Arnold Peralta first played professionally in 2008 with LINA club Vida. He began playing internationally for Honduras with their U-20 team in 2009, captaining them at the FIFA World Youth Championship. He first played as a senior for Honduras in 2011 and made 26 international appearances for them. Peralta played for the Scottish club Rangers, starting in June 2013, but in 2015 moved to Olimpia in Honduras. He played 23 matches with Honduras but his career was cut short when he was shot and killed at a shopping mall in La Ceiba, Honduras, on 10 December 2015