Jonathan Fabbro

Early career

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.

Boca Juniors

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…

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 2010, following his Paraguayan naturalisation, ABC Color announced that Fabbro was in the plans of Paraguay's national team coach Gerardo Martino. In August 2012, national team coached Gerardo Pelusso praised Fabbro for his wish of playing for Paraguay, debuting in the second half of a 3–3 friendly draw against Guatemala in Washington, D.C., and scoring from a free kick 8 minutes after entering the field. 10 minutes followed and Fabbro habilitated teammate Hernan Perez to score Paraguay's third goal of the game. On 7 September 2012, Fabbro made his second appearance for Paraguay in a 3–1 away defeat against Argentina in a World Cup qualification game, equalising the scores for 1–1 with a penalty in the 18th minute. On 6 September 2013, Fabbro scored in the 16th minute of a 4–0 home victory against Bolivia in a World Cup qualification match. In May 2015, Fabbro was pre-selected in a list of 30 footballers by national team coach Ramon Diaz for the 2015 Copa América. In September 2015, Fabbro showed happy to return to train with the national team after not selected for the 2015 Copa América. On 5 September 2015, Fabbro scored an equalising goal in the 51st minute to be 1–1 in a 3–2 away defeat against Chile in an exhibition game. On 17 November…

By 2010, Fabbro was a celebrity in Paraguay and obtained Paraguayan citizenship in the same year. From 2011 to 2019, he was in a relationship with Paraguayan model Larissa Riquelme. Fabbro and Riquelme formed an ideal relationship for the press, which had them in sports magazines.

Legal troubles and child sexual abuse

In 2010, Fabbro accidentally hit with his car and killed a 23-year-old woman, Mónica Beatriz Deppeller, who was taking her five-year-old son to school on her motorbike in Videla, Santa Fe, Argentina. Fabbro was eventually sued by the victim's family and had money docked from his wages to pay a compensation, but in 2012 he and his girlfriend Larissa Riquelme hit another motorcyclist during a car chase with Paraguayan police. In 2017, Fabbro was accused of sexually abusing his 11-year-old goddaughter (daughter of his brother Darío) and another underage girl. In May 2018, the footballer was extradited from Mexico to Argentina by order of Interpol, and imprisoned. In 2019, Fabbro was found guilty of at least five counts of "severely outrageous sexual abuse" against his niece and goddaughter between 2015 and 2017. Fabbro was officially sentenced to fourteen years in jail.