Carlos Arango Medina (Santa Marta, 31 January 1928 - Los Angeles, 19 August 2014) was a
Colombian football
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forward
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, often known as "El Maestro".
Career
Born in
Santa Marta
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, 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
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,
Cúcuta Deportivo and
Millonarios
Millonarios Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the El Campín stadium.
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in
Colombia
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,
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
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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
Colombia
*
Central American and Caribbean Games Gold Medal (1):
1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
* January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
References
External links
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1928 births
2014 deaths
Colombian men's footballers
Colombia men's international footballers
Once Caldas footballers
Atlético Nacional footballers
Independiente Santa Fe footballers
Independiente Medellín footballers
Cúcuta Deportivo footballers
Unión Magdalena footballers
Millonarios F.C. players
Atlético Morelia players
Categoría Primera A players
Liga MX players
Colombian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
Footballers from Santa Marta
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Colombia
Competitors at the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games
Men's association football forwards
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in football
Footballers from Magdalena Department
20th-century Colombian people