Johnny Herrera

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Johnny Herrera
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Personnel
Surname Johnny Cristián Herrera Muñoz
birthday May 9, 1981
place of birth Angol ,  Chile
size 184 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
1995-1999 CF Universidad de Chile
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2005 CF Universidad de Chile 115 (0)
2006-2007 Corinthians São Paulo 9 (0)
2007-2008 CD Everton 55 (0)
2008-2010 Audax Italiano 81 (0)
2011– CF Universidad de Chile 98 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2002– Chile 8 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2013/14

2 As of June 26, 2014

Johnny Cristián Herrera Muñoz (born May 9, 1981 in Angol ) is a Chilean football goalkeeper . He plays for CF Universidad de Chile .

Career

society

Johnny Herrera started playing football at the age of 14 at the capital club CF Universidad de Chile and in 1999 switched from youth to the first team. In the Primera División he was used twice in the first year and was champion with the club. The following year Universidad defended the title and won the national cup ; Herrera was involved as a substitute goalkeeper. It was not used more often until 2001. His breakthrough came in 2004 when he became a regular goalkeeper and won the third league title with the club by winning the Apertura .

After another year in the Chilean capital, he received the offer to switch to the Brazilian champions Corinthians São Paulo in early 2006 . However, he couldn't prevail there. After there had been turbulence in the club, he joined the CD Everton from Viña del Mar in March 2007 . After he had helped prevent relegation in the first year there as a regular goalkeeper, he surprisingly became a club in the Apertura 2008 champions. Despite the success, Herrera switched to Clausura back in the capital to Audax Italiano , with whom he stayed for the next two and a half years.

For the 2011 season he went back to his youth club Universidad de Chile. A short time later, he was voted the best goalkeeper in Chile and South America by journalists. At the same time, this was the most successful period for Universidad. By winning the Copa Sudamericana , the South American equivalent of the UEFA Europa League , the team won the first international title in the club's history. In addition, they won three championships in a row with Apertura and Clausura in 2011 and Apertura in 2012 and were cup winners in 2013.

National team

Herrera was appointed to the Chilean selections in his youth. In 2000 he was the third goalkeeper at the Olympic Games in Sydney , in which Chile was third. The following year he took part in the U-20 World Cup in Argentina. When he established himself in the Primera División in 2002 , he was also set up in the Chilean senior team . It remained in a mission on April 17, 2002 against Turkey . When he became a regular goalkeeper at Universidad de Chile, he did not get beyond another engagement in 2005. Even after the successes and after Herrera's election as the best goalkeeper in Chile and South America, it was not enough to return.

At the end of 2012, the then national coach Claudio Borghi was dismissed and Herrera's old club coach Jorge Sampaoli took over the post. Herrera was nominated for the first game of the new calendar year and he was also in the squad in the following games and played in three friendly matches, one of them against record world champions Brazil . In the run-up to the 2014 World Cup , he was also tested several times and was also in the goal of the Chileans in the narrow 1-0 defeat in the preparation game in Germany in March 2014 . After a suspended sentence shortly before the nomination period, he was accepted into the squad for the 2014 World Cup , but was not used as a substitute goalkeeper.

Controversy

Herrera caused a car accident in Santiago de Chile in December 2009 , in which a student was killed. He was sentenced to 41 days in prison and two years' driving license suspended for drinking alcohol in traffic. In 2012 he was sentenced to 150 days probation for driving alcohol. An incident in December 2013 earned him another suspended sentence; he was still able to take part in the 2014 World Cup.

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Gaber: Johnny Herrera: The Unlearnable. In: spox.com. Perform Media Deutschland GmbH, June 13, 2014, accessed on August 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Johnny Herrera in the FIFA database , accessed on June 26, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Herrera, Johnny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herrera Muñoz, Johnny Cristián (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Angol , Chile