 2005, Castillo had his first spell in Europe in Spain's second division with Real Valladolid. In 2006, he signed for Millonarios. In 2007, he returned to Europe, this time going to Cyprus and signing for Limassol. Despite a short six-month spell in Cyprus, he managed to score 4 goals in 5 matches. In 2008, he joined Uruguayan club Defensor Sporting and scored six goals in 11 matches to help the club win the 2007–08 league title. Castillo returned to Argentina in the second half of 2008 to play for newly promoted Godoy Cruz. He scored twice on his league debut against Banfield and then on 28 September 2008 he…

Castillo played 23 times for the Colombia national team between 1999 and 2005, he was part of the squad that won their first and only Copa América title in 2001. Castillo also played for the Colombia under-23 team in the 2000 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, where he scored two goals against Ecuador and Venezuela, respectively.

America de Cali

Categoria Primera A: 1997, 2002 Copa Merconorte: 1999

Defensor Sporting

Uruguayan Primera Division: 2007–08