Quiarol Lenín Arzú Flores (born 3 March 1985) is a Honduran

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

defender who currently plays for Deportivo Guastatoya in the

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala The Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala (National Football League of Guatemala), officially known as the Liga Guate Banrural for sponsorship reasons, formerly known as Liga'' ''Mayor A (Major League A) is a professional football division in Guat ...

Club career

Arzú began his professional career with Liga Nacional de Honduras side Platense in 2005. He has established himself as one of the top central defenders in Honduras. In February 2009, he went on trial to the Chinese side

Beijing Guoan Beijing Guoan Football Club (), known in AFC competitions as Beijing FC, is a Chinese professional football club based in Beijing, that competes in . Beijing Guoan plays its home matches at the Workers' Stadium, located within Chaoyang Distr ...

alongside his compatriot Hendry Córdova, but the club decided not to sign them. Arzú went on trial with D.C. United in early 2010 in hopes of securing a contract with the

Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanc ...

club. He joined Marathón in summer 2011. Arzú transferred to

China League One The Chinese Football League 1 (), also known as China League One or Chinese Jia League (), is the second level of professional football in China, under the Chinese Super League. The league is under the auspices of the Chinese Football Association ...

side

Hubei China-Kyle Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard F.C. ( zh, s=新疆天山雪豹, t=新疆天山雪豹, p=Xīnjiāng Tiānshān Xuěbào, , w, iː, ɡ, ər=شىنجاڭ قار لەيلىسى) is a defunct professional Chinese football club that participated in the Chin ...

in February 2013. He was released in June 2013.

International career

Arzú was part of the U-23

Honduras national football team The Honduras national football team () represents Honduras in men's international football. The team is governed by the Federación de Fútbol de Honduras (). They are nicknamed ''Los Catrachos'', ''La Bicolor,'' or ''La H''. Honduras has qu ...

which was coached by Colombian trainer Alexis Mendoza and later by Gilberto Yearwood. The U-23

was CONCACAF champions and qualified for the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

. Arzú made his senior debut for

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

in an October 2010

friendly match An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, scrimmage, demonstration, training match, pre-season game, warmup match, or preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sport, sporting event whose prize money and impact on th ...

against

Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

and has, as of July 2012, earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals.

References

External links

* 1985 births Living people Footballers from Atlántida Department Men's association football defenders Honduran men's footballers 21st-century Honduran sportsmen Honduras men's international footballers Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Honduras Platense F.C. players C.D. Marathón players Juticalpa F.C. players Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players China League One players Expatriate men's footballers in China {{Honduras-footy-bio-stub