Alejandro Botero

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Alejandro Botero
Personal information
Full name Alejandro Botero López
Date of birth (1980-10-08) October 8, 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth Pereira, Colombia
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Deportivo Cali
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2002 Deportivo Cali (Total) 80 (0)
2002–2003 Independiente 5 (0)
2003–2005 Argentinos Juniors 14 (0)
2005 Deportivo Cali (see above) (0)
2006–2009 San Martín (SJ) 8 (0)
2009–2010 Boyacá Chicó 42 (0)
2011–2012 Deportes Tolima 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alejandro Botero López (born October 8, 1980) is a former Colombian football player. He played as goalkeeper in the professional divisions of Colombian and Argentine football.[1][2]

After his retirement from professional football in 2012, he resumed his career as a commercial aviator, which he had started in the years during which he was playing in Argentine football.[3][4]

Career[edit]

He played in the goalkeeper position, both wearing the shirt of the Colombian professional football team and in football teams in that country and in Argentina.[1]

His sports career began at the age of 18, serving the Deportivo Cali club, where he played for 4 years.

In the Argentine club Independiente de Avellaneda, he was champion in 2002; however, in this club he did not have the opportunity to be a starting goalkeeper.[5][6]

Later, Botero went down a division to play with Argentinos Juniors. At the end of the 2003–2005 season, this team managed to be promoted to play in the Argentine first division, with Botero having a successful performance.

In September 2005, he returned to the Deportivo Cali club, a Colombian team where he had started his career as a football player. There he won the professional football tournament that year.

In 2006, he returned to Argentine football, playing with the San Martín de San Juan club,[3][7] where he had the opportunity to play for the second time with a team that was promoted to the Argentine first division.

In 2009, he returned to Colombian football, where he joined the Boyacá Chicó team.[8]

His professional career began in 1998 and ended in 2012.

Retirement from football[edit]

In 2011, while he was playing for the Deportes Tolima team in Colombia, he made the decision to retire from professional football, to dedicate himself to resuming his career as a commercial aviator.[4]

He had already partially started this career, at the Academia Flight Center in Buenos Aires, from the time he was playing in Argentine football.[3]

His father, David Botero, was a tourism agent and airline representative, which inspired Alejandro as a child to be passionate about the field of aviation.[4]

Once he obtained his commercial pilot licenses, Botero López managed to be hired by Avianca.[9]

Clubs[edit]

Club Country Year
Deportivo Cali  Colombia 1998 - 2002
Independiente  Argentina 2002 - 2003
Argentinos Juniors  Argentina 2003 - 2005
Deportivo Cali  Colombia 2005
San Martín de San Juan  Argentina 2006 - 2009
Boyacá Chicó  Colombia 2009 - 2010
Deportes Tolima  Colombia 2011 - 2012

Titles[edit]

National championships[edit]

Botero developed his entire professional career in the national football of Colombia and Argentina:[1]

Title Club Country Year
Primera División Colombiana Deportivo Cali  Colombia 1998
Primera División Argentina Independiente  Argentina 2002
Torneo Finalización Deportivo Cali  Colombia 2005

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Alejandro Botero López". Academia de apuestas Perú - www.academiadeapuestasperu.com (in Spanish). Academia de Apuestas Perú. 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Alejandro Botero López". Penalty.Com - www.penalty.com/en. Penalty.com. 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Daniel Zabala (5 June 2020). "Alejandro Botero, el exfutbolista que cambió los arcos para pilotear aviones (Alejandro Botero, the former football player who changed football goals to fly planes)". Antena2 - www.antena2.com (in Spanish). Colombia: RCN Radio. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Juan Carlos Pamo (31 May 2020). "Alejandro Botero, el arquero que dejó de volar de palo a palo para conquistar los aires (Alejandro Botero, the goalkeeper who stopped flying from post to post, to conquer the air)". Diario El País Colombia - www.elpais.com.co (in Spanish). Cali, Colombia: El País S.A. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Alejandro Botero". Infodeportes - www.infodeportes.com (in Spanish). Spain: Infodeportes. 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Independiente: Firmó el volante de Colón Diego Castagno Suárez (Independiente: Midfielder of Colón, Diego Castagno Suárez, signed contract)". Diario Clarín - www.clarin.com (in Spanish). Argentina: Clarín Digital. 20 June 2002. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  7. ^ Patricio Barone (4 March 2018). "Se vistieron con los dos colores (They dressed in the two colors)". La Visera - www.lavisera.com.ar (in Spanish). Argentina: La Visera. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  8. ^ ""No podemos permitir que los que van arriba se alejen": Alejandro Botero, arquero de Boyacá Chicó ("We cannot allow those who are up there to get away": Alejandro Botero, goalkeeper of Boyacá Chicó)". FútbolRed - www.futbolred.com (in Spanish). Bogotá, Colombia: El Tiempo, Casa Editorial. 7 August 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Alejandro Botero Lopez - First officer en Avianca (Alejandro Botero Lopez - First officer at Avianca)". LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com (in Spanish). LinkedIn Corporation. 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
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