Oswaldo Sánchez

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Oswaldo Sánchez

Personal information
Full name	Oswaldo Javier Sánchez Ibarra
Date of birth	September 21, 1973 (1973-09-21) (age 36)
Place of birth	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Height	1.84 m (6 ft +1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Santos Laguna
Number	1
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps (Gls)†
1993–1996	Atlas	0081 00(0)
1996–1999	Club América	0076 00(0)
1999–2006	Guadalajara	0272 00(2)
2007–	Santos Laguna	0097 00(0)
National team‡
1993	Mexico U-20	0004 00(0)
1996-	Mexico	0099 00(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of March 12, 2009. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of March 12, 2009

Oswaldo Javier Sánchez Ibarra (born September 21, 1973 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is a Mexican footballer. He plays as a goalkeeper and currently plays for Santos Laguna in the Mexican Primera Division, where he is also the team captain. He has 99 caps for Mexico.

[edit] Club career

[edit] Early career

Oswaldo Sanchez debuted with F.C. Atlas A.C. at the age of 20 on October 30, 1993 against CD Veracruz where the teams tied the game at 1–1. He debuted by entering as a sub when the goalkeeper injured himself in a strong accidental play. Two years after his debut, he was a starter on the team and led Atlas to the Quarterfinals where they were eliminated by CD Veracruz. In the summer of 1996, Sánchez was transferred to Club América. Sánchez first season with América was a failure, as the club did not make it to playoffs and lost the Mexican El Clásico against Chivas with an incredible score of 5-0. The following season, Sánchez was benched for the older and more experienced goalkeeper Hugo Pineda. Sánchez only played three out of 19 games, including the quarterfinals where América was eliminated by Monarcas Morelia. The following season, Sánchez went back into the starting line-up and led América to a disappointing elimination in the semifinals against Club Leon. His last three seasons with the club were stable, though the team managed to reach the semifinals once again, only to get eliminated. In the summer of 1999, Sánchez left América for Chivas de Guadalajara.

[edit] Chivas de Guadalajara

At Chivas de Guadalajara, Sánchez established himself as a mainstay in the team, and eventually as the team's captain. Since 1999, he helped the team to the playoffs seven times, including one wild card, and the team was only eliminated three times out of eleven seasons. Throughout his career at Guadalajara, he has stayed the preferred goalkeeper in the team under 10 different coaches. Despite the team's relative success during Sánchez's time at Guadalajara, the club didn't win a title until December 10, 2006 when they defeated Toluca 3-2 in the aggregate. Oswaldo hoisted the championship trophy for the first time in his entire career.

Sánchez scored a goal in the 2000 Copa Merconorte match against Club Deportivo El Nacional of Ecuador.^[1]

[edit] Santos Laguna

In 2007 he signed a contract onto Santos Laguna and he has played against his ex-team and ex-team members Chivas de Guadalajara in a 3-2 loss. With Oswaldo Sanchez, Santos managed to stay in Primera Division and were not relegated to Primera A. Also, in Oswaldo's first season with Santos, he led them to the Quarterfinals of the Clausura 2007 tournament. However, this was accompanied by many injuries. In the Apertura 2007 he led Santos Laguna to win 5 games in a row until he was injured again and would missed the rest of the season.

In Clausura 2008, he started a bit rusty still recovering from his injury but has recovered, and has led Santos again to become one of the best teams in all of Mexico, being second after Chivas in the Clausura 2008 tournament.

In his return to Estadio Jalisco during the Clausura 2008 season to face Chivas de Guadalajara, he was strongly booed by the Guadalajara (Chivas) fans, whom they only reproached to have left the team by money. They threw false money to him (with his printed face), took placards with the writing of which he was no longer "San Oswaldo." Throughout the match, fans sang that he was a traitor. He won his 2nd Championship with Santos Laguna beating Cruz Azul 3-2 on aggregate.

[edit] International career

Sánchez played for the Mexican Youth National team in 1993's international FIFA World Youth Championship in Australia Coached by Juan de Dios Castillo. Sánchez has also constantly been called up to play for the Mexican national team since his debut in 1996, against Bolivia. He has been part of three FIFA World Cups, in France 1998, Argentine Coach Ricardo la Volpe called up Sánchez once again on April 2, 2006, to be the starting goalkeeper for the Mexican National Team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. While Oswaldo was preparing for the 2006 World Cup, his father died of a heart attack on June 7, aged 56. Oswaldo flew home to Guadalajara, but he returned to Germany in time for the team's first game against Iran, which they won by a score of 3-1.^[2].

In 2007, he was called up once again by new coach Hugo Sanchez to play for Mexico in the Gold Cup and Copa América 2007

Oswaldo was selected to represent Mexico in recent friendlies against Ghana and China, his 1st callups since the Copa América 2007.

[edit] Chicago arrest incident

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On June 8, 2008, the Mexico national football team defeated Peru at Chicago's Soldier Field with a score of 4–0 favoring Mexico. But on the early morning of June 9, Sánchez was arrested at a hotel room due to complaints of other hotel guests that there was loud partying, talking and profanity. At that time he was accompanied by other teammates but none were taken. Sánchez was taken into custody for questioning for about two hours but was then released with a $1,000 fine. Upon his arrival back to Mexico he told the media that the incident was not that much of a deal.

[edit] Honours

[edit] Chivas

• Primera División de México Apertura: 2006

[edit] Santos Laguna

• Primera Division de Mexico Clausura: 2008

[edit] International

• CONCACAF Gold Cup: 1996, 2003

[edit] Individual

• CONCACAF Gold Cup Best Goalkeeper: 2003
• Primera Division de Mexico Apertura Best Goalkeeper: 2002, 2005
• Primera Division de Mexico Clausura Best Goalkeeper: 2003

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Football Database.com provides Oswaldo Sánchez's profile and stats
• Oswaldo Sánchez stats at MedioTiempo.com (Spanish)
• website

Mexico squads v • d • e Mexico squad – 1996 Summer Olympics 1 O.Sánchez • 2 Suárez • 3 Oteo • 4 Villa • 5 Davino • 6 Lara • 7 Torres • 8 Sol • 9 Campos • 10 García • 11 Blanco • 12 F.Sánchez • 13 Pardo • 14 Alvarado • 15 Arellano • 16 Alfaro • 17 Palencia • 18 Abundis • Coach: de los Cobos v • d • e Mexico squad – 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup 1 Sánchez • 2 Suárez • 3 de Anda • 4 Villa • 5 Davino • 6 Lara • 7 Ramírez • 8 Luna • 9 Chávez • 10 García • 11 Blanco • 12 Pérez • 13 Pardo • 14 Terrazas • 15 Hernández • 16 López • 17 Palencia • 18 Carmona • 19 Zárate • 20 Abundis • Coach: Lapuente v • d • e Mexico squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup 1 Campos • 2 Suárez • 3 J. Sánchez • 4 Villa • 5 Davino • 6 Bernal • 7 Ramírez • 8 García Aspe • 9 Peláez • 10 García • 11 Blanco • 12 O. Sánchez • 13 Pardo • 14 Lara • 15 Hernández • 16 Terrazas • 17 Palencia • 18 Carmona • 19 Luna • 20 Ordiales • 21 Arellano • 22 Pérez • Coach: Lapuente v • d • e Mexico squad – 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup 1 Sánchez • 2 Suárez • 3 Beltrán • 4 Oteo • 5 Davino • 6 M. Ruiz • 7 Rangel • 8 Rodríguez • 9 Abundis • 10 Borgetti • 11 Osorno • 12 Cabuto • 13 Pardo • 14 Villa • 15 de Nigris • 16 Coyote • 17 Valdez • 18 Victorino • 19 Reyes • 20 V. Ruiz • 21 Pérez • 22 Chávez • 23 Dautt • Coach: Meza v • d • e Mexico squad – Copa América 2001 Runners-up 1 Sánchez • 2 A. Rodríguez • 3 H. Morales • 4 Márquez • 5 Vidrio • 6 Torrado • 7 Valdez • 8 García Aspe • 9 Borgetti • 10 Victorino • 11 Osorno • 12 Pérez • 13 Mercado • 14 De Nigris • 15 Juan Pablo Rodríguez • 16 Reyes • 17 Hierro • 18 J. Rodríguez • 19 Zepeda • 20 C. Morales • 21 Arellano • 22 Martínez • Coach: Aguirre v • d • e Mexico squad – 2002 FIFA World Cup 1 Pérez • 2 de Anda • 3 García • 4 Márquez • 5 Vidrio • 6 Torrado • 7 Morales • 8 García Aspe • 9 Borgetti • 10 Blanco • 11 Luna • 12 Sánchez • 13 Mercado • 14 Villa • 15 Hernández • 16 Carmona • 17 Palencia • 18 J. Rodríguez • 19 Caballero • 20 Brown • 21 Arellano • 22 A. Rodríguez • 23 Campos • Coach: Aguirre v • d • e Mexico squad – 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup Winners (4th Title) 1 Sánchez • 2 Salazar • 3 Briceño • 4 Márquez • 5 Osorio • 6 Valdez • 7 Bravo • 8 Pardo • 9 Borgetti • 10 Zepeda • 11 Osorno • 12 O.Pérez • 14 L.Pérez • 15 Rodríguez • 16 Méndez • 18 Carmona • 20 García • 21 Arellano • Coach: Lavolpe v • d • e Mexico squad – Copa América 2004 1 Sánchez • 2 Suárez • 3 Briceño • 4 Márquez • 5 Davino • 6 Torrado • 7 Valdez • 8 Pardo • 9 Borgetti • 10 Bautista • 11 Osorno • 12 Pérez • 13 Muñoz • 14 Morales • 15 Oteo • 16 Méndez • 17 Palencia • 18 Carmona • 19 Lozano • 20 Osorio • 21 Arellano • 22 Altamirano • Coach: Lavolpe v • d • e Mexico squad – 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup Fourth Place 1 Sánchez • 2 Galindo • 3 Salcido • 4 Márquez • 5 Osorio • 6 Torrado • 7 Sinha • 8 Pardo • 9 Borgetti • 10 Bravo • 11 Morales • 12 Muñoz • 13 Márquez Lugo • 14 Pineda • 15 Sánchez Guerrero • 16 Méndez • 17 Fonseca • 18 Carmona • 19 Medina • 20 Rodríguez • 21 Lozano • 22 Pérez • 23 Corona • Coach: Lavolpe v • d • e Mexico squad – 2006 FIFA World Cup 1 Sánchez • 2 Suárez • 3 Salcido • 4 Márquez • 5 Osorio • 6 Torrado • 7 Sinha • 8 Pardo • 9 Borgetti • 10 Franco • 11 Morales • 12 Corona • 13 Ochoa • 14 Pineda • 15 Castro • 16 Méndez • 17 Fonseca • 18 Guardado • 19 Bravo • 20 García • 21 Arellano • 22 Rodríguez • 23 Pérez • Coach: Lavolpe v • d • e Mexico squad – 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup Runners-up 1 Sánchez • 2 Magallón • 3 Salcido • 4 Márquez • 5 Osorio • 6 Torrado • 7 Medina • 8 Pardo • 9 Borgetti • 10 Blanco • 11 Morales • 12 Corona • 13 Ochoa • 14 Pinto • 15 Castro • 16 Lozano • 17 Fonseca • 18 Guardado • 19 Bravo • 20 Arce • 21 Castillo • 22 Rodríguez • 23 Bautista • Coach: Hugo Sánchez v • d • e Mexico squad – Copa América 2007 Third Place 1 Sánchez • 2 Magallón • 3 Pinto • 4 Márquez • 5 I. Castro • 6 Torrado • 7 Medina • 8 Correa • 9 Landín • 10 Blanco • 11 Morales • 12 Cacho • 13 Ochoa • 14 Pineda • 15 J. Castro • 16 Lozano • 17 Bautista • 18 Guardado • 19 Bravo • 20 Arce • 21 Castillo • 22 Rodríguez • Coach: Hugo Sánchez