Léider Preciado

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Preciado and the second or maternal family name is Guerrero.

Léider Preciado

Personal information
Full name	Léider Calimenio Preciado Guerrero
Date of birth	(1977-02-26) February 26, 1977
Place of birth	Tumaco, Nariño, Colombia
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995–1996	El Cóndor
1996–1997	Cúcuta Deportivo
1998	Santa Fe
1998–1999	Racing Santander	16	(2)
1999–2000	Toledo	11	(1)
2000–2001	Racing Santander	16	(3)
2001	Santa Fe	21	(15)
2002	Once Caldas	18	(9)
2002–2003	Deportivo Cali	68	(38)
2004	Santa Fe	28	(17)
2004–2005	Al Shabab
2005–2008	Santa Fe	96	(46)
2008–2009	Deportivo Quito	25	(5)
2009	América de Cali	8	(1)
2010	Deportes Quindío	18	(8)
2011	Santa Fe	17	(2)
International career
1998–2007	Colombia	12	(4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Léider Calimenio Preciado Guerrero (born 26 February 1977) is a retired Colombian football striker, who currently manages minor league teams (lower divisions) for Independiente Santa Fe.

Club career

He has played for Independiente Santa Fe, Once Caldas, Racing Santander (Spain), CD Toledo (Spain), Deportivo Cali and Al Shabab (Saudi Arabia) as well as for one of the most popular clubs from Ecuador, Sociedad Deportivo Quito. He was part of their 2008 championship team.

Preciado is one of the most important Colombian strikers; he has scored 108 goals for Independiente Santa Fe, 3 of them at the Copa libertadores de América in 2006, and more than 160 goals in his entire career. He was the top scorer of the second half of the Colombian Championship (Torneo Finalización) in 2003 and 2004.

On April 26, 2008, Preciado became one of the 3 leading scorers, besides Miguel Ángel Converti and Alfredo Castillo, in the history of the Bogotá Derby (Independiente Santa Fe vs Club Deportivo Los Millonarios), after scoring in Santa Fe's 2-0 victory over Millonarios. Preciado has 15 goals in this Derby, all of them with Santa Fe.

International career

He played for the Colombia national football team and was a participant in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where he scored one goal against the Tunisia national football team.