Léider Calimenio Preciado Guerrero (born 26 February 1977) is a retired

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

n football striker, who currently manages minor league teams (lower divisions) 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 ...

Club career

He has played for

Once Caldas Once Caldas S.A., simply known as Once Caldas, is a professional Colombian football team based in Manizales, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Palogrande stadium. They were the surprise winners ...

Racing Santander Real Racing Club de Santander, S.A.D. (), also known as Racing de Santander () or simply Racing, is a football club based in Santander, Cantabria, Spain, that currently competes in Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish league syste ...

(Spain),

CD Toledo Club Deportivo Toledo, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Toledo, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Founded in 1928 it plays in Tercera División RFEF – Group 18, holding home games at ''Estadio Salto del Caballo'', w ...

(Spain),

Deportivo Cali Asociación Deportivo Cali, best known as Deportivo Cali, is a Colombian sports club based in Cali, most notable for its football team, which currently competes in the Categoría Primera A. Deportivo Cali is one of the most successful footba ...

and Al Shabab (Saudi Arabia) as well as for one of the most popular clubs from Ecuador,

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. He was part of their 2008 championship team. Preciado is one of the most important Colombian strikers; he has scored 108 goals for

, 3 of them at the

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in 2006, and more than 160 goals in his entire career. He was the top scorer of the second half of the Colombian Championship (Torneo Finalización) in 2003 and 2004. On April 26, 2008, Preciado became one of the 3 leading scorers, besides Miguel Ángel Converti and Alfredo Castillo, in the history of the Bogotá Derby (

Club Deportivo Los 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. Millonarios was initially created in 1937 by students ...

), after scoring in Santa Fe's 2-0 victory over Millonarios. Preciado has 15 goals in this Derby, all of them with Santa Fe.

International career

He played for the

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and was a participant in the

1998 FIFA World Cup The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the football world championship for men's national teams. The finals tournament was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. The country was chosen as the host nation by FIFA for the ...

, where he scored one goal against the

Tunisia national football team The Tunisia national football team ( ar, منتخب تونس لكرة القدم; ) represents Tunisia in men's international association football. The team is a member of both FIFA and CAF, the Confederation of African Football. It is governe ...

References

1977 births Living people Colombian footballers Colombia international footballers 1998 FIFA World Cup players Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Cúcuta Deportivo footballers Independiente Santa Fe footballers Racing de Santander players CD Toledo players Once Caldas footballers Deportivo Cali footballers Al-Shabab FC (Riyadh) players S.D. Quito footballers Deportes Quindío footballers Colombian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Spain Expatriate footballers in Ecuador Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia Categoría Primera A players La Liga players People from Tumaco Association football forwards Colombian people of African descent Sportspeople from Nariño Department {{Colombia-footy-forward-stub