Ariel Garcé

Ariel Garcé
Personal information
Full name	Ariel Hernán Garcé
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Centre back / Right back
Team information
Current team	Colón
Number	46
Youth career
	River Plate
Senior career*
Years	Team
1999–2004	River Plate
2003	→ Monarcas Morelia (loan)
2004–2005	Colón
2005–2006	Olimpo
2006–2007	Rosario Central
2007–	Colón
International career‡
2003–2010	Argentina
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:09, 6 August 2011 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Ariel Hernán Garcé (born 14 July 1979) nicknamed Chino (Chinese), is an Argentine football defender who currently plays for Colón de Santa Fe in the Argentine Primera División. He usually plays as a central defender or as a right full-back.

Career

Club

Garcé started his career with River Plate in 1999. He was part of two championship winning squads before moving on loan to Monarcas Morelia in Mexico in 2003. Garcé returned to River Plate in 2004 and helped the club to win the Clausura 2004 tournament.

Garcé then had his first spell with Colón de Santa Fe, before playing for Olimpo de Bahía Blanca and Rosario Central. While at Olimpo, Garcé was banned for 6 months by the Argentine federation after he tested positive of cocaine.^[1]

In 2007 he returned for a second spell with Colón.

National team

Garcé played two friendly matches under Marcelo Bielsa's coaching for the Argentina national football team in 2003. He then played a friendly against Haiti under Diego Maradona. On the May 19, 2010 Garcé was surprisingly selected as one of the 23 men to play for Argentina in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa though he did not feature in any matches.^[2]

National team statistics

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Honours

River Plate

Argentine Primera División (3): Clausura 2000, Clausura 2002, Clausura 2004

References

^ "Ariel Garcé fue suspendido por ingerir cocaina" (in Spanish). Diario de Cuyo. 2006-02-16. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^ "¡Acá están, estos son!" (in Spanish). Olé. 2010-05-19. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^ http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=319

External links

Statistics at Irish Times
Ariel Garcé at National-Football-Teams.com
Template:Es icon Argentine Primera statistics

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[1] "Ariel Garcé fue suspendido por ingerir cocaina" (in Spanish). Diario de Cuyo. 2006-02-16. Retrieved 2010-05-19.

[2] "¡Acá están, estos son!" (in Spanish). Olé. 2010-05-19. Retrieved 2010-05-19.

[3] ttp://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=319

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