Jaime Sánchez Fernández

Jaime Sánchez Fernández

Jaime Sánchez Fernández (born March 20, 1973 in Madrid ) is a former Spanish football player .

Jaime Sánchez Fernández first played for Real Madrid's second team from 1994 to 1996 , before playing a season for Racing de Santander in the Primera División in 1996/97 . In 1997 he returned to Madrid and played for Real's first team until 1999. His greatest sporting success was winning the Champions League in 1998 with Real Madrid. In the 1-0 win in the final against Juventus Turin he was substituted on in the 82nd minute. In 1999 he moved to Deportivo La Coruña , with whom he became Spanish champions in 2000. In 2001/2002 I made a detour to CD Tenerife .

In 2002, after the fourth match day of the 2002/2003 season , Jaime moved from Deportivo's Spanish Primera División on loan to Bundesliga promoted Hannover 96 . Hannover started the season with four defeats under coach Ralf Rangnick and signed five players shortly before the end of the transfer, including Jaime's Spanish compatriots Fernando Sánchez Cipitria and José Manuel Colmenero , who also moved from La Coruña to Lower Saxony. The transfer of a former Champions League winner to Hanover came as a surprise and was thanks to the good contacts made by the sports director Ricardo Moar , who himself had come to Hanover from Deportivo in July 2002. Jaime was the only one from the Spanish trio who could prevail in the Reds and quickly became a crowd favorite. At the end of the season, in which Hanover managed to stay up on the penultimate match day and Jaime made 22 Bundesliga games, he had to return to Spain.

In the first half of the 2003/2004 season , however, he was not used at Deportivo. Since Hannover 96 was looking for reinforcements in midfield again during the winter break, it was possible to agree with La Coruña at the end of January 2004 on a new loan until the end of the season. Jaime scored his only Bundesliga goal in the first game after his return (in a 3-2 win against Hamburger SV ). Overall, however, he only made 10 more games for Hannover in the second half of the season. After the end of the season he had to return to Spain.

From the 2004/2005 season he first played in the Primera División for Albacete Balompié , then until mid-2006 for Racing Club de Ferrol in the Spanish Segunda División . In the meantime he has ended his active career and is earning the Spanish PE teacher diploma in his adopted home A Coruña .