In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Salcido and the second or maternal family name is Flores.
Carlos Salcido
Salcido in 2008
Personal information
Full name
Carlos Arnoldo Salcido Flores[1]
Date of birth
(1980-04-02) 2 April 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth
Ocotlán, Jalisco, Mexico
Height
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Position(s)
Left-back, defensive midfielder, centre-back
Youth career
1999–2001
Deportivo Oro[3]
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
2001–2006
Guadalajara
96
(2)
2006–2010
PSV
121
(3)
2010–2012
Fulham
23
(0)
2011–2012
→ UANL (loan)
37
(1)
2012–2014
UANL
86
(5)
2014–2018
Guadalajara
117
(2)
2019
Veracruz
29
(0)
Total
509
(13)
International career
2012
Mexico Olympic (O.P.)
10
(0)
2004–2014
Mexico
123
(10)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Mexico
Olympic Games
2012 London
Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Carlos Arnoldo Salcido Flores (Latin American Spanish:[ˈkaɾlosaɾˈnoldosalˈsiðoˈfloɾes]; born 2 April 1980) is a Mexican former professional footballer. He started his career as a centre-back and played most of it as left-back, then converted to defensive midfielder and ended it as centre-back. He won the 2012 Olympic gold medal.[4]
After emerging through Guadalajara's youth system, he went on to be a mainstay for PSV Eindhoven, acting as vice-captain for the Dutch team and was the first player from Mexico to be champion in the Eredivisie. Salcido also played a season for Fulham before returning to Mexico with Tigres UANL. In 2014 he returned to Guadalajara, winning the league title with the club in 2017.
Internationally, Salcido represented the national team in three World Cups: 2006, 2010, 2014 and three Gold Cups: 2005, 2007, 2011, He was a member of Mexico's team that won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He made his first national team appearance at the age of 24 in 2004. In 2014, after the World Cup in Brazil, Salcido officially retired from the national team.
Salcido served as the first president of the Liga de Balompié Mexicano.
^"2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Mexico" (PDF). FIFA. 21 March 2014. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2019.
^"FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2018: List of Players: CD Guadalajara" (PDF). FIFA. 6 December 2018. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2018.
^Deportivo Oro equipo en el que Salcido inició su carrera retirará su número (in Spanish)
^"Olympics football: Mexico shock Brazil to win gold". BBC. 11 August 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
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