Léider Preciado

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Preciado and the second or maternal family name is Guerrero.

Léider Preciado

Personal information
Full name	Léider Calimenio Preciado Guerrero
Date of birth	(1977-02-26) February 26, 1977
Place of birth	Tumaco, Nariño, Colombia
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995–1996	El Cóndor
1996–1997	Cúcuta Deportivo
1998	Santa Fe
1998–1999	Racing Santander
1999–2000	Toledo
2000–2001	Racing Santander
2001	Santa Fe
2002	Once Caldas
2002–2003	Deportivo Cali
2004	Santa Fe
2004–2005	Al Shabab
2005–2008	Santa Fe
2008	Deportivo Quito
2010	Deportes Quindío
2011–2012	Santa Fe
International career
1998–2006	Colombia	11	(4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Léider Calimenio Preciado Guerrero (born 26 February 1977 in Tumaco) is a retired Colombian football striker, who currently manages minor league teams (lower divisions) for Independiente Santa Fe.

Club career

He has played for Independiente Santa Fe, Once Caldas, Racing Santander (Spain), CD Toledo (Spain), Deportivo Cali and Al Shabab (Saudi Arabia) as well as for one of the most popular clubs from Ecuador, Sociedad Deportivo Quito. He was part of their 2008 championship team.

Preciado is one of the most important Colombian strikers; he has scored 108 goals for Independiente Santa Fe, 3 of them at the Copa libertadores de América in 2006, and more than 160 goals in his entire career. He was the top scorer of the second half of the Colombian Championship (Torneo Finalización) in 2003 and 2004.

On April 26, 2008, Preciado became one of the 3 leading scorers, besides Miguel Ángel Converti and Alfredo Castillo, in the history of the Bogotá Derby (Independiente Santa Fe vs Club Deportivo Los Millonarios), after scoring in Santa Fe's 2-0 victory over Millonarios. Preciado has 15 goals in this Derby, all of them with Santa Fe.

International career

He played for the Colombia national football team and was a participant in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where he scored one goal against the Tunisia national football team.