Léider Preciado


Léider Calimenio Preciado Guerrero is a Colombian former professional football striker, who manages minor league teams for Independiente Santa Fe.

Club career

Preciado played for Independiente Santa Fe, Once Caldas, Racing Santander, CD Toledo, Deportivo Cali and Al Shabab 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 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 in 2003 and 2004.
On 26 April 2008, Preciado became one of the three leading scorers, besides Miguel Ángel Converti and Alfredo Castillo, in the history of the Bogotá Derby, after scoring in Santa Fe's 2–0 victory over Millonarios. Preciado had 15 goals in this Derby, all of them with Santa Fe.

International career

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