Juan Carlos Arce Justiniano (born 10 April 1985) is a retired Bolivian professional

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who played as a

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or winger. His last professional club was

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in the Bolivian first division.

Club career

Oriente Petrolero

Born in

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, Arce started his career at Bolivia's famous youth academy

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. In 2003 aged 18, Arce signed for

Bolivian Primera División The División de Fútbol Profesional is the top-flight professional football league in Bolivia. In 2017 it replaced the "Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano" (; ). Since 1950, a total of 16 clubs have been crowned champions of the Bolivian foot ...

club

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. In his debut season Arce played fifteen games scoring two goals and won the

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in the process. Following his debut season, Arce played forty four games in 2004 – cementing his position in the first team – scoring seven goals and helped the team to a

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finish in the

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. Arce played fifteen games, scoring just three during the

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opening start to the season. After less than one year after leaving the club, Arce returned and played two more season including both 2011 Bolivian Premera División and 2011–12 Bolivian Primera División. Arce scored six goals in his remaining seasons with the club playing only twenty three games. Arce played a total of 170 games for ''Albiverdes'' scoring 30 goals.

Brazil

In 2005, Arce played a total of thirty nine games scoring eight and helped the team

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its second

in three years. In 2006, after playing thirty four games for

– scoring four times – Arce was loaned out to Série B club Portuguesa, playing only in non-league fixtures. The following season (

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) in January 2007, Arce was loaned out again to Série A club

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. Arce played eighteen games for the ''Timão'' scoring just two goals. Despite having a good season with the Corinthians, Arce couldn't help the team avoid relegation, and with the arrival of a new manager he was removed from the squad. Arce also scored two more goals playing in the

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Following the start of the 2009 Bolivian Primera División, Arce was loaned out to Brazil for a third time joining

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champions, and Série A club

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for a sixth-month period with the option to require his rights. Playing fifteen games and scoring four goals, Sport Recife finished last and were relegated to Série B.

Asia

After multiple loans out to Brazil, Arce was loaned out to the

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club Al-Arabi for the 2007–08 season. However, he found the language and the way of life there difficult, despite managing to score 3 goals. Arce, once again was loaned out, this came after playing one season in

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. He joined

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for the remainder of the 2008 K League season, however, Arce played just ten games before leaving the club and returning to Bolivia. After a few months in his home country, he joined

of Brazil in 2009, making 15 appearances and scoring 4 goals.

Akhmat Grozny

In 2010, Arce joined

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side

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signing a three-year deal. After only twenty games with the side and finishing just above relegation, Arce left the club and returned to Bolivia.

Bolívar

In January 2012, Arce signed for

giants

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. Arce made his debut for the club in the

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. Coming on as substitute in the 63rd minute replacing

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in there 1–1 draw against

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an side Universidad Católica in

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. Arce scored his first goal for Bolívar in

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against

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scoring in the 89th minute after coming on as a substitute.

International career

Arce made his debut on 6 July 2004 in the

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against host nation

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in a 2–2 draw at the

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. Since his debut in 2004, Arce has been capped over 70 times for

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, scoring a total of 12 goals. Arce has competed at five

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tournaments (

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), and played through five World Cup qualifying campaigns (

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Career statistics

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References

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