Francisco Buyo

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Francisco Buyo
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Personnel
Surname Francisco Buyo Sánchez
birthday January 13, 1958
place of birth Betanzos ,  Spain
size 1.79 m
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1972-1973 Ural CF
1973-1975 Betanzos CF
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1975-1976 RCD Mallorca 16 (0)
1976-1980 Deportivo La Coruña 122 (0)
1978-1979 →  SD Huesca  (loan)
1980-1986 Sevilla FC 199 (0)
1986-1997 real Madrid 343 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1980 Spain U-21 3 (0)
1983-1992 Spain 7 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Francisco "Paco" Buyo Sánchez (born January 13, 1958 in Betanzos ) is a former Spanish football player .

Career as a player

society

At fourteen Buyo started as a football player at Ural CF . He played in the position of goalkeeper and right wing and was unbeaten both as a goalkeeper and the team's top scorer at the end of the season. He launched his professional career in 1975 at RCD Mallorca in the Segunda División . After a season he returned to his homeland Galicia back to Deportivo La Coruña . In the 1978/79 season he was loaned to SD Huesca because he had to do military service in neighboring Jaca . In 1980 he moved to Sevilla FC , where he was the goalkeeper from the start and made his debut in the Primera División . Due to the good performance with the Andalusians , he was signed by Real Madrid in 1986 to replace their aging goalkeeper. He stayed with the Merengues for eleven years and played with the Quinta del Buitre , Fernando Redondo , Iván Zamorano and Raúl , among others . His time with the Royal was highly successful in the national competitions with six championship titles and two cup wins, but he was denied the title in the international competitions. Twice during his sporting career he won the Trofeo Zamora , the award for the best goalkeeper in the Primera División . Between December 3, 1994 and February 12, 1995, he remained unbeaten for over 709 minutes, which is the fifth-longest series of all time in a Spanish league. In 1997 he finally ended his career and, with 542 appearances in the Primera División , is third in the all-time ranking.

National team

During his time at Deportivo La Coruña , he was called up for the first time by Spain's U21 team in 1980 for the football tournament of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow . For the actual national team , he was called up for the last match in qualifying for the European Championship in 1984 and was part of the team that recorded a historic 12-1 victory over Malta on December 21, 1983. Historically, as Spain was forced to win by at least eleven hits if they wanted to qualify for the European Championship in 1984 , and they did so. Buyo was also part of the squad that was runner-up at the 1984 European Championship.

successes

After the career

After his football career, Buyo founded a company specializing in the laying of artificial turf . He was also active in telecommunications as a football commentator for the television channels Al Jazeera and TVE . By mid-2009 he also had his own column El Análisis de la Jornada de Liga in the Spanish daily El País . When time allows, he has been playing with the veteran Real Madrid team in the indoor soccer championship since 2008 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paco Buyo: El Análisis de la Jornada de Liga . In: El País , June 1, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2010. (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Buyo, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buyo Sánchez, Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Betanzos , Spain