Faryd Mondragón

Faryd Mondragón
Faryd Mondragón, 2008
Personnel
Surname	Faryd Camilo Aly Mondragón
birthday	June 21, 1971
place of birth	Cali ,  Colombia
size	191 cm
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1990	Deportivo Cali
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1990-1991	Deportivo Cali	1 (0)
1991	→  Sporting de Barranquilla  (loan)
1991-1993	Independiente Santa Fe	0 (0)
1993	Cerro Porteño	11 (0)
1993-1994	Argentinos Juniors	28 (0)
1994-2000	Club Atlético Independiente	121 (1)
1998-1999	→  Real Saragossa  (loan)	13 (0)
2000-2001	FC Metz	30 (0)
2001-2007	Galatasaray Istanbul	208 (1)
2007-2010	1. FC Cologne	106 (0)
2011–2012	Philadelphia Union	29 (0)
2012-2014	Deportivo Cali	78 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1993-2014	Colombia	51 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Faryd Camilo Mondragón Aly (born June 21, 1971 in Cali ) is a former Colombian football goalkeeper of Lebanese descent.

Career

Club career

Beginnings in Colombia and Argentina

The descendant of Lebanese immigrants began his career in Colombia at Deportivo Cali . There he made his debut in 1990 in a game against Santa Fé in Bogotá in the professional team. In 1991 he was loaned to Sporting de Barranquilla , in whose team he convinced with good performances. Via Independiente Santa Fé and Cerro Porteño ( Paraguay ) he came to the Argentinos Juniors in the capital Buenos Aires in the 1993/94 season . After a season he moved to the league competitor Independiente , where he stayed until 1998.

Career in Spain, France and Turkey

For the 1998/99 season he moved to the Spanish first division club Real Saragossa . After another year in the goal of Independiente Mondragón went in July 2000 in the French Ligue 1 for FC Metz . Although relegation was barely prevented and he himself was awarded the Étoile d'Or , Mondragón had to leave the club after a year. He then played for Galatasaray Istanbul for six years , becoming Turkish champions in 2002 and 2006 and cup winners in 2005.

Faryd Mondragón in the dress of 1. FC Köln

1. FC Cologne

In July 2007, Mondragón moved to 1. FC Cologne , who was playing in the second division at that time . There he received a two-year contract with the option for a further year and wore the shirt number 1. With FC he rose to the Bundesliga in 2008 and was the first South American goalkeeper in the German premier league. In the 2010/11 season , Mondragón was the oldest active football player in the Bundesliga. He replaced Jens Lehmann , who had ended his career at the end of the previous season.

Due to a trip to two friendly matches with the Colombian national team, Mondragón lost his regular place in the Kölner Tor in October 2010. In December 2010, his contract was terminated.

Philadelphia Union and return to Colombia

The goalkeeper moved to the North American Major League Soccer . In January 2011, Mondragón signed a contract with the Philadelphia Union . He replaced Danny Califf as team captain .

On January 30, 2012, he moved to Deportivo Cali .

National team

In the national team , Mondragón was long overshadowed by Óscar Córdoba . He was already on the bench at the 1994 World Cup in the USA . He played at the 1998 World Cup in France , but dropped out with Colombia after the preliminary round. Subsequently, Colombia missed both the 2002 World Cup and qualification for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In October 2009 he refused a comeback in the national team because he wanted to concentrate on 1. FC Köln. His national team career seemed to be over for good.

At the age of 39, Mondragón was called up again for two test matches in the national team. In the game against Ecuador (October 8, 2010) and the USA (October 12, 2010) he was supposed to represent the injured goalkeeper David Ospina . However, Ospina was in goal again in the first test match. In the game against the United States, however, Mondragón played from the start. After good performances for Deportivo Cali, he was called up on August 10, 2012 at the age of 41 for the international match against Uruguay on September 7, 2012 . In 2014 national coach José Pekerman nominated him for the Colombia squad for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil . On June 24, 2014, he came on for David Ospina in the World Cup game against Japan five minutes before the final whistle; at 43 years and 3 days, he became the oldest player to have played in a World Cup final. At the 2018 World Cup , he was replaced by the Egyptian Essam El-Hadary (45 years and 161 days).

On July 5, 2014, Mondragón resigned from the national team and ended his active career.

various

In February 2010, Mondragón was appointed ambassador for the Cologne non-profit association KIDsmiling , whose social soccer project “Come Bolzen!” He supported.

He has been involved in various scandals during his career, including an affair involving forged passports during his time at FC Metz . Mondragón and four other South American players from different clubs had played games with false European passports, thus circumventing the foreigner regulation. After a game in the intermediate round of the UEFA Champions League between AS Roma and Galatasaray, a fight broke out between the Italian and Turkish players, police officers and fans; in this context, Mondragón was also investigated.

After the end of his active career, he works internationally as a motivational coach and gives lectures for companies.

Web links

• Faryd Mondragón in the database of weltfussball.de
• Faryd Mondragón in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mondragón se vuelve a poner la verde ( Spanish ) In: Deportivo Cali footballers . January 30, 2012. Archived from the original on January 16, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 19, 2014. 
2. ↑ "I'm the Bundesliga oldie and damn proud of it" ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from July 20, 2010 on bild.de.  
3. ^ Lars Wallrodt: Cologne chaos with biblical dimensions . World online. October 24, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
4. ↑ http://bundesliga.de/de/liga/news/2010/index.php?f=0000170977.php
5. ↑ Farewell to FC - Now official: Mondragon leaves
6. ^ Union Agree to Terms with GK Mondragon, D Valdes ( English ) Philadelphia Union. January 20, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
7. ↑ Mondragón se vuelve a poner la verde ( Spanish ) In: Deportivo Cali footballers . January 30, 2012. Archived from the original on January 16, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 30, 2012. 
8. ↑ Express.de: Mondragon: "At 43 to the World Cup - that's crazy" (November 20, 2013)
9. ↑ Mondragon appointed to national team ( Spanish ) In: Sport 1 . August 11, 2012. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
10. ↑ Tagblatt : Essam El-Hadary's age record from June 25, 2018
11. ↑ Ex-Cologne Faryd Mondragon is now the oldest World Cup player (June 25, 2014)
12. ↑ Mondragons Adios: Faryd ends his career . In: kicker.de . Retrieved July 7, 2014.
13. ↑ Project "Come on Bolts!" at www.kidsmiling.de
14. ↑ Bailly and Mondragon: Two Strong Types. ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article on www.rp-online.de 
15. ↑ Faryd Mondragon is now a motivational coach, in: Express.de, from June 3, 2015