Gabriel Jaime Gómez Jaramillo

Personal information

Full name Gabriel Jaime Gómez Jaramillo

Date of birth December 8, 1959

Place of birth Medellín, Colombia

Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Playing position Midfielder

Senior career*

Years Team Apps† (Gls)†

1981–1986 Atlético Nacional

1987–1988 Millonarios

1989–1990 Independiente Medellín

1991–1994 Atlético Nacional

1995 Independiente Medellín

National team

1985–1995 Colombia 49 (2)

Teams managed

1995 Envigado

1997 –1998 Atlético Nacional

Unión Magdalena

Deportivo Quito

2001 Bucaramanga

2005 Caracas

2008 Atlético Nacional

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for thedomestic league only.

† Appearances (Goals).

Gabriel Gómez

Gabriel Jaime Gómez JaramilloFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gabriel Jaime BarrabasGómez Jaramillo (born 8December 1959 inMedellín) is a retiredColombian footballer whoplayed as a centralmidfielder.

Contents

1 Club career2 Internationalcareer3 Honours4 Personal5 References6 External links

Club career

During his career, Gómezplayed mainly forhometown side AtléticoNacional, representing theclub in eight professionalseasons, in two differentspells, and helping the teamto three first division titles.

Incidentally, in 1989, whenAtlético won theLibertadores Cup, heplayed for city neighbours Independiente Medellín, having signed from ClubDeportivo Los Millonarios. After returning to Nacional in 1991, Gómez retiredfour years later, at the age of 36.

After he retired from playing, Gómez became a football coach. He has managedEnvigado, Atlético Nacional, Unión Magdalena and Atlético Bucaramanga in

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Colombia, Deportivo Quito in Ecuador and Caracas FC in Venezuela.[1]

International career

During nearly one full decade, Gómez was capped 49 times for Colombia, scoring

twice.[2] He represented the nation in two FIFA World Cups, 1990 and 1994, andthree Copa América tournaments: 1987, 1989 and 1993.

In the World Cup, Gómez started in all four of his country's matches in 1990, asColombia ousted in the round of 16 against Cameroon. Four years later, in theUnited States, he received death threats from unknown people prior to the second

group stage match against the hosts, and refused to appear in the game.[3] Daysfollowing the 1–2 loss which certified the South American team's elimination,defender Andrés Escobar was murdered upon returning home, after scoring anown goal in the match.

Honours

Season Team Title

1981 Atlético Nacional Colombian League

1988 Millonarios Colombian League



Personal

Gómez's older brother, Hernán Darío, coached the national teams of Colombiaand Ecuador, amongst others. In 1998, whilst in charge of the former, he also

received anonymous death threats.[4]

References

^ Ortiz Jiménez, Juan Diego (1 September 2008). "Gabriel 'Barrabás' Gómez dejó deser el técnico del Atlético Nacional" (http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-4494435) (in Spanish). El Tiempo.

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^ Colombia - Record International Players (http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/col-recintlp.html); at RSSSF

2.

^ Gomez leaves team (http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-26/sports/sp-8781_1_gabriel-gomez); Los Angeles Times, 26 June 1994

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^ Death threats reappear for Colombian team (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sport4.


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/football/96337.stm); BBC News, 19 May 1998

External links

Gabriel Jaime Gómez Jaramillo (http://www.national-football-teams.com/player/21970.html) at National-Football-Teams.comGabriel Jaime Gómez Jaramillo (http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=168124/) – FIFA competition record

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