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Carlos Arango

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Playing position
  
Forward


Years
  
Team

Name
  
Carlos Arango

Date of birth
  
(1928-01-31)31 January 1928

Date of death
  
19 August 2014(2014-08-19) (aged 86)

Place of death
  
Los Angeles, United States

Place of birth
  
Santa Marta, Colombia

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Carlos Arango Medina (Santa Marta, 31 January 1928 - Los Angeles, 19 August 2014) was a Colombian football forward, often known as "El Maestro".

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Career

Born in Santa Marta, Arango began his professional football career with Deportes Caldas in 1948, and he would win the league title with Caldas in 1950. He was the only Colombian player in Deportes Samario's first professional squad in 1950. He also played for Atlético Nacional, Santa Fe, Independiente Medellín, Cúcuta Deportivo and Millonarios in Colombia, Monarcas Morelia in Mexico, and La Salle, Vasco and Litoral in Venezuela.

Arango made 22 appearances and scored six goals for the Colombia national football team from 1946 to 1965. He scored Colombia's first goal in FIFA World Cup qualifying, a header against Uruguay in Bogota on 16 June 1957.

Honours

International

  • Central American and Caribbean Games Gold Medal (1): 1946
  • References

    Carlos Arango Wikipedia