Alfonso Andrés Obregón Cancino (born May 12, 1972) is a retired

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ian football player.

Club career

Obregón spent the majority of his professional career with

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. He has made over 300 appearances in the defensive midfield position and captained the team for a number of years before ceding the position to

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. He won five

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titles and the

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with ''los albos''.

International career

At the international stage, Obregón earned 58 caps for the Ecuador national team between 1995 and 2004. His debut came on October 25, 1995, in a friendly against

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. He would go on to form part of the squad that participated in the

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and played at the

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

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/ref> His last match came in the 2004 Copa América against

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. He currently serves as the sporting director for

LDU Portoviejo Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Portoviejo is a professional football club from the city of Portoviejo, Ecuador. They play in the Serie A, Their rival team is Delfín, against whom they contest the ''El Clásico Manabita''. Achievements *Seri ...

in his hometown.

Honors

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

, 1999,

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

, 2005 Apertura,

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

Copa Libertadores The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as the Copa Libertadores de América ( pt, Copa Libertadores da América), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in S ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

References

External links

Obregón's FEF Player Card
* 1972 births Living people People from Portoviejo Association football midfielders Ecuadorian footballers C.D. ESPOLI footballers L.D.U. Quito footballers Delfín S.C. footballers Ecuador international footballers 2001 Copa América players 2002 FIFA World Cup players 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2004 Copa América players {{Ecuador-footy-midfielder-stub