Alfredo Arango

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Arango and the second or maternal family name is Narváez.
Alfredo Arango
Personal information
Full name Alfredo Arango Narváez
Date of birth (1945-02-16)16 February 1945
Place of birth Santa Marta, Colombia
Date of death 20 December 2005(2005-12-20) (aged 60)
Place of death Santa Marta, Colombia
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965–1972 Unión Magdalena
1972–1973 Millonarios
1974 Unión Magdalena
1975–1976 Bucaramanga
1977 Junior
1978–1980 Unión Magdalena
National team
1968 Colombia Olympic 3 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Alfredo Arango Narváez (16 February 1945 – 20 December 2005)[1] was a Colombian international footballer. He competed for the Colombian national football team at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[2]

Career

Born in Santa Marta, Arango played professional football in Colombia. The midfielder spent most of his playing career with Unión Magdalena. He won the Colombian league title with Unión in 1968, and is the club's all-time leading goal-scorer with 104 total goals.[3] He also won league titles with Millonarios (1972) and Atlético Junior (1977).[4][5]

López played for the Colombia national football team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.[6]

Personal

In December 2005, Arango died in his home city of Santa Marta.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Tobías, Aantonio (21 December 2005). "De Santa Marta: nota complementaria de Alfredo Arango (qepd)" [Santa Marta: Additional note on Alfredo Arango (RIP)] (in Spanish). El Colombiano.
  2. ↑ Alfredo Arango – FIFA competition record
  3. ↑ "Máximos goleadores" (PDF) (in Spanish). Club Unión Magdalena. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "El adiós para dos ídolos del fútbol nacional" [Goodbye to two idols of national football] (in Spanish). El Colombiano. 20 December 2005.
  5. ↑ "Adiós a dos glorias del fútbol" [Goodbye to two football icons] (in Spanish). El Pais. December 2005.
  6. ↑ "Alfredo Arango Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  7. ↑ "Murieron ex futbolistas Alfredo Arango y Oscar López" [Former footballers Alfredo Arango and Oscar López died] (in Spanish). Nacion.com. 20 December 2005.


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