Omar Arellano

Omar Arellano

Personal information
Full name	Omar Arellano Riverón
Date of birth	June 18, 1987 (1987-06-18)
Place of birth	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	CD Guadalajara
Number	9
Youth career
	CD Guadalajara
–	C.F. Pachuca
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002–2007	C.F. Pachuca	19	(3)
2007-	CD Guadalajara	44	(22)
National team‡
2005–	Mexico	7	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 June 2009. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10 August 2011

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Arellano and the second or maternal family name is Riverón.

Omar Arellano (born June 18, 1987 in Guadalajara) is a Mexican football winger. He currently plays for CD Guadalajara. His nickname is "La Pina".

Club Deportivo Guadalajara

Arellano had originally started playing in club Guadalajara’s youth ranks around the same time as Javier Hernandez. At the age of 14 he decided to make the move to Club Pachuca where his father Omar Arellano Nuño was offered a job as head coach of Club Pachuca’s Juvenil squads. Before returning to Guadalajara in 2007, Arellano had played 394 minutes with Pachuca and had averaged out one goal every 131 minutes. He scored his first goal for CD Guadalajara against their town rivals Atlas, a match that is referred to as "El Clasico Tapatio" (Spanish for "Jalisco's Classic", since they play in the same state and city). On July 12, 2008 while playing the 2008 SuperLiga Arellano scored his second goal with Guadalajara at the 24th minute with a break-away, suitting the number 9 jersey left behind by Omar Bravo and his third goal again in the 2008 Superliga against Houston Dynamo. Arellano scored the two goals that helped Chivas defeat their rivals Club América in the Estadio Azteca in the El Súper Clásico. After a grueling injury that put him in the shelf for months, he returned on February 31, 2009 against F.C. Pachuca where he scored 2 of the 5 goals that his team scored in the 5-0 win. His own father, Omar Arellano Nuño was assistant and for an even shorter amount of time, manager in 2009. On April 4, 2010, he scored against America in the El Súper Clásico and chivas became the first team in the Torneo Bicentenario to qualify to the liguilla. He is also not had good luck with injury due that he came back from one. On April 27, 2010 in the Copa Libertadores, he made an outstanding participation against Vélez Sársfield were he gave two assist in the 3-0 victory for Chivas de Guadalajara. In a friendly against FC Barcelona he gave an assist to Marco Fabian to give Chivas the lead in their friendly in the World Football Challenge. Arellano is sponsored by Adidas and can be seen wearing the Adidas F50 football cleats.

International career

Arellano's first goal with "El Tri" was in a friendly match against Venezuela. He scored last to make the game 4-0.

Statistics

Club	Season	League		Libertadores		Sudamericana		Interliga		Superliga		Total
		GP	Goals	GP	Goals	GP	Goals	GP	Goals	GP	Goals
CF Pachuca	2004–2005	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0
	2005–2006	8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	1
	2006–2007	10	2	2	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	2
Guadalajara	2007–2008	23	1	3	1	3	0	-	-	3	0	32	2
	2008–2009	21	5	2	0	6	3	-	-	3	2	32	10
	2009–2010	25	2	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	2010–2011	36	4	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011–2012	1	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	24 June 2009	Georgia Dome, Atlanta, United States	Venezuela	4–0	4–0	Friendly

Honours

International:

Club:

C.F. Pachuca

• Mexican Championship:
  • Winner (2): Clausura 2006, Clausura 2007
• CONCACAF Champions' Cup:
  • Winner (1): 2007
• Copa Nissan Sudamericana:
  • Winner (1): 2006

Chivas Guadalajara

• Interliga 2009:
  • Winner (1): 2009

External links

• Chivas profile
• Omar Arellano's stats
• Omar Arellano stats at Medio Tiempo.com (Spanish)