Arturo Boyacá Gamboa (born 17 April 1957) is a Colombian

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and former player.

Career

Born in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

, Boyacá played for

Independiente Santa Fe Club Independiente Santa Fe, known simply as Santa Fe, is a Colombian professional football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the El Campín stadium. Santa Fe is one of the th ...

as a senior. After retiring, he began his managerial career with

Deportes Tolima Club Deportes Tolima S.A., commonly known as Deportes Tolima, or simply as Tolima, is a Colombian professional football club based in Ibagué, Tolima Department that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. Founded in 1954, the club has wo ...

, before being named in charge of Santa Fe in August 1993. After managing

Deportes Quindío Deportes Quindío is a professional Colombian football club based in Armenia that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. The club was founded on 8 January 1951, and its best achievement was winning the 1956 league tournament. They play th ...

and Venezuelan side Minervén, Boyacá returned to Santa Fe in 1999 to take over the youth categories. On 21 November 2002, he replaced

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at the helm of the first team. Boyacá was Miranović's assistant in the following years, at Ecuadorian sides Olmedo and

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. He returned to managerial duties in 2007, with

Categoría Primera B Categoría Primera B, commonly referred to as Torneo BetPlay Dimayor due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay (formerly ''Torneo Águila''), is the second-division football league in Colombia. Format DIMAYOR has applied a new forma ...

side

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. On 18 August 2010, after a period back at Santa Fe as an assistant, Boyacá was named manager of

Unión Magdalena Unión Magdalena () commonly known as El Unión, and nicknamed as El Ciclón Bananero (The Banana Cyclone) and also Los Samarios (The Samarios), is a Colombian football club from the city of Santa Marta, capital of the department of Magdalena, ...

. He opted to leave the club in December to join 's staff at Venezuelan side

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, but returned to his home country in the following year to take over Santa Fe. Dismissed on 19 September 2011, he spent more than a year without a club before being appointed in charge of Quindío on 12 June 2013. Boyacá resigned from Quindío on 24 September 2013, and worked at

Boyacá Chicó Boyacá is the name of a region in Colombia. It may refer to other connections to Colombia: * Battle of Boyacá * Boyacá Department (Gran Colombia) * Boyacá Department ** Boyacá, Boyacá, a municipality * Boyacá State, a former state * P ...

in 2014. On 25 April 2016, he was appointed

La Equidad Club Deportivo La Equidad Seguros, also known as La Equidad, is a professional Colombian football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Metropolitano de Techo stadium. History ...

manager, but was sacked on 1 June of the following year. On 7 January 2019, Boyacá returned to Santa Fe as manager of the youth categories, but left the club in July. On 10 February 2022, he was named at the helm of

Patriotas Boyacá Patriotas Boyacá, also known as Patriotas, is a professional Colombian football team based in Tunja, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. They play their home games at the La Independencia stadium. History Patriotas was founded i ...

, but left on 18 May.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyaca, Arturo 1957 births Living people People from Bogotá Colombian footballers Independiente Santa Fe footballers Colombian football managers Categoría Primera A managers Deportes Tolima managers Independiente Santa Fe managers Deportes Quindío managers Academia F.C. managers Unión Magdalena managers Boyacá Chicó managers La Equidad managers Patriotas Boyacá managers Colombian expatriate football managers Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Venezuela Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador Expatriate football managers in Venezuela