Mario Yepes (born 13 January 1976) is a Colombian retired footballer. He played as a defender. He played for Deportivo Cali, Cortuluá, River Plate, F.C. Nantes, Paris Saint-Germain, ChievoVerona, A.C. Milan, Atalanta, San Lorenzo, and Colombia national team.
When Yepes started his playing career in 1994 with Cortuluá, he was playing as a strikerbefore Cortulua's coach converted him to a defender.
Club career statistics
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|1994||rowspan="3"|Cortuluá||rowspan="3"|Primera A||4||0
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|1995||15||0
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|1995/96||40||4
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|1996/97||rowspan="3"|Deportivo Cali||rowspan="3"|Primera A||0||0
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|1998||48||6
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|1999||13||1
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|1999/00||rowspan="3"|River Plate||rowspan="3"|Primera División||29||2
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|2000/01||33||2
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|2001/02||14||2
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|2001/02||rowspan="3"|Nantes Atlantique||Division 1||11||0
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|2002/03||rowspan="2"|Ligue 1||33||2
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|2003/04||29||0
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|2004/05||rowspan="4"|Paris Saint-Germain||rowspan="4"|Ligue 1||32||3
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|2005/06||32||4
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|2006/07||24||1
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|2007/08||27||0
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|2008/09||rowspan="2"|ChievoVerona||rowspan="2"|Serie A||32||0
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|2009/10||||
120||11
76||6
188||10
32||0
416||27
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International career statistics
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|1999||3||0
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|2000||9||0
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|2001||13||0
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|2002||0||0
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|2003||12||1
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|2004||7||1
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|2005||7||1
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|2006||0||0
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|2007||5||1
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|2008||3||0
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|2009||9||0
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|2010||6||0
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|2011||9||0
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|2012||5||0
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|2013||7||2
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|2014||7||1
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!Total||102||7
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Personal life
Yepes is married to a Colombian woman named Carolina Villegas. Yepes and his wife have three children. His son Luciano Yepes was born in May 2002, his second son Valentino Yepes was born in September 2012, and his daughter Miranda Yepes was born in April 2005.