Faryd Camilo Mondragón Alí (born 21 June 1971) is a Colombian retired professional
footballer
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who played as a
goalkeeper
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.
In a club career that started and ended at his hometown club
Deportivo Cali, Mondragón also had two spells at Argentine club
Independiente. In European football, he had brief spells with
Zaragoza
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in
La Liga
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and
Metz
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in
Ligue 1
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, as well as a full decade split between
Galatasaray
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in the Turkish
Süper Lig
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and
1. FC Köln
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in the
Bundesliga
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.
In a 21-year international career that started in 1993, he played 51 times for the
Colombia national team. He was named in the Colombia squads for the
1992 Olympics, two
Copa América
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tournaments, two
CONCACAF Gold Cup
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s, and the
World Cup
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s of
1994
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In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
,
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 Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
and
2014
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. On 24 June 2014, Mondragón became the oldest player to play a FIFA World Cup match at the age of 43 years and 3 days, a record that was broken four years later by 45-year-old Egyptian goalkeeper
Essam El-Hadary.
Club career
Early career
Born in
Cali
Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE in 2023. The city span ...
, Mondragón began his career began at hometown club
Deportivo Cali, and he moved to
Independiente Santa Fe
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and then
Cerro Porteño
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in Paraguay. Mondragon held a contract with Cerro Porteño until May 1993.
His deal Cerro Porteño was a six-month loan with the option to buy for
US$
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700,000.
During his stay at Cerro Porteño, he lived in the
Hotel Excelsior in Asunción.
In the 1993 Cerro Porteño team, he played with Paraguayans
Carlos Gamarra,
Francisco Arce,
Estanislao Struway,
Virgilio Ferreira, Ecuadorian
Luis Capurro and Brazilians
Alex Rossi,
Silvio Wielewski,
Carlos Antonio Chaves and
Luís Carlos Carvalho dos Reis. On 23 March 1993, it was announced that Mondragón would join Argentine club
River Plate when Cerro Porteño finished its participation in the
Copa Libertadores
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.
Following a Copa Libertadores game for Cerro Porteno against
Newell's Old Boys
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A ...
in
Rosario
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, Mondragón flew to
Buenos Aires
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to sign his contract and Cerro Porteño discarded the possibility of permanently signing him because the cost was too high.
Mondragón joined the
Argentine first division side
Argentinos Juniors
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in 1993, and then made his international debut for Colombia. The following year he moved to
Independiente where he won, among other titles, the
1995 Supercopa Libertadores against
Flamengo
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. Apart from some brief periods, he largely stood at the club until 2001.
At the end of 1998, Mondragón signed on loan for
Real Zaragoza
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in Spain's
La Liga
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. He was unable to take the starting place from established goalkeeper
Juanmi during his brief spell in
Aragon
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.
Metz and Galatasaray
Mondragón played for
Metz
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in the French
Ligue 1
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during the
2000–01 season. In December 2000 he was investigated for the
Greek passport he was using to bypass the league's quota of non-European Union players.
The following April, he was convicted of falsification of documents and fined 300,000
French franc
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s (€45,000) as well as being banned from France for two years, all as a
suspended sentence
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.
Toulouse
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and
Marseille
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appealed to the league that Mondragón played against them in May, but their concerns were dismissed as they had not raised concerns about his presence on the matchday sheets; Metz had avoided relegation at Toulouse's expense.
[
From 2001 to 2007, Mondragón played for ]Galatasaray
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in the Turkish Süper Lig
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, winning two titles and a Turkish Cup
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. In recognition of his achievements, in 2015 he was made Turkey's honorary consul
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A consu ...
in Colombia, on the request of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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.
Later career
Mondragón transferred from Istanbul
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to 1. FC Köln
1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., better known as simply 1. FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English language, English, is a German professional association football, football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 ...
in May 2007. After arriving at his new club, he was forced to compete with established Köln goalkeeper Stefan Wessels for a spot in the starting eleven. One of the reasons that he chose 1. FC Köln it was because the current coach Christoph Daum was working there. After an intense pre-season, Mondragón was named as the new number one for 1. FC Köln. This resulted in Wessels leaving the club for Everton in England. Since Wessels departure, Mondragón established a first choice goalkeeper for the club until Mondragón was relegated to the bench after an altercation with Zvonimir Soldo
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Club career
Early career
After studying law for six semesters at the University of Zagr ...
over his desire to go on international duty. This resulted in Mondragón being sent home from the team hotel and being replaced by young Croatian stopper Miro Varvodić.
His contract with Köln was terminated with effect from 31 December 2010, the reason being Mondragón's desire to play in the MLS.
He spent the 2011 season with Philadelphia Union
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of Major League Soccer
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, where he was successful in providing leadership to a young team. On 30 January 2012, Deportivo Cali announced Mondragón had signed a one-year contract to finish his career with his original professional club. He retired after two and a half seasons back at the club.
International career
Early career
Mondragón was selected for the 1992 Olympic tournament. He made his full international debut against Venezuela
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in a 1–1 friendly home draw on 21 May 1993. He was selected for the Colombia national team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup
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and the Copa América
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of 1993
The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
and 1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
. Profiting from the absence of regular goalkeeper René Higuita, he played at the latter tournament in Bolivia, which ended with quarter-final elimination to the host team.
1998 World Cup
During the 1998 FIFA World Cup
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in France, Mondragón started in goal for all three of Colombia's games, including the final group match against England
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. Despite conceding two goals, he made some impressive saves and in doing so kept the score down to 2–0, with the BBC
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's South American football correspondent Tim Vickery saying that Mondragón was "single-handedly responsible for the fact that England did not run up a cricket score". At the end of the game, Mondragón broke down in tears (as the match decided who would go through to the next round after Romania
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) and David Seaman
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, England's goalkeeper, did his best to console him. According to German footballing legend Franz Beckenbauer
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, Mondragón had been the best goalkeeper of the first round.
1998–2014
At the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup
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For the first time since 1993, the tournament was held in more than one country, with ga ...
, Mondragón was in goal for three games, including the 2–0 quarter-final loss to Brazil
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. Two years later, he played all five games in a run to the semi-finals, including the 2–1 quarter-final win over reigning champions Mexico
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at the NRG Arena
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.
After the latter Gold Cup, Mondragón was recalled to the Colombia team in September 2010 for friendlies against Ecuador
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and the United States
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in the latter country; he was 39. He started against the latter on 12 October, in a goalless draw.
2014 World Cup
Along with Carlos Valderrama, the country's most capped player, Mondragón is the only Colombian to have participated in five FIFA World Cup qualification
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Qualifying tournaments ar ...
campaigns.[ In 2010, he was recalled to the Colombian squad at the age of 39 after a five-year absence from international football. In 2014, he was named in Colombia's squad for the ]2014 FIFA World Cup
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, making him the oldest player at the tournament, and in World Cup history, at the age of 43, and the only squad member from the 1994 FIFA World Cup
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. He is also the only player to have participated in 6 different World Cup qualifying campaigns since 1993. By coming on as a substitute in the 85th minute of the final group game against Japan
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on 24 June 2014, he became the oldest player ever to play in a World Cup game at the age of 43 years and 3 days old, surpassing the record set by Roger Milla for Cameroon at the 1994 World Cup. Mondragón gave an interview afterwards, expressing his gratitude to have been given the opportunity to represent Colombia one last time at a World Cup. His record for oldest player in World Cup history was broken four years later at the 2018 World Cup
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by 45-year-old Egyptian goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary. Since Mondragón's last World Cup finals appearance prior to 2014 was in 1998, he also set a record for longest gap (16 years) between two finals appearances.
After Colombia's elimination to the host country Brazil in the quarter-finals, Mondragón officially confirmed his retirement from football and thanked the fans and nation for the support after stating, "This is my last stadium as a professional player. I'm proud to be part of this wonderful group. Thank you all for the years of support.".
Personal life
Mondragón is of Lebanese descent. Mondragón was nicknamed "''El Turco''" ("The Turk"), a name given in Latin America to people descending from the Turkish-governed Ottoman Empire
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, regardless of their ethnicity. His first name Faryd means "unique or unmatched" in Arabic
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. He is a Maronite
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and has said so publicly along with making the sign of the cross
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on multiple occasions before matches.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Independiente
*Recopa Sudamericana
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: 1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
*Supercopa Libertadores
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: 1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
Galatasaray
*Süper Lig
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: 2001–02, 2005–06
*Turkish Cup
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: 2004–05
Deportivo Cali
*Superliga Colombiana
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: 2014
See also
*FIFA World Cup records
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References
External links
*
* at Fútbol XXI
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1971 births
Living people
Footballers from Cali
Colombian men's footballers
Colombian people of Lebanese descent
Deportivo Cali footballers
Real Cartagena footballers
Independiente Santa Fe footballers
Cerro Porteño players
Argentinos Juniors footballers
Club Atlético Independiente footballers
Real Zaragoza players
FC Metz players
Galatasaray S.K. footballers
1. FC Köln players
Philadelphia Union players
Deportivo Cali
Men's association football goalkeepers
Olympic footballers for Colombia
Footballers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Colombia men's international footballers
1994 FIFA World Cup players
1997 Copa América players
1998 FIFA World Cup players
2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
Colombian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
Expatriate men's footballers in Paraguay
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Categoría Primera A players
Paraguayan Primera División players
Argentine Primera División players
La Liga players
Ligue 1 players
Süper Lig players
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Major League Soccer players
Major League Soccer All-Stars
Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Colombian expatriate sportspeople in France
Colombian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Paraguay
Sportspeople of Lebanese descent
Honorary consuls
21st-century Colombian sportsmen
20th-century Colombian sportsmen