Faryd Mondragón

Faryd Mondragón is a goalkeeper whose career almost reads like a love letter to longevity and to home. He started and ended at his hometown club Deportivo Cali, with two spells at Argentina's Independiente in between, which I find a fitting bookend for a player so tied to Colombian football. At 191 centimeters he had the frame you want between the posts, and his durability across so many years is genuinely impressive. I always respect goalkeepers who keep playing at a high level well into their later years, because the position rewards experience but punishes any drop in reflexes.

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Name (English)

Faryd Mondragón

Name (Japanese)

ファリド・モンドラゴン

Reading

ふぁりど・もんどらごん

Born

June 21, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia

Height

191 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

• Xhttps://x.com/FarydMondragon
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faryd%20Mondrag%C3%B3n
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B4%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352215

Tags

• Valle del Cauca Department
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.