Rolan de la Cruz

Rolan de la Cruz
Personal information
Full name	Rolan de la Cruz Biojó
Date of birth	3 October 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth	Tumaco, Colombia
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
2005–2008	Deportivo Cali
2007	→ Deportivo Pasto (loan)
2007	→ Independiente Santa Fe (loan)
2008	→ Cortuluá (loan)
2010	Árabe Unido
2011–2012	Fortaleza
2013	The Panthers
International career‡
2011–2012	Equatorial Guinea
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 January 2015; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 January 2015

Rolan de la Cruz Biojó (born 3 October 1984) is a former footballer who played a midfielder. Born in Colombia, he capped for the Equatorial Guinea national team.^[1]

Career

Born in Tumaco, Colombia, De la Cruz had played club football in Colombia and Panama for Deportivo Cali, Deportivo Pasto, Santa Fe, Cortuluá, Árabe Unido and Fortaleza.^[2] In early 2013, De la Cruz was on trial in Colombian giant América de Cali (now in second division), but failed to sign.^[3]

He made his international debut for Equatorial Guinea in 2011.^[2]

Personal life

De la Cruz descends from Benkos Bioho,^[4] but this rebel slave was a native of the former Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau.^[5]

On 6 October 2023, De la Cruz was captured by the Joint Stabilization and Consolidation Task Force Hercules, together with the Specialized Anti-Drug Trafficking Directorate of the Prosecutor's Office and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration Agency (DEA), accused of being an important drug trafficker in his native Tumaco.^[6]