Club career San Lorenzo Morel Rodríguez started his career in Argentina with
San Lorenzo in the
Primera División. In the
2000–01 season he won the
Clausura with San Lorenzo, and in 2001 he helped them win the
Copa Mercosur, beating Brazilian club
Flamengo in the final. He scored his first goal for the club on 5 October 2002 in a 2–1 win over
Newell's Old Boys at the
Estadio Pedro Bidegain. He won the
2002 Copa Sudamericana with the club, beating
Atlético Nacional of Colombia 4–0 in the final in November 2002. He scored one more goal for San Lorenzo also in the
2002–03 season, and also against Newell's Old Boys, in a 2–1 defeat on 2 May 2003 at the
Estadio Newell's Old Boys.
Boca Juniors He moved to Boca Juniors in 2004 and made his Boca debut in a 0–0 draw against
Lanús on 15 August 2004. His first trophy with Boca came in 2004 when the club won the
Copa Sudamericana, by beating Bolivian club
Bolivar 2–1 over two legs in the final. In 2005, he won the
Recopa Sudamericana and the
Copa Sudamericana as well as winning both the
2005 Apertura and the
2006 Clausura in the
2005–2006 season. He won the
Recopa Sudamericana 2006 with Boca, beating
São Paulo 4–3 on aggregate. On 10 February 2007, Morel scored his first goal with Boca Juniors in a 4–0 victory over
Banfield, later that year in December he played in the
2007 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan and helped Boca to the runners-up spot, losing to Italian club
A.C. Milan 4–2 in the
final. He was runner-up behind fellow Paraguayan
Salvador Cabañas in the 2007
South American Footballer of the Year award. He was also selected in the "Ideal Eleven of South America in 2007". In August 2008 he helped Boca win the
2008 Recopa Sudamericana, beating fellow Argentine club
Arsenal 5–3 on aggregate. In December 2008 he was chosen as the
Paraguayan footballer of the year by the press. On 20 June 2010, prior to
Paraguay's group match against
Slovakia at the
2010 FIFA World Cup, Boca Juniors announced they would not renew Morel Rodríguez' contract.
Return to Paraguay In 2015, he and Sol de América colleague
Aureliano Torres both joined 12 de Octubre of the División Intermedia.
International career He made his international debut in 1999. Morel Rodríguez also represented Paraguay U23 at the
2000 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament, making three appearances. He played in the
2002 World Cup qualifiers, and has played in the
qualifying games for the
2010 World Cup. ==Later and coaching career==