Hugo Sánchez

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Hugo Sánchez
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Hugo Sánchez 2008
Personnel
Surname Hugo Sánchez Marquez
birthday July 11, 1958
place of birth Mexico City ,  Mexico
size 175 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1972-1975 UNAM Pumas
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1976-1981 UNAM Pumas 200 0(99)
1979-1980 →  San Diego Sockers  (loan) 32 0(26)
1981-1985 Atlético Madrid 111 0(54)
1985-1992 real Madrid 207 (164)
1992-1993 Club America 29 0(11)
1993-1994 Rayo Vallecano 29 0(16)
1994-1995 CF Atlante 31 0(13)
1995-1996 FC Linz 20 00(6)
1996 Dallas Burn 23 00(6)
1997 Atlético Celaya 12 00(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1977-1998 Mexico 58 0(29)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2000 Mexico
2000-2005 UNAM Pumas
2006 Club Necaxa
2006-2008 Mexico
2008 Mexico U-23
2008-2009 UD Almería
1 Only league games are given.

Hugo Sánchez Marquez (born July 11, 1958 in Mexico City ) is a former Mexican soccer player and current coach . He is considered one of the best Mexican soccer players in history.

Club career

Hugo Sánchez, who grew up in Mexico City in a sports-loving family, was appointed to the Mexican junior team at the age of 14. He began his club career in the youth division of UNAM Pumas , the football club of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM for short). In 1976 he moved up to the professional team, where he celebrated the first national championship title in the club's history just a year later. In the early 1980s the Pumas celebrated their greatest successes: In 1980 and 1981 the university team from Mexico City won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup , in which the best club teams from North and Central America compete against each other. In 1981 the team also secured the Copa Interamericana by defeating South America's champion Nacional Montevideo and again won the Mexican championship. With these titles, Sánchez in particular made a name for himself not only with his numerous goals and thus also made himself interesting for top European teams.

At the end of 1981 Sánchez, who shone as a brilliant technician as well as a cold-blooded goalscorer, left Mexico and moved to Spain to the top club Atlético Madrid . In 1985 he was the top scorer there with 19 goals before he decided to move to local rivals Real Madrid .

In the seven years at Real Madrid, Sánchez celebrated the greatest successes of his career. The striker, who described himself as an artist on the football field, secured the Spanish top scorer four times between 1986 and 1990 . He won the Spanish championship five times in a row (1986 to 1990), won the Copa del Rey twice (1985 and 1989) and won the 1986 UEFA Cup . Sánchez was one of the best and most dangerous strikers of the 1980s and harmonized perfectly with his strike partners Jorge Valdano and Emilio Butragueño . Despite his sporting success, the Mexican was not without controversy in the Spanish capital because he showed a pronounced tendency towards self-expression. Sánchez, whose repertoire often included hidden fouls and swallows , was also not very popular with the opponents .

After he had secured the golden shoe as the best European goalscorer with 38 goals for Real in 1990, his career went downhill from 1991. At the beginning of the year he suffered a serious knee injury and was unable to play for twelve months. When the health problems were resolved, the ball artist was given a two-month internal ban for insubordination. As a result, Sánchez separated from Real in 1992 and joined the first division club América in his home country . The 1.74 m tall star striker also had problems with his new club because of his escapades, so he returned to Spain in the summer of 1993 and, now 35, joined the first division club Rayo Vallecano .

After the 1994 World Cup , he returned to Mexico and signed a contract with CF Atlante . But it didn't last long here either and so the 37-year-old moved to the Austrian second division club FC Linz in September 1995 . After further short engagements with Dallas Burn in Major League Soccer and Atlético Celaya , he ended his career in 1997.

Career in the national team

Hugo Sánchez (1988)

In 1977, at the age of 19, he played for the first time for the Mexican national football team , which qualified for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina . In qualifying, Sanchez contributed four goals and Mexico prevailed with 20: 5 goals and five wins in five games. At the World Cup finals, Sánchez was left winger in all three Mexican games, but the opponents were too strong. There were three defeats against world champions Germany, third place in the World Cup, Poland and Tunisia, and they went home with 2:12 goals after the preliminary round.

The most important appearance in his home country at the 1986 World Cup in his own country ended in the quarter-finals. There, the selection of the host country was defeated by the Germans on penalties. Sánchez remained in four missions with only one hit far below his possibilities, which is why the Mexican public was disappointed; one had hoped for more from the striker and his team. Sánchez then announced his resignation from the national team.

In March 1993, Sánchez returned to the national team after a seven-year hiatus. The following year he took part in his third and last World Cup in the USA . Here he only came on one mission; he had passed his zenith and now finally ended his career in the national team. Only in the friendly game on March 18, 1998 against Paraguay (1: 1) did he play again, which was a "farewell game" for him.

For the Mexican national soccer team , he completed 58 games and scored 29 goals. Hugo Sánchez often enjoyed a spectacular handstand rollover after goals.

Career as a coach

Between November 2006 and March 31, 2008 he was the coach of the Mexican national team before he was fired for failure. In December 2008 he took over the coaching post at UD Almería . Almost exactly one year later, on December 21, 2009, he was released there for poor performance.

successes

UNAM Pumas

Atlético Madrid

real Madrid

Club America

National team

Personally

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Sánchez in the FEMEXFUT database (Spanish)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sánchez, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sánchez Marquez, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city