Armando Ribeiro

Armando

Armando in 2009
Personal information
Full name Armando Ribeiro de Aguiar Malda
Date of birth (1971-01-16) 16 January 1971
Place of birth Sopelana, Spain
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth career
1986–1988 Ugeraga
1988–1990 Logroñés
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1992 Logroñés B 34 (0)
1992–1994 Sporting Gijón B 9 (0)
1994–1998 Alavés 5 (0)
1994–1995 → Bermeo (loan) 36 (0)
1998–1999 Barakaldo 18 (0)
1999–2008 Cádiz 267 (0)
2008 → Athletic Bilbao (loan) 16 (0)
2008–2010 Athletic Bilbao 3 (0)
Total 388 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Armando Ribeiro de Aguiar Malda (born 16 January 1971), known simply as Armando, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

He spent most of his 20-year senior career with Cádiz (nine seasons overall, appearing in all three major levels of Spanish football), finishing it with Athletic Bilbao where he played three of his four La Liga campaigns, with a total of 44 games.

Football career

Armando was born in Sopelana, Biscay. After representing several clubs in the lower leagues, with an unassuming three-year second division spell at Deportivo Alavés, he spent nine years of his career at Cádiz CF, being the second level's Zamora in 2004–05 and first-choice throughout most of the following season's La Liga, as the Andalusians were immediately relegated back.[1]

In January 2008, Cádiz loaned Armando to Athletic Bilbao, which had lost first-choice Gorka Iraizoz for six months due to a knee injury.[2] In a away match against Real Betis on 15 March, he was hit by a bottle thrown by an opposing fan, with his club leading 2–1 and twenty minutes left; he needed six stitches to a wound just inches below the eye, and Athletic were later awarded the win by the Royal Spanish Football Federation.[3][4]

At the end of the campaign, the loan move was made permanent by the Basques and, with Iraizoz recovered, Armando beat competition from Iñaki Lafuente and served as backup. His only two appearances in 2008–09 were on 28 February 2009 in a 1–2 home loss against Sevilla FC, as manager Joaquín Caparrós rested the entire starting squad for the Copa del Rey semi-final second leg, coincidentally also against Sevilla,[5] and against Real Betis also at San Mamés in a 1–0 success, for the same reason (the upcoming final against FC Barcelona).

Armando retired at the end of 2009–10, having appeared in three matches (two in the cup and the last round of the league). His final appearance – 15 May 2010 against Racing de Santander – set a record as the club's oldest player in the league, aged 39 years, 119 days.[6] He was immediately appointed to Athletic's coaching staff for the following season.[7]

Personal life

In October 2016 Armando was acting as goalkeeping coach for CD Basconia (Athletic Bilbao's youth farm team) in a match against CD Vitoria in which one of the opposition goalscorers was his son Alain. The young midfielder repeated the feat in the return fixture in March 2017.[8]

His younger son Iban is also a footballer who spent time in Athletic Bilbao's Lezama youth system[9] and also played for Danok Bat CF.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Armando, toda una garantía (Armando, full assurance); Mundo Deportivo, 16 December 2005 (in Spanish)
  2. ↑ El Athletic se refuerza con el meta Armando (Athletic bolsters with keeper Armando); Marca, 28 January 2008 (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ Madrid lose as Riazor curse strikes again; UEFA.com, 15 March 2008
  4. ↑ Real Betis 1–2 Athletic Bilbao; ESPN Soccernet, 15 March 2008
  5. ↑ Magic Madrid achieve ten straight wins; UEFA.com, 1 March 2009
  6. ↑ "Los 15 jugadores más veteranos de la Liga: Valerón estará en la lista" [The 15 most veteran players of the League: Valerón will be on the list]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). 23 June 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  7. ↑ Victory, great ambiance and emotional farewells; Athletic Bilbao, 15 May 2010
  8. ↑ "Alain vuelve a castigar a su aita Armando" [Alain returns to punish his dad Armando]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 6 March 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "Iban Ribeiro de Aguiar". Athletic Bilbao. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  10. ↑ "El Juvenil B asalta Zubieta y el C se vuelve de vacío de Tolosa" [Juvenil B assaults Zubieta and the Cs come up empty in Tolosa] (in Spanish). Danok Bat CF. 19 February 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
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