Arnoldo Iguarán

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Arnoldo Iguarán
Personnel
Surname Arnoldo Alberto Iguarán Zúñiga
birthday January 18, 1957
place of birth Riohacha ,  Colombia
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1980 Cúcuta Deportivo
1981 Deportivo Táchira
1982 Deportes Tolima
1983-1995 Los Millonarios
1995-1997 Cúcuta Deportivo
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1979-1993 Colombia 68 (25)
1 Only league games are given.

Arnoldo Alberto Iguarán Zúñiga (born January 18, 1957 in Riohacha ) is a former Colombian soccer player who took part in the 1990 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Arnoldo Iguarán was born in 1957 in Riohacha, the capital of the Colombian province of La Guajira in the north of the country. In this part of the country he also started playing football; in 1978 he was inducted into the first team of Cúcuta Deportivo . In the following three years he was active for Cúcuta , but he was denied winning a title. In 1981 Iguarán left Colombia for a year and went to neighboring Venezuela , where he joined the not-too-long-existing top club Deportivo Táchira FC from San Cristóbal . Iguarán only played one year at Deportivo Táchira and was still able to become champions with the club. In the Primera División Venezolana 1981 one was champion by a first place in the final round with three points each before Estudiantes de Mérida and the Valencia FC, today's Carabobo FC . This meant the second championship title for Táchira after 1979. Despite the success in Venezuela, Arnoldo Iguarán left the club after only one year to return to his homeland. He was on the ball for Deportes Tolima for only one year before signing a contract with CD Los Millonarios in 1983 .

Arnoldo Iguarán, who acted in the position of an attacker, became an absolute regular among the millionaires and spent the next twelve years of his career with the club. At a time when Colombian football was experiencing its heyday and in 1989 in Atlético Nacional had the first Colombian Copa Libertadores winner, Iguarán was able to bring the championship to Bogotá twice with Los Millonarios , in 1987 and 1988 they were first in the A categoría . While the big competitors like the América de Cali , Deportivo Cali or Atlético Nacional were able to draw attention to themselves continentally, the Millonarios did not succeed, they usually failed early in the Copa Libertadores. Overall, Arnoldo Iguarán played for Millonarios until 1995. In the summer of that year he moved back to his hometown club Cúcuta Deportivo, where he was active for two years before ending his career in 1997 at the age of forty.

National team

Between 1979 and 1993 Arnoldo Iguarán came to a total of 68 appearances in the Colombian national football team . Together with goalkeeper René Higuita, he ranks eighth on the list of players with the most international matches for Colombia. Record international Carlos Valderrama , who was also active in the times of Arnoldo Iguarán, has forty more international appearances. With his 25 goals in the national jersey, Arnoldo Iguarán was the record scorer in the cafeteros , but was replaced on June 7, 2017 by Falcao , who scored 26 times.

Arnoldo Iguarán was appointed to the squad for the 1990 soccer World Cup in Italy by national coach Francisco Maturana . At the tournament, the Colombian team reached the round of 16 after finishing third behind Germany , Yugoslavia and ahead of the United Arab Emirates in the group stage . The eventual world champion Germany defied it with a goal from Freddy Rincón in the last minute of the third preliminary round match in the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in Milan and secured third place. In the round of the best sixteen teams they met Cameroon . At the end of the ninety minutes of the game, it had been a goalless draw at the Stadio San Paolo in Naples and extra time had to decide on the quarter-finals. Two goals from Roger Milla sealed the end for Colombia, Bernardo Redín could only do cosmetic results. Arnoldo Iguarán came on as a substitute for Luis Fajardo in the 63rd minute of the round of 16 , previously he had not been used in the first two group games from the start and in the last group game.

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personal data
SURNAME Iguarán, Arnoldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iguarán Zúñiga, Arnoldo Alberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Riohacha , Colombia