Ariel Ortega
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Ortega in a River Plate shirt in 2013
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Arnaldo Ariel Ortega | ||
| Date of birth | 4 March 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Ledesma, Jujuy, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder / Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1990 | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1996 | River Plate | 134 | (30) |
| 1997–1998 | Valencia | 29 | (9) |
| 1998–1999 | Sampdoria | 27 | (8) |
| 1999–2000 | Parma | 18 | (3) |
| 2000–2002 | River Plate | 56 | (23) |
| 2002–2003 | Fenerbahçe | 14 | (5) |
| 2004–2006 | Newell's Old Boys | 53 | (11) |
| 2006–2012 | River Plate | 82 | (12) |
| 2008–2009 | → Independiente (Riv) (loan) | 25 | (4) |
| 2011 | → All Boys (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | → Def. Belgrano (loan) | 27 | (4) |
| Total | 447 | (109) | |
| National team | |||
| 1993–2010 | Argentina | 87 | (16) |
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ariel Arnaldo Ortega (born 4 March 1974) is a retired Argentine footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. His nickname is "El Burrito" ("The Little Donkey"), thus he is called "Burrito Ortega".
Ariel Ortega first played for Club Atlético River Plate on 14 December 1991 and until 1996 and returned in 2000–02, 2006–08 and 2009–11. Ortega's other clubs include Fenerbahçe, Parma, Sampdoria, Valencia, and Newell's Old Boys. A former Argentina international, Ortega played for his country in the 1994, 1998, and 2002 World Cups. He was also a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Ortega began his professional football career in 1991 with Argentine club River Plate. With the club, he won the Primera División in 1991, 1993, 1994 and 1996, as well as the Copa Libertadores in 1996. He lost out on the 1996 Intercontinental Cup final to Juventus.
Ortega left Argentina in 1996. He played 1½ seasons for Valencia CF before being signed by Sampdoria in 1998 for 23 billion Italian lire (£8 million), replacing Juan Sebastián Verón. After the club was relegated to Serie B, Ortega joined Parma AC, rejoining national and former club team-mate Hernán Crespo, replacing Verón again who left for Lazio. Parma paid Sampdoria 28 billion lire (£9.4 million). However, in the following season he returned to Argentina with River Plate, to compensate unpaid 12 billion lire transfer fees of Crespo. (The 10% of the transfer fees to Lazio) Claudio Husaín also joined the club. River Plate acquired 50% registration rights of Ortega for a reported 5.5 million dollars. While, in Parma AC annual filing to Italian government, Ortega was sold for 11 billion lire.
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