Arael Argüelles Rodríguez (born 30 April 1987) is a Cuban football player.
Club career
He played for his provincial team
Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos (), capital of Cienfuegos Province, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba. It is located about from Havana and has a population of 178,368 in 2022. Since the late 1960s, Cienfuegos has become one of Cuba's main industrial centers, ...
in Cuba.
International career
Argüelles represented Cuba's U-23 national team in the
2008 CONCACAF Men Pre-Olympic Tournament, playing in two group game losses against Honduras and Panama.
He made his senior international debut for Cuba in an international friendly against Guatemala on 23 August 2014.
He was called up to the
2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup
The 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 13th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition and the 23rd CONCACAF regional championship overall in the organization's fifty-four years of existence. It was held in the United States, with two matches bei ...
, but defected after the opening 6–0 loss against
Mexico
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.
Keyler García,
Darío Suárez
Pedro Darío Suárez Castro (born 8 August 1992) is a Cuban footballer.
Club career AFC Ann Arbor
In 2016, Suárez joined AFC Ann Arbor in the National Premier Soccer League. In June 2017, he received a 6-month suspension for kicking the ball a ...
and
Ariel Martinez also fled their country at the same tournament.
Gold Cup: Striker Ariel Martinez becomes the fourth player to defect from Cuba
- MLS Soccer
References
External links
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1987 births
Living people
Cuban men's footballers
Cuba men's international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
FC Cienfuegos players
Defecting Cuban footballers
2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
Sportspeople from Cienfuegos
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