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Rodolfo Arruabarrena
	Rodolfo Arruabarrena
Personal information
Full name	Rodolfo Martín Arruabarrena
Date of birth	July 20, 1975 (age 34)
Place of birth	Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Left Back
Club information
Current club	Tigre
Number	6
Youth career
-1992	Boca Juniors
Senior career1
National team2
	1 Senior club appearances and goals; counted for the domestic league only and; correct as of 02:53, 27 February 2009 (UTC).; 2 National team caps and goals correct; as of 19:45, 17 May 2008 (UTC).; * Appearances (Goals)

Rodolfo Martín Arruabarrena (born 20 July, 1975 in Marcos Paz) is an Argentine football player currently playing as a left back for Tigre in the Primera División Argentina. He has a Spanish passport.

[edit] Club career

[edit] Argentina

"El Vasco" Arruabarrena (The Basque) debuted professionally in 1993 with Boca Juniors, where he played until 2000, except for the Apertura 1996, when he was loaned to Rosario Central for 6 months. After returning to Boca, he gained a place in the regular squad.

Whilst with Boca, Rodolfo Arruabarrena won the Apertura in 1998 and the Clausura in 1999 Argentine first division tournaments, as well as the Copa Libertadores 2000. He played a total of 178 games for Boca in all competitions, scoring 7 goals.

[edit] Villarreal

From Boca he moved to Spanish Villarreal in mid 2000. Because of his reliability while playing as the team's left-back, he has been the team's captain in several occasions. He holds Villarreal's record of appearances in La Liga, with 178 first division matches with El Submarino Amarillo (as of December 9, 2005).

Arruabarrena's goals in the 2005-2006 Champions League helped to eliminate Scottish giants Rangers FC and Italians Internazionale 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 September 10 2006).

[edit] AEK Athens

On May 3, 2007, El Vasco signed a three-year contract with Greek Superleague runners-up AEK for 800,000 euros 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 current president of his new club who played for Atletico Madrid in 2003-2004) ^[1].

On Rivaldo's debut Arruabarrena set up the Brazilian legend to score an amazing header. Arruabarrena also set up Ismael Blanco to score against Getafe in the Uefa Cup. Rodolph Arruabarrena managed to have 25 caps for AEK in one season but half of the season he suffered a serious injury but he has recovered and is fit to play for the 2008 season.

On July 29, 2008, AEK Athens manager Giorgos Donis announced to the press that Arruabarrena is not in the first team plans.

[edit] International career

El Vasco played 6 matches with the Argentina national football 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 February 23, 2000. Arruabarrena was not convocated for the national team 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 the 18 April, 2007 but he was left on the Substitutes.

[edit] Honours

Boca Juniors

[edit] References

^ "El adiós de Arruabarrena" (Spanish)

[edit] External links

[0] "El adiós de Arruabarrena" (Spanish)

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