Gerardo Ortiz

Gerardo Ortiz's career has been defined by movement between countries rather than by one defining club. He joined Quilmes, in Argentina, as a youth player in 2004 and spent the best part of a decade working through the academy and reserve sides there, a stretch broken only by a loan spell in Paraguay with Rubio Ñu in 2010, where he made his first senior appearances. It took until June of that year, back at Quilmes, for him to sign his first professional contract.

A return to Paraguay followed in 2012 with Olimpia, before Ortiz settled for five years at Sol de América from 2013, the longest single spell of his career to that point. In January 2019 he moved abroad again, this time to Colombia's Once Caldas, where he remained until his contract was terminated in October 2023. He went back to Sol de América in January 2024, then joined Nacional Asunción as a free agent in January 2025.

Ortiz has yet to make an appearance for Paraguay's senior team, though he has been included in squads for major tournaments, among them the 2021 Copa América. His only representative football at international level came with the under-20 side, for whom he played a single match in 2009.