Sergio Martínez Maldonado

Sergio Martínez Maldonado (born October 28, 1965 in Mexico City ) is a retired Mexican football player on the position of defender .

career

Martínez was under contract with Club León during the 1990s . He made his debut in the Mexican Primera División on September 15, 1991 in a home game against Santos Laguna , which ended 1-1. It was also the first day of the 1991/92 season, at the end of which the Esmeraldas won their first championship title after 36 years and their fifth.

Martínez scored his first goal in the top Mexican division on September 20, 1992 in a home game against Club Universidad de Guadalajara , in which he scored the decisive goal to make it 1-0 in the 38th minute with a penalty . After he had scored a penalty goal in the following home game against Puebla FC (2-1), he was successful for the first time on March 14, 1993 in the home game against CF Monterrey (3-2) with a field goal that he had scored with a header . The 1992/93 season was the only one in which Martínez scored more than one goal. In the next few years he was successful at most once per season.

Martínez played his last game for Club León on April 19, 2000 at Tecos de la UAG , which was lost 2-0 by two penalties from Uruguayan Sebastián Abreu . In total, Martínez had completed 187 first division appearances for Club León in nine years, scoring six goals.

After his active career, Martínez began working as a coach and worked from 2011 to 2014 as an assistant coach at his former club, with which he returned to the top league in the 2011/12 season after ten years of abstinence and in the 2013 season / 14 about the sixth and seventh championship titles in the history of the Esmeraldas .

successes

• Mexican champion : 1991/92

Web links

• Player profile at Medio Tiempo (spanish)
• Trainer profile at Liga MX (Spanish)