[4] Shortly after he was born, his family returned to the Canary Islands, and there, in Tenerife, and more specifically in La Laguna, Arencibia began his football career.
He also played matches in Las Palmas against Liverpool, in Madrid against Atlético, in Las Corts against FC Barcelona; and at Tenerife, he starred in several memorable friendly matches at the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Stadium against rivals such as Madrid FC and Donosti in 1932, both of these peninsular teams received resounding defeats from the blue and white team led by Arencibia.
[4] He quickly became a regular starter in the following days, playing 9 games and scoring 5 goals that season,[1] but football in Spain was then suspended by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936.
After a three-year break in the football competition, Arencibi joined the ranks of Atlético Aviación, where under coach Ricardo Zamora, and together with Pruden, Paco Campos, and Vázquez, he played a crucial role in helping the club win the first two League titles in the Colchoneros history in 1939–40 and 1940–41.
[4] Arencibia earned his only international cap for Spanish team on 12 April 1942,[3] at the age of 29, in a friendly match against Nazi Germany held in Berlin, which ended in a 1–1 draw.