Víctor Aristizábal

Víctor Hugo Aristizábal Posada (born 9 December 1971 in Medellín, Antioquia) is a Colombian retired football striker. Aristizábal scored 15 goals in 66 games for the Colombia national team between 1993 and 2003.

Club career

He started his career in Atlético Nacional, and played there from 1990 to 1996 only interrupted by a short spell with Valencia CF in 1994. Winning the Colombian league twice with Nacional, he eventually moved to play in Brazil. He played for São Paulo and Santos before spending two seasons at Nacional and Deportivo Cali. In 2002, he once again moved to Brazil, and played for EC Vitória, Cruzeiro and Coritiba. Aristizábal is the all-time top foreign goalscorer in the Brazilian league. He is also the all-time Colombian goalscorer with 348 goals, of which about 200 goals were scored with Atlético Nacional, club which he is also the top goalscorer. He is the only player that has won 6 championship with Atlético Nacional. He announced his retirement from football on November 2007 after suffering an awkward knee injury.^[1]

International career

Between 1993 and 2003, Aristizábal played 66 international matches and scored 15 goals for the Colombia national team. He was an unused substitute for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, but played all three matches at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Aristizábal finished as top scorer with six goals in the 2001 Copa América held in Colombia, as Los Cafeteros won the title for the first time. He was also a member of the nation's squad for the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, where they finished in fourth place.

During the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign, Aristizábal announced he was retiring from international soccer after being dropped for a match against Brazil.

International goals

Scores and results list Colombia's goal tally first.^[2]

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	30 May 1993	Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Santiago, Chile	Chile	1–0	1–1	Friendly
2.	16 July 1993	Estadio 9 de Mayo, Machala, Ecuador	Mexico	2–1	2–1	1993 Copa América
3.	9 February 1994	Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	1–0	1–0	Friendly
4.	26 February 1994	Weingart Stadium, Monterey Park, United States	South Korea	2–2	2–2
5.	2 June 1996	Estadio Nacional, Lima, Perú	Peru	1–1	1–1	1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
6.	16 June 1997	Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera, Santa Cruz, Bolivia	Costa Rica	4–1	4–1	1997 Copa América
7.	11 July 2001	Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez, Barranquilla, Colombia	Venezuela	2–0	2–0	2001 Copa América
8.	14 July 2001		Ecuador	1–0	1–0
9.	17 July 2001		Chile	1–0	2–0
10.	23 July 2001	Estadio Centenario, Armenia, Colombia	Peru	1–0	3–0
11.				3–0
12.	26 July 2001	Estadio Palogrande, Manizales, Colombia	Honduras	2–0	2–0
13.	14 November 2001	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción, Paraguay	Paraguay	1–0	4–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
14.				2–0
15.				3–0

Club statistics

Source:^[3]

Honours

References

External links

• Víctor Aristizábal at National-Football-Teams.com
• Midfield Dynamo's 10 Heroes of the Copa América Víctor Aristizábal listed in the top 10