Fernando Arce

Fernando Enrique Arce Ruiz ( born April 24, 1980 in Tijuana) is a Mexican football player.

Career

Association

Fernando Arce began his career in 2000 in the Mexican first division club CD Irapuato. There he gained his first experience in professional football, but could not recommend crucial for a regular place itself. Two years later he signed for CD Veracruz. In the first half of the Championship series, he completed 18 games for the Tiburones Rojos and scored one goal. In the following years he was at the club regularly used and was able to win any title wins with the club. For the Apertura 2003, he moved to Atlante. There he quickly made ​​it into the starting eleven and scored in the following Clausura six goals in 20 games. After one year, the midfielder left the club again and joined Monarcas Morelia.

In the following three and a half years, he finally got on to a prolific midfielder and scored during the Clausura 2007 seven goals in 18 games. A year later he moved again within the highest Mexican league, the Primera División, and signed with Santos Laguna. Arce won the Clausura 2008 once his first title with his new employer and contributed to this success six goals in 21 games at.

After the rise of the Club Tijuana from his hometown in the first division, he moved to the beginning of the 2011/12 season to the Xolo, 2012 with whom he won his second title in the Apertura.

National

The midfielder was in 1997 for the first time the jersey of a Mexican selection, when he took part with the U- 17 team at the FIFA U-17 World Cup. In the group stage, with opponents Spain, New Zealand and Mali he won a victory with Mexico and lost two games. Arce was there in all three games from the beginning to the field and scored in their last group match in the 2:3 defeat to Spain his only goal of the tournament. This was the resignation in the group stage result. After he was able to convince CD Veracruz and CF Atlante at his club stations, he was appointed first time as friendly match on 4 February 2003 against Argentina in the national team. After 68 minutes he was substituted for Braulio Luna and thus debuted for the Mexican national team. Even with its four additional inserts in the same year he was always on as a substitute on the field.

In the following years he again received several contingents for the national team, but only in the course of the calendar year 2007, he managed to become a regular player and established itself as an important part of the final selection. Arce played with the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup in his first international tournament. While he was still playing through the opening game against Cuba, he came into the quarter-and semi-finals only to short sessions. In the final match against the United States, which ended with a 2-1 victory in favor of the Americans, he was not used. Shortly thereafter, he took with the national team and the tournament of Copa America 2007, which took place in Venezuela. The first group game against Brazil was surprisingly won 2-0, with seven points from the group stage, Mexico qualified for the next round. In these games the midfielder ran onto the pitch and thrust forward with the team to the semi-finals, where they lost 0:3 with the Argentines. The 3rd place match was won 3-1 against Uruguay, but Arce was at that game 90 minutes on the bench.

The following year he fell on especially in the qualifiers to the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2009, when he in a 3-0 win against Jamaica the opening goal for Mexico scored on 6 September 2008, and was able to record two Torerfolge 7-0 victory over Belize. In calendar year 2009, he received five appeals to the national team and completed it three games. His only use full-length, he played on 28 March 2009 in a 2-0 win against Costa Rica, against Bolivia and El Salvador, he completed one half.