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Rodolfo Arruabarrena |
| Rodolfo Arruabarrena | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rodolfo Martín Arruabarrena | |
| Date of birth | July 20 1975 | |
| Place of birth |  Marcos Paz, |
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| Height | 1.78 m | |
| Playing position | Left-back | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club |  AEK Athens FC |
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| Number | 3 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| ?-1993 | Boca Juniors | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1992–1996 1996 1997–2000 2000–2007 2007–present |
Boca Juniors Rosario Central Boca Juniors Villarreal CF AEK Athens FC |
29 (0) 15 (0) 116 (11) 219 (11) 4 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 1994-2000 | Argentina |
6 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Rodolfo Martín Arruabarrena (born July 20 1975 in Marcos Paz) is an Argentine football defence player, recently signed by Greek team AEK Athens FC. He has dual citizenship: Argentine and Spanish.
Early career
"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.
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).
Argentina
El Vasco played 4 matches with the Argentina national football team, as well as several with the youth team. After a friendly match in 2000, Arruabarrena was not convocated for the national team 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.
AEK
On May 3rd 2007 El Vasco signed a 3-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 Atletico Madrid in 2003-2004) [1].
Honours
- Primera División: Apertura: 1998
- Primera División: Clausura: 1999
- Copa Libertadores: 2000
- Copa de Oro: 1993
References
- ^ "El adiós de Arruabarrena" (Spanish)
External links
| AEK Athens FC – current squad |
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1 Kafes • 2 Ramos • 3 Arruabarrena • 4 Alves • 5 Dellas • 6 Alexopoulos • 7 Pappas • 8 Nsaliwa • 9 Kapetanos • 10 Rivaldo • 11 Manduca • 14 Azcárate • 15 Papastathopoulos • 16 Zikos • 18 Blanco • 19 Lagos • 20 Manú • 22 Kone • 24 Diouf II • 25 Pliatsikas • 27 Bourbos • 31 Georgeas • 32 Moretto • 33 Lymperopoulos • 50 Macho • 56 Hetemaj • 80 Tofas • 83 Pavlis • 84 Arabatzis • 88 Tőzsér • 89 Barboudis • 99 Júlio César • Coach: Serra Ferrer |
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