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Juan Arango
Personal information
Full name Juan Fernando Arango Sáenz
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Borussia M'gladbach
Number 18
Youth career
UCV
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1999 Nueva Cádiz
1999 Zulianos 12 (0)
2000 Caracas 19 (5)
2000–2001 Monterrey 45 (6)
2002–2003 Pachuca 51 (16)
2003–2004 Puebla 36 (8)
2004–2009 Mallorca 183 (45)
2009– Borussia M'gladbach 36 (3)
International career‡
1999– Venezuela 85 (17)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 May 2010
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 September 2009

Template:Spanish name 2 Juan Fernando Arango Sáenz (born 16 May 1980) is a Venezuelan footballer who plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the German first division, as an attacking midfielder.

Having played more than 80 times for Venezuela,[1] Arango is one of the few Venezuelan players ever to play for a first division team in any of the major European leagues, and is widely regarded as the best player the country has ever produced.

He is known as "Arangol" in Venezuela, and has been nicknamed the "Caribbean Hurricane" by Luis Omar Tapia in ESPN's telecasts.

Football career

Arango's parents are Colombian, having emigrated to Venezuela before he was born, in the city of Maracay. He started playing as a professional at the age of sixteen with Nueva Cádiz FC, which ascended to the Venezuelan first division the following season under the name Zulianos FC.

The following year, he joined Caracas Fútbol Club but, after six months playing with the team, was bought by Mexico's Club de Fútbol Monterrey.

Arango played for two other Mexican clubs, C.F. Pachuca and Puebla FC, until 2004, when he joined La Liga side Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, in Spain (coached by Benito Floro, also his boss at Monterrey) on a one-year link with an option for a further three.[2] Earlier that summer, he appeared in all three group stage matches during the Copa América.

On 20 March 2005, Arango suffered a serious injury, after a brutal collision with Sevilla FC's defender Javi Navarro. He fell unconscious, broke his cheekbone, swallowed his tongue and got serious cuts in his face.[3][4] He returned to play a month later and, in 2005–06, was the team's top scorer with 11 league goals.

In 2006, EFE chose Arango as the third best Latin American player in the Spanish league, with the first place taken by Pablo Aimar. The following year, new national coach César Farías named him team captain, and he also obtained a Spanish passport, in March. On 9 March 2008, Arango scored his first hat-trick for Mallorca, in a 7–1 home thrashing of Recreativo de Huelva, with teammate Daniel Güiza, who finished as the season's Pichichi, adding two.[5] He only missed one league game from 2005–08 combined.

As his contract was due to expire at the end of 2009–10, Arango was sold on 26 June 2009 to Borussia Mönchengladbach, for €3.3 million, penning a three-year contract.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Venezuela - Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  2. ^ "Arango wings his way to Mallorca". UEFA.com. Retrieved 22 January 2010. {{cite web}}: Text "date 21 July 2004" ignored (help)
  3. ^ "Un codazo de Javi Navarro mandó a Arango a la UCI (An elbow by Javi Navarro sends Arango to Intensive Care)" (in Spanish). Diario AS. 21 March 2005. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Navarro assaults Arango". YouTube. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  5. ^ "Barça lose ground with Villarreal loss". UEFA.com. 9 March 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  6. ^ "Arango ya es jugador del Borussia M'Gladbach (Arango a Borussia M'Gladbach player)" (in Spanish). Diario Marca. 27 June 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
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