Rodolfo Arruabarrena
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Rodolfo Martín Arruabarrena | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 20 July 1975 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) |
Left-back | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
1985–1992 | Boca Juniors | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1993–2000 | Boca Juniors | 178 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
1996 | → Rosario Central (loan) | 15 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2000–2007 | Villarreal | 219 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
2007–2008 | AEK Athens | 16 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2008–2010 | Tigre | 67 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2010 | Universidad Católica | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1995–2006 | Argentina | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
2011–2012 | Tigre | ||||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Nacional | ||||||||||||||||
2014–2016 | Boca Juniors | ||||||||||||||||
2016–2018 |
Al Wasl | ||||||||||||||||
2018 | Al-Rayyan | ||||||||||||||||
2018–2020 |
Shabab Al Ahli | ||||||||||||||||
2020–2021 | Pyramids | ||||||||||||||||
2022–2023 | United Arab Emirates | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Rodolfo Martín Arruabarrena (born 20 July 1975) is an Argentine professional
Club career
Argentina
"El Vasco" Arruabarrena (The
While with Boca, Rodolfo Arruabarrena won the Apertura in 1998 and the
Villarreal
From Boca he moved to Spanish Villarreal in mid 2000. Because of his reliability while playing as the team's
Arruabarrena's goals in the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League helped to eliminate Scottish club Rangers F.C. and Italians Inter Milan to reach the semi-finals in the club's first ever season in the competition.
With Villarreal CF he won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2003 and 2004, and played 200 league and international matches for the Spanish team (as of 10 September 2006).
AEK Athens
On 3 May 2007, El Vasco signed a three-year contract with Greek Super League runners-up AEK Athens for €800,000 per year for two years, extendable for a third. According to Arruabarrena, an important role for his decision to continue his career in Greece was played by Lorenzo Serra Ferrer (AEK manager) and Demis Nikolaidis (former star player and later president of his new club who played for Atlético Madrid in 2003–04).[1]
In
On 29 July 2008, AEK Athens manager
International career
El Vasco played five matches with the Argentina national team, as well as several with the youth team. Arruabarrena made his first cap against Chile in 1994. He also played some matches in 1995 and one against England on 23 February 2000. Arruabarrena was not called up again for national team duty until September 2006, when Alfio Basile called him for a friendly match against Spain, and then again in February 2007 for another friendly against France. Arruabarrena was also called up for another friendly match against Chile on 18 April 2007 but he was left on the substitutes' bench.
Career statistics
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
Argentina | 1994 | 2 | 0 |
1995 | 1 | 0 | |
1996 | 0 | 0 | |
1997 | 0 | 0 | |
1998 | 0 | 0 | |
1999 | 0 | 0 | |
2000 | 1 | 0 | |
2001 | 0 | 0 | |
2002 | 0 | 0 | |
2003 | 0 | 0 | |
2004 | 0 | 0 | |
2005 | 0 | 0 | |
2006 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 5 | 0 |
Managerial statistics
- As of match played 28 March 2023
Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
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G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
Tigre | 5 January 2011 | 21 October 2012 | 76 | 28 | 26 | 22 | 99 | 86 | +13 | 36.84 | |
Nacional | 26 March 2013 | 31 December 2013 | 27 | 16 | 2 | 9 | 45 | 34 | +11 | 59.26 | |
Boca Juniors | 29 August 2014 | 29 February 2016 | 75 | 47 | 13 | 15 | 122 | 57 | +65 | 62.67 | |
Al Wasl
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1 July 2016 | 30 June 2018 | 63 | 37 | 14 | 12 | 130 | 79 | +51 | 58.73 | |
Al-Rayyan | 5 July 2018 | 8 October 2018 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 44.44 | |
Shabab Al Ahli | 11 October 2018 | 8 March 2020 | 56 | 39 | 8 | 9 | 118 | 48 | +70 | 69.64 | |
Pyramids FC | 11 November 2020 | 29 June 2021 | 36 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 51 | 35 | +16 | 47.22 | |
United Arab Emirates | 13 February 2022 | 1 July 2023 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 19 | −9 | 28.57 | |
Total | 356 | 192 | 82 | 82 | 583 | 365 | +218 | 53.93 |
Honours
Player
Boca Juniors
Villarreal
Universidad Católica
- 2010
Manager
Boca Juniors
Al-Rayyan
- Sheikh Jassim Cup: 2018
Shabab Al Ahli
- UAE President's Cup: 2018–19
- UAE League Cup: 2018–19
- 2018–19
References
- ^ "El adiós de Arruabarrena" (in Spanish)
- ^ Rodolfo Arruabarrena at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ "Villarreal 0-0 Heerenveen (Aggregate: 2 – 1)". UEFA. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ "Atletico 2-0 Villarreal (Aggregate: 2 – 2)". UEFA. Archived from the original on 29 August 2004. Retrieved 30 May 2020.