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Juan Arango
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Venezuelan footballer
OverviewAI-generated
Juan Arango, born Juan Fernando Arango Sáez in Maracay on 17 May 1980, is a Venezuelan association football player also known by the nicknames Arangol and Caribbean Hurricane. He holds citizenship of Venezuela and Spain, plays as a midfielder wearing squad number 18, and began his career in 1996.
Arango has represented Club de Fútbol Monterrey, Caracas Fútbol Club, Club Tijuana and the Venezuela national football team, and speaks Spanish.
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Key facts
- 1999
- Zulia
- 2000
- Caracas
- 2016
- New York Cosmos
- 2017
- Zulia
- Full name
- Juan Fernando Arango Sáenz
- Date of birth
- ( 1980-05-16 ) 16 May 1980 (age 46)
- Place of birth
- Maracay , Venezuela
- Height
- 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
- Position
- Attacking midfielder
- 1986 1996
- UCV
- Years
- Team
- 1996 1999
- Nueva Cádiz
- 2000 2001
- Monterrey
- 2002 2003
- Pachuca
- 2003 2004
- Puebla
- 2004 2009
- Mallorca
- 2009 2014
- Borussia Mönchengladbach
- 2014 2016
- Tijuana
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Jaguares de Córdoba
- Position
- Attacker
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Juan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Maracay
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Sport
- association football
- Position played
- midfielder
- League
- Bundesliga
- Country for sport
- Venezuela
- Mass
- 75
- Official website
- www.juanarango.com
- Image
- Arango.JPG
- Height
- 180
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- Commons category
- Juan Arango
- date of birth
- 1980-05-16
- sport number
- 18
- pseudonym
- ''Caribbean Hurricane''
- start of work period
- 1996-00-00
- birth name
- Juan Fernando Arango Sáenz
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Juan Fernando Arango Sáenz (born 16 May 1980) is a Venezuelan former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Arango was considered by some in the sport as the greatest Venezuelan footballer of all time.
He spent the better part of his professional career in La Liga with Mallorca, appearing in 196 official games, and also played several years with Borussia Mönchengladbach for which he signed at the age of 29.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Juan Arango” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.