Alejandro Botero
Personal information
Full name Alejandro Botero López
Date of birth (1980-10-08) October 8, 1980
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

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

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

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

National championships

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 3 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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