Ariel Garcé
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ariel Hernán Garcé | ||
| Date of birth | 14 July 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Tandil, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | |||
| Youth career | |||
| River Plate | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2004 | River Plate | 98 | (0) |
| 2003 | → Morelia (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Colón | 23 | (1) |
| 2005–2006 | Olimpo | 15 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Rosario Central | 32 | (1) |
| 2007–2012 | Colón | 139 | (5) |
| 2012–2013 | Argentinos Juniors | 31 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Atlético de Rafaela | 31 | (0) |
| Total | 380 | (7) | |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2003–2010 | Argentina | 4 | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22:09, 6 August 2011 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 18:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC) | |||
Ariel Hernán "Chino" Garcé (born 14 July 1979), is a former Argentine football defender. He played as a central defender or right back in River Plate, Colón de Santa Fe, Olimpo de Bahía Blanca, and Atlético de Rafaela.
Career
Club
Garcé started his career with River Plate in 1999. He was part of two championship winning squads before moving on loan to Monarcas Morelia in Mexico in 2003. Garcé returned to River Plate in 2004 and helped the club to win the Clausura 2004 tournament.
Garcé then had his first spell with Colón de Santa Fe, before playing for Olimpo de Bahía Blanca and Rosario Central. While at Olimpo, Garcé was banned for 6 months by the Argentine federation after he tested positive of cocaine.[1]
In 2007, he returned for a second spell with Colón.
In 2014, he played for Atlético de Rafaela, finishing his career in that club.[2]
International
Garcé played two friendly matches under Marcelo Bielsa's coaching for the Argentina national football team in 2003. He then played a friendly against Haiti under Diego Maradona. On 19 May 2010, Garcé was surprisingly selected as one of the 23 men to play for Argentina in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa though he did not feature in any match.[3] According to Maradona, he saw a dream of an Argentina squad winning the World Cup, and the only face he could remember was Garcé's.[4]
Outside Football
He started his auto racing career in 2019. Five years later, he won for the first time at Autódromo Municipal Juan Manuel Fangio, participating in Fiat Competizione, a supporting class of Super TC2000.[5]
Career statistics
International
| Argentina national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 4 | 0 |
Honours
River Plate
References
- ^ "Ariel Garcé fue suspendido por ingerir cocaina" (in Spanish). Diario de Cuyo. 16 February 2006. Archived from the original on 22 May 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ "Garcé retires from professional football" (in Spanish). Diario El Litoral. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- ^ "¡Acá están, estos son!" (in Spanish). Olé. 19 May 2010. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ "¡World Cup 2010: The best of Argentina manager Diego Maradona". The Guardian. London. 4 July 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ "De jugar un Mundial con Argentina a ganar su primera carrera en automovilismo - TyC Sports". www.tycsports.com (in Spanish). 9 June 2024. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ^ "Ariel Garcé". National-Football-Teams.com.
External links
- Statistics at Irish Times at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 October 2011)
- Ariel Garcé at National-Football-Teams.com
- Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 May 2015) (in Spanish)