Albeiro Usuriaga

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Albeiro Usuriaga
Personnel
Surname Albeiro Usuriaga López
birthday June 13, 1966
place of birth Cali ,  Colombia
date of death February 11, 2004
Place of death Cali ,  Colombia
size 178 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986 America de Cali 7 (?)
1987 Deportes Tolima 13 (?)
1988 Cúcuta Deportivo 25 (4)
1989 Atlético Nacional
1990 Málaga CF 15 (4)
1991-1993 America de Cali
1994-1995 CA Independiente 38 (at least 9)
1995 Necaxa 6 (0)
1996 Barcelona SC
1996 FC Santos 1 (0)
1997 CA Independiente 15 (4)
1998 Los Millonarios
1999 Atlético Bucaramanga
1999/2000 General Paz Juniors Cordoba
2000/01 All boys
2001 Deportivo Pasto
2002 Sportivo Luqueño
2002/03 Carabobo FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989-1991 Colombia 15 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Albeiro Usuriaga López (born June 13, 1966 in Cali ; † February 11, 2004 ibid) was a Colombian football player. Active in a variety of clubs, he won the Copa Libertadores with Atlético Nacional in 1989 and was Argentine champion with Independiente Avellaneda . For the national team of his home country, he made fifteen international matches and scored one goal.

Career

Club career

Albeiro Usuriaga began his football career in 1986 in his hometown near América de Cali . At that time, America was something like the figurehead of Colombian football and was in the final of the Copa Libertadores , the most important football competition for club teams in South America, three times in a row from 1985 to 1987 , but lost each time. Usuriaga made his debut at América de Cali in 1986, but only played seven league games for the club before being transferred to Deportes Tolima . There, too, he only played a year and came to thirteen missions during that time. He then joined Cúcuta Deportivo , where he stayed for another year. At Cúcuta Deportivo Albeiro Usuriaga was able to recommend himself with a total of 25 league appearances and four goals in the 1988 season, even at larger clubs, so that he took Atlético Nacional from Medellín under contract for the 1989 season . There the attacker experienced his most successful season as a football player, because the team of coach Francisco Maturana was extremely successful internationally. In the 1989 Copa Libertadores they switched off the Racing Club from Argentina , CD Los Millonarios and Danubio FC from Uruguay and finally stood in the final, where they met the Paraguayan representative Club Olimpia . After the first leg in Asunción was lost 2-0, the chances of a Colombian team's first Copa Libertadores success seemed to have sunk, but the team around players like René Higuita , Andrés Escobar and Luis Carlos Perea were able to level the deficit and prevail in the subsequent penalty shoot-out. Albeiro Usuriaga was used in both finals, scored the important goal in the second leg to make it 2-0 in the 46th minute and also sank his penalty on penalties.

After a year at Atlético Nacional, Albeiro Usuriaga left the club and continued his odyssey through South American football, even though he first moved to Spain for half a year to join Málaga FC , where he was not really able to assert himself. For three years he then rejoined his hometown club América de Cali, where he won the Colombian football championship in 1990 and 1992. In 1993 he played again briefly for FC Málaga, but only in the second team, and then went to CA Independiente in Argentina for a year and a half , where he made 38 league appearances and won the Argentine championship in Torneo Clausura with the club in 1994 . In the same year they were also victorious in the Supercopa Sudamericana and a year later in Recopa Sudamericana .

From 1995 to 2003 Albeiro Usuriaga played for eleven other clubs, including positions at CA Independiente and Los Millonarios in Bogotá, as well as at the Brazilian club FC Santos . In the preliminary round of the 1995/96 season Usuriaga played for Club Necaxa , which was able to successfully defend its championship title from the previous season at the end of the season . In 1997 he was tested positive for cocaine during a doping control and was banned for two years. In 2003, Usuriaga ended his football career as a player for Carabobo FC in Venezuela at the age of 37.

National team

Between 1989 and 1991 Albeiro Usuriaga made a total of fifteen international matches for the Colombian national soccer team . He succeeded in scoring. He was in the first big squad for Colombia for the 1990 World Cup in Italy , but was later removed from the World Cup squad by national coach Maturana due to disciplinary problems.

successes

1989 with Atlético Nacional
1994 and 1995 with CA Independiente
1995 with CA Independiente
1986, 1990 and 1992 with América de Cali
Clausura 1994 with CA Independiente

death

Albeiro Usuriaga was gunned down by strangers on February 11, 2004 in his hometown of Cali after visiting a nightclub and died shortly afterwards of his injuries. The background to the crime has not yet been fully clarified.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albeiro Usuriaga at Medio Tiempo ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Former Colombia soccer player Albeiro Usuriaga shot dead cbs.sportsline.com February 11, 2004 ( Memento of March 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Usuriaga, Albeiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Usuriaga López, Albeiro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Cali , Colombia
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2004
Place of death Cali , Colombia