Please answer the following question: Carlos Fabian Maldonado (born July 30 1963 in Montevideo Uruguay) is a retired professional footballer from Venezuela who played as a midfielder during his career. He was nicknamed Carlitos.Maldonado played professional football in Venezuela Argentina Brazil and Colombia. He obtained a total number of 20 caps for the Venezuela national football team scoring four goals. All his goals came at the 1989 Copa America. 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