Vicente Arze

Vicente Arze ( born November 22, 1985 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra ) is a Bolivian soccer player on the position of midfielder. He is currently without a club; his last stop was the Vancouver Whitecaps with gaming operations in the former second-class North American USL First Division.

Career

Youth

Arze began his active career as a football player in the famous soccer academy Tahuichi and came from there to the next generation of Blooming Club. In his home town he stayed until 1999 before joining the new millennium in the youth department of the Argentine first division CA Newell 's Old Boys. Around the same time also left the world footballer of the year 2009, Lionel Messi, the Los Leprosos, the nickname of the Argentine Association. Even today announced Vicente Arze, still to be the current FC Barcelona player a fan. For the Argentines, he came to 2004 in various youth leagues to use and attended from 2000 to 2002 the club's academy.

Upon his return to Bolivia, he decided in 2004 to go to the United States in order to attend college and play successful college football. Immediately after his arrival in the U.S., he enrolled at Mercer University, where he was also adopted shortly thereafter. In his freshman year he came in 21 championship games available for use, by whom he was in 20 from the start on the pitch and scored a total of three goals and made ​​seven assists. In the same year he was named Atlantic Sun Conference Freshman of the Year and selected to the All- Atlantic Sun First Team. Overall, he came in his first year with the Mercer Bears, the sports team of the University, on 67 shots on goal, which he ranked in the Atlantic Sun Conference in the first place.

Due to his achievements Arze was elected to the All- First team of Conferences again in the following year. During the season, he came in 14 games completed on eight goals and three assists. After seven goals and an assist in 14 league games again the young Bolivians was elected in his junior year in 2006 to the All- Atlantic Sun Second Team. During the season scoring in a game Arze a hat-trick in another he met in a twin pack. Once more into the All- Conference Second- Team of the midfielder was elected in his final senior year, during which he won in 19 games as a midfielder of his quality when he came on five goals and seven assists. Throughout his time at Mercer University Arze came as a total of 68 championship inserts, 23 goals and 18 assists.

Club career

Vicente Arze is next to Richard Perdomo, who was active first in U.S. soccer and later moved to the highest football league of Honduras, Roberto Cronembold Aguilera, who is currently the CD Guabirá, the newly promoted from the second-class Bolivian Copa Simón Bolívar in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano plays one of the few players who made the leap from Mercer University in professional football. But Arzes entry into professional football began slowly, as he was a promising place in the MLS Supplemental Draft in 2008 and was drafted as the 25th pick in the second round to the Kansas City Wizards. There, however, no professional contract was offered to him, which is why it has a one-year contract with the Vancouver Whitecaps took only shortly after his draft to Kansas City, which had at that time still in the second-class North American USL First Division ( USL -1).

In his first season at the new club, he was used in addition to the official league events in friendlies against MLS franchises and in the Canadian Championship in 2008. His professional debut was Arze equal in the first round on April 12, 2008 in a 1-0 victory over Canadian rivals Montreal Impact. At his first goal as a professional football player, he came on May 24, 2008, a 1-0 victory over the Portland Timbers. That same week, he was elected to the Team of the Week of the USL - 1, together with his team mate Adrian Cann for his hit. At the end of the season, Whitecaps ranked with a point spacing on the offensive strong Puerto Rico Islanders FC in the final table of the regular season in second place in the table. In the subsequent playoffs, the team of Teitur Þórðarson October 12, 2008 was able to prevail in the final against the Puerto Rico Islanders 2-1 and was therefore hailed as a master of USL -1.

In the Canadian Championship 2008, during which the Bolivians were two brief appearances, the Vancouver Whitecaps only reached the third and final place of the competition. Together with Osvaldo Alonso from Charleston Battery and Martín Núñez of the Carolina RailHawks FC, ​​he was one of the contenders for the Rookie of the Year Award of the USL First Division. Throughout the season, he went to 26 league operations, in which he scored a goal and gave two assists.

On 16 December 2008, Arze and the Board of Directors of the Whitecaps agreed to a contract extension of the Bolivian midfielder for another year. In the season of 2009 he came to another league operations and was awarded along with Lyle Martin with the Whitecaps Blue & White Award. It was also awarded in the same year in his home for Club Aurora in the top division of the country, he came to two division operations. With the end of the 2009 season Vicente Arze left in tow with some other players, the Vancouver Whitecaps and has since been without a club. Previously, he was the end of June 2009 or two appearances for the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency with gaming operations in the fourth division USL Premier Development League.

Internationally

During his time in junior CA Newell 's Old Boys Arze was brought into the squad of the Bolivian U-20 national team. He came during the Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 2003 used. The tournament served as a qualification for the Junior World Cup in 2003 in the United Arab Emirates.

Achievements

Family / Private

His father's name is Vicente Arze senior, his mother Maggie Camacho. He also has a stepbrother named Jean -Pierre Arze. The midfielder comes from a sports-loving family. His mother is a former Bolivian Bowling Champion, his uncle Monen Camacho former South American race car driver and his cousin Diego Camacho is an active tennis player, who participated for his native country at the tennis tournament in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and then played at the University of Tulsa Tennis.

Immediately after his arrival from Argentina to the United States from 2004 Arze lived in Macon in the U.S. state of Georgia. In May 2008 he graduated from Mercer University in the fields of business management and marketing. Currently ( 2010) lives Arze in Cochabamba, is currently the fourth largest city in Bolivia.