Juan Arango

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Juan Arango
Personal information
Full name Juan Fernando Arango Sáenz
Date of birth May 16, 1980 (1980-05-16) (age 28)
Place of birth    Maracay, Venezuela
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Playing position Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current club RCD Mallorca
Number 18
Youth clubs
UCV Junior Team
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1996–1999
1999
2000
2000–2001
2002–2003
2003–2004
2004–present		 Nueva Cádiz FC
Zulianos FC
Caracas FC
CF Monterrey
CF Pachuca
CF Puebla
RCD Mallorca
012 0(0)
019 0(5)
045 0(6)
051 (16)
036 0(8)
146 (38)   
National team2
2000–present Venezuela 067 (13)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 7 June 2008.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 29 September 2006.
* Appearances (Goals)

Juan Fernando Arango Sáenz, Juan Arango (born May 16, 1980 in Maracay), is a Venezuelan footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for RCD Mallorca in La Liga, and for the Venezuela national team. Arango has played more than 70 times for Venezuela, making him the fifth most capped player in the history of Venezuelan international football.[1]He is known as "Arangol" in Venezuela, and has been nicknamed the "Caribbean Hurricane" by Luis Omar Tapia in ESPN's telecasts.

Arango is one of the few Venezuelan players ever to play for a first division team in any of the major European leagues, and is widely regarded as the best player Venezuela has ever produced.

[edit] Career

Arango started playing as a professional footballer at the age of sixteen with Nueva Cádiz FC, ascended to the Venezuelan first division the following season under the name of Zulianos FC.

In January 1999, Arango played for the first time with the Venezuelan national team, a friendly against Denmark.

From Zulianos, Arango came to Caracas FC. After six months playing with the team, he was bought by Mexico's Club de Fútbol Monterrey. He played for two other Mexican clubs, CF Pachuca and CF Puebla, until 2004, when he joined La Liga's Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, in Spain.

On March 20, 2005, Arango suffered a serious injury, after a brutal collision with Sevilla FC's defender Javi Navarro. He fell unconscious, broke his cheekbone, swallowed his tongue and got serious cuts in his face.[2]He returned to play a month later and, in 2005-06, was the team's top scorer with 11 league goals.

In 2006, EFE chose him as the third best Latin American player in the Spanish league, with the first place taken by Pablo Aimar.

In 2007, new national coach Cesar Farias named Arango team captain, and he also obtained a Spanish passport, in March. His parents are Colombian, having emigrated to Venezuela before he was born.

[edit] References

  1. ^ rsssf: Venezuela record international footballers
  2. ^ Navarro assaults Arango

[edit] External links

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1 Moyà • 2 I. Ramis • 3 F. Navarro • 5 Scaloni • 6 Basinas • 7 Varela • 8 Borja Valero • 9 Webó • 10 Ibagaza • 11 Tuni • 12 Chori Castro • 14 D. Güiza • 15 Molinero • 16 Nunes • 17 D. Navarro • 18 Arango • 20 O. Trejo • 21 Dorado • 22 Ballesteros • 23 Jonás • 24 Héctor • 25 Lux • 26 Nsue • Manager: Manzano