Rodolfo Arruabarrena
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Rodolfo Martín Arruabarrena | ||
| Date of birth | July 20, 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left Back (retired) | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Tigre (Manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1992 | Boca Juniors | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1992–2000 | Boca Juniors | 178 | (11) |
| 1996 | → Rosario Central (loan) | 15 | (0) |
| 2000–2007 | Villarreal | 219 | (11) |
| 2007–2008 | AEK Athens | 16 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 | Tigre | 67 | (2) |
| 2010 | Universidad Católica | 13 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1994–2007 | Argentina | 6 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2011- | Tigre | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 May 2010. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Rodolfo Martín Arruabarrena (born 20 July 1975) is a former Argentine football left back. His last club was Universidad Católica in the Chilean Primera División. He has a Spanish passport.
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[edit] Club career
[edit] Argentina
"El Vasco" Arruabarrena (The Basque) debuted professionally in 1993 with Boca Juniors, where he played until 2000, except for the Apertura 1996, when he was loaned to Rosario Central for 6 months. After returning to Boca, he gained a place in the regular squad.
Whilst with Boca, Rodolfo Arruabarrena won the Apertura in 1998 and the Clausura in 1999 Argentine first division tournaments, as well as the Copa Libertadores 2000. He played a total of 178 games for Boca in all competitions, scoring 7 goals.
[edit] Villarreal
From Boca he moved to Spanish Villarreal in mid 2000. Because of his reliability while playing as the team's left-back, he has been the team's captain in several occasions. He holds Villarreal's record of appearances in La Liga, with 178 first division matches with El Submarino Amarillo (as of December 9, 2005).
Arruabarrena's goals in the 2005–2006 Champions League helped to eliminate Scottish giants Rangers FC and Italians Internazionale to reach the semi-finals in the club's first ever season in the competition.
With Villarreal CF he won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2003 and 2004, and played 200 league and international matches for the Spanish team (as of September 10, 2006).
[edit] AEK Athens
On May 3, 2007, El Vasco signed a three-year contract with Greek Superleague runners-up AEK for 800,000 euros per year for two years, extendable for a third. According to Arruabarrena, an important role for his decision to continue his career in Greece was played by Lorenzo Serra Ferrer (AEK manager) and Demis Nikolaidis (former star player and current president of his new club who played for Atlético Madrid in 2003-2004).[1]
On Rivaldo's debut Arruabarrena set up the Brazilian legend to score an amazing header. Arruabarrena also set up Ismael Blanco to score against Getafe in the Uefa Cup. Rodolph Arruabarrena managed to have 25 appearances for AEK in one season but half of the season he suffered a serious injury but he has recovered and is fit to play for the 2008 season.
On July 29, 2008, AEK Athens manager Giorgos Donis announced to the press that Arruabarrena is not in the first team plans.
[edit] International career
El Vasco played 6 matches with the Argentina national football team, as well as several with the youth team. Arruabarrena made his first cap against Chile in 1994. He also played some matches in 1995 and one against England on February 23, 2000. Arruabarrena was not called up again for national team duty until September 2006, when Alfio Basile called him for a friendly match against Spain, and then again in February 2007 for another friendly against France. Arruabarrena was also called up for another friendly match against Chile on April 18, 2007 but he was left on the substitutes' bench.
[edit] National team statistics
| Argentina national team | ||
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| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 6 | 0 |
[edit] Honours
- Primera División: Apertura: 1998
- Primera División: Clausura: 1999
- Copa Libertadores: 2000
- Copa de Oro: 1993
Club Deportivo Universidad Católica
- Primera División: 2010
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Football database
- Argentine soccer
- Yahoo Sports
- Champions League
- (Spanish) Argentine Primera statistics
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- People from Buenos Aires Province
- Argentine people of Basque descent
- Argentine footballers
- Argentine expatriate footballers
- Argentina international footballers
- 1995 King Fahd Cup players
- AEK Athens F.C. players
- Boca Juniors footballers
- Rosario Central footballers
- Tigre footballers
- Villarreal CF footballers
- Universidad Católica footballers
- Primera División Argentina players
- La Liga footballers
- Superleague Greece players
- Chilean Primera División players
- Argentine expatriates in Chile
- Expatriate footballers in Chile
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Expatriate footballers in Greece
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Greece
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Naturalised citizens of Spain
- Spanish people of Argentine descent
