Former QPR forward Angelo Balanta has signed a one-year deal at Boreham Wood following his release by Carlisle.

Balanta had been training with the club over the summer after being released from Brunton Park in June, and impressed manager Luke Garrard enough to earn a permanent deal.

QPR became his first English club when he joined from his native Colombia in 2007, and made his debut a month later.

He was released at the end of the 2013-14 season, and spent the next two years with Bristol Rovers and in Cumbria.

Garrard told the club website: “Angelo is a good age at 26 and has experienced both success and failure as a professional footballer.

"I’m certainly not taking him to make up the numbers and I’m not taking him to play down the sides either.

"I’m taking him to play up top, he’ll be competing with two other forwards and he’ll be judged on his work rate, attitude and of course his goals."