Arnoldo Iguarán

Arnoldo Alberto Iguarán Zúñiga ( born January 18, 1957 in Riohacha ) is a former Colombian football player, who participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1990.

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 Cúcuta Deportivo. In the following three years he was active for Cucuta, winning a title left him there but denied. 1981 Iguarán left Colombia for a year and went to neighboring Venezuela, where he said not too long existing today's top club Deportivo Táchira FC from San Cristóbal joined. Iguarán played only one year at Deportivo Táchira and won the championship with the club. In the Primera División Venezolana 1981 was one champion by a first place in the final round with three points ahead of Estudiantes de Mérida and the FC Valencia, Carabobo FC today. This meant the second after 1979 championship title for Táchira. Despite the success in Venezuela Arnoldo Iguarán left the club after just one year to return to his homeland. Again, only a year he was now for Deportes Tolima on the ball before he in 1983 a contract with Los Millonarios CD signed.

The millionaires became Arnoldo Iguarán, who acted on the position of an attacker, the absolute strain force and spent the next twelve years of his career at the club. In a time in which the Colombian football was in its heyday and 1989 in Atlético Nacional was the first Colombian Copa Libertadores winner, Iguarán could get with Los Millonarios twice the championship after Bogotá, in the years 1987 and 1988, you were first in the Categoría A. While big competitors such as América de Cali, Deportivo Cali and Atlético Nacional could make continental attention, did not succeed in the Millonarios, they failed mostly early in the Copa Libertadores. Overall, Arnoldo Iguarán played until the year 1995 with Millonarios. In the summer of that year, he moved back to his hometown club Cucuta Deportivo, where he was active for two years, before he ended his career at the age of forty in 1997.

National

Between 1979 and 1993 Arnoldo Iguarán came to a total of 68 missions in the Colombian national football team. He is the player with the most appearances for eight Colombia, along with the famous goalkeeper René Higuita. However, most capped player Carlos Valderrama, who was also active at the time of Arnoldo Iguarán, puts it in a good forty international assignments more. With its 25 hits in the national jersey Arnoldo Iguarán however scorer of Cafeteros, five hits before Faustino Asprilla, who met twenty times.

From coach Francisco Maturana, probably the biggest football personality in Colombia at all, Arnoldo Iguarán was appointed to the squad for the World Cup in Italy in 1990. In the tournament, the Colombian team reached the knockout stages, after is in the group stage of the third rank behind Germany, Yugoslavia, and ahead of the United Arab Emirates. The eventual champions Germany defied you doing with a goal by Freddy Rincón in the final minute of the third preliminary round game in Milan's San Siro Stadium from 1-1 and thus secured third place. In the round of sixteen teams were encountered Cameroon. After expiration of the ninety minutes of game time had at the Stadio San Paolo in Naples goalless draw stood and an extension had to decide on the quarter finalists. Two goals from Roger Milla sealed the fate of Colombia, Bernardo Redín could only operate consolation. Arnoldo Iguarán came off the bench during the fourth round in the 63rd minute for Luis Fajardo, before he was in the first two group matches from the beginning and has not been used in the last group match.

Achievements

• Colombian soccer championship: 2x (1987, 1988)

• Venezuelan football championship: 1x (1981 )

• Top scorer in the Copa América: 1x (1987 )