Iván Kaviedes Toaquiza

Iván Kaviedes is a name that stirs something in any football fan who remembers Ecuador's rise. An Ecuadorian forward born in 1977 in Santo Domingo, he was the mercurial South American striker archetype: dazzling on his day, maddeningly inconsistent on others. That very unpredictability is what I find endearing. He was never the flawless ace; he was the player who left you holding your breath, capable of magic and of vanishing in the same match. I think footballers like him, remembered for romance and explosive flashes rather than steady numbers, are exactly the ones worth keeping in the conversation.

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Name (English)

Iván Kaviedes Toaquiza

Name (Japanese)

イバン・カビエデス

Reading

いばん・かびえです

Born

October 24, 1977 (age 49)

Origin

Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province, Ecuador

Height

182 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

• Official sitehttp://www.ivankaviedes.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n%20Kaviedes
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%93%E3%82%A8%E3%83%87%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312418

Tags

• 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.