Ángel Arocha
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ángel Arocha Guillén | ||
Date of birth | 23 June 1907 | ||
Place of birth | Tenerife, Spain | ||
Date of death | 2 September 1938 | (aged 31)||
Place of death | Balaguer, Spain | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1925–1927 | Tenerife | 77 | (73) |
1927–1933 | Barcelona | 60 | (49) |
1933–1936 | Atlético Madrid | 32 | (7) |
International career | |||
1931 | Spain | 2 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Angel Arocha Guillen (23 June 1907 – 2 September 1938), commonly known as Arocha, was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward. Arocha began his career with CD Tenerife then he played for FC Barcelona between 1927 and 1933.
Arocha scored 203 goals in 210 matches played with FC Barcelona.
After playing for Barça he moved to Atlético de Aviación. He died in Balaguer during the Spanish Civil War.
Honours
[edit]- FC Barcelona
- La Liga (1): 1929
- Copa del Rey (1): 1928
External links
[edit]- Ángel Arocha at BDFutbol
- Spain stats at BDFutbol
- Ángel Arocha at CD Tenerife.es Archived 24 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
Categories:
- 1907 births
- 1938 deaths
- Spanish men's footballers
- CD Tenerife players
- FC Barcelona players
- Atlético Madrid footballers
- La Liga players
- Spain men's international footballers
- People killed in the Spanish Civil War
- Men's association football forwards
- Catalonia men's international guest footballers
- People from Tenerife
- Footballers from the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife