Ian Bayona Araneta (born March 2, 1982) is a Filipino former

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who plays as a

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who played for

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and

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. He is also a former member of the Philippines national team. While still in his home town of

Barotac Nuevo Barotac Nuevo, officially the Municipality of Barotac Nuevo (, ), is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 58,176 people. The town is officially known as the ''Football Cap ...

Iloilo Iloilo ( ; ), officially the Province of Iloilo (; ; ; ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital and largest city is Iloilo City, the regional center of Western Visayas and politically independen ...

, he was scouted by both the

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and the

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teams but eventually chose the Philippine Air Force where he would train and be on duty while also getting the chance to continue playing football. As a player of the Air Force football club, he is also enlisted in the

International career

Araneta made his international debut on 11 December 2002 in a

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against

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prior to the

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. He scored his first international goal six years after making his debut in a

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match against Laos. He scored the opening goal but the Philippines failed to win, losing 1–2.Valuable lifeline for Laos
"AseanFootball.org", ASEAN Football Federation, 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2010-10-13 On 12 October 2010, Araneta scored his first international hat trick against

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in the

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, which the Philippines eventually won 5–0. He ended up as the tournament's top scorer with four goals.

International goals

:''Scores and results list the Philippines' goal tally first.''

Honours

Club

;Philippine Air Force FC *

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

National team

Philippine Peace Cup The Philippine Peace Cup was a four-nation international football competition organized by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) which involves the national teams of the Philippines and three invitees. The inaugural edition took place in 2012, ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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: Third

Individual

* Long Teng Cup Golden Boot: 1 ::

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

References

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* * 1982 births Living people Footballers from Iloilo Philippine Air Force personnel Filipino men's footballers Men's association football forwards Philippines men's international footballers Philippine Air Force F.C. players Stallion Laguna F.C. players Visayan people 21st-century Filipino sportsmen {{Philippines-footy-bio-stub