Ignacio Arce

Ignacio Arce came through at Unión de Santa Fe, part of the squad that won promotion to the Primera División in 2011, but a single league appearance that season told its own story: the path forward ran through other clubs' dressing rooms. Loan after loan followed — Deportivo Merlo, Atlético Paraná, Crucero del Norte, San Martín de Tucumán, a spell at Instituto — and it was in that unglamorous run of borrowed shirts that Arce actually built a career. He was the starting goalkeeper when Atlético Paraná reached the Primera B Nacional in 2014, and again when San Martín de Tucumán stepped up to the Superliga Argentina in 2018.

One night stands out from the rest: in November 2019, against Instituto, the club he had just left on loan, Arce came up for a stoppage-time equaliser and scored it himself, his first senior goal.

His career then moved abroad and around, to Unión La Calera in Chile and briefly to Platense, before he joined Deportivo Riestra in the middle of 2023. Arce was first-choice goalkeeper as Riestra won promotion to the Primera División that year, and the club rewarded him with a contract renewal running through two more seasons. He has kept his place as number one since, with a run of clean sheets in the 2025 campaign that has made him one of the more reliable figures in Riestra's side.

At youth level, Arce was capped once by Argentina's under-17s, featuring at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Nigeria against the host nation.