Arturo Rodríguez Quezada (born 8 January 1990) is a Mexican professional

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who played in the

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for Pumas Morelos.

Life and career

Rodríguez was born in

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, to Arturo Rodríguez and his wife Liz Quezada. He played football in the youth systems of both San Luís and

Necaxa Impulsora del Deportivo Necaxa S.A. de C.V. (); often simply known as Club Necaxa, is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Aguascalientes (city), Aguascalientes. It competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican ...

before joining

Pumas UNAM Club Universidad Nacional, A.C., simply known as Pumas UNAM, is a professional football club based in Mexico City. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Founded in 1954 as Club Deportivo Universidad, and they play ...

at the age of 15. Playing for

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team Pumas CCH in the last match of the 2008 Clausura, the 18-year-old Rodríguez scored ten goals in a 14–0 defeat of G.R. Sport to make him joint top scorer in the competition with 22. His first-team debut came in August 2009 in the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage, as Pumas fielded an inexperienced side against

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of Guatemala; he replaced Carlos Orrantia after an hour as his team won 1–0. Rodríguez made two more substitute appearances in the same competition, but those were his last for the senior team. He spent the remainder of his Pumas career with the

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, Pumas Morelos, for which he made 62 appearances in the second tier. The team was sold by Pumas midway through the

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and was relegated at the end, after which it folded. Rodríguez went on to play for third-tier clubs

Irapuato Irapuato is a Mexican city and municipalities of Mexico, municipality located at the foot of the Arandas Hill (in Spanish Language, Spanish: ''Cerro de Arandas''), in the central region of the Mexican state, state of Guanajuato. It lies between the ...

, Pioneros de Cancún, and

Reynosa Reynosa () is a border city in the northern part of the state of Tamaulipas, in Mexico which also holds the municipal seat of Reynosa Municipality. The city is located on the southern bank of the Rio Grande in the international Reynosa–McAlle ...

. He helped the latter reach the play-offs in 2016, but went into the semi-final second leg carrying an injury and was

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as Reynosa were eliminated by Murciélagos B. Rodríguez left the club at the end of the season once he passed the

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age limit of 25.

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1990 births Living people Footballers from Mexico City Mexican men's footballers Men's association football forwards Club Universidad Nacional footballers C.D. Irapuato footballers Pioneros de Cancún footballers Atlético Reynosa footballers Ascenso MX players Liga Premier de México players Tercera División de México players 21st-century Mexican sportsmen {{Mexico-footy-forward-1990s-stub