Q:Rolando Álvarez Suárez (born 1975-12-14) is a Venezuelan football defender who made a total number of 20 appearances for the Venezuela national team between 1999 and 2001. He started his professional career at Internacional Lara. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete