Sergio Arias

Sergio Arias

Personal information
Full name	Sergio Javier Arias Delgado
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Chivas USA
Number	30
Youth career
2005–2006	Guadalajara
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–	Guadalajara	0	(0)
2007–2009	→ Dorados (loan)	36	(0)
2011	→ Chivas USA (loan)	0	(0)
International career‡
2005	Mexico U17	9	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:40, 13 March 2011 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:40, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Sergio Javier Arias Delgado (born February, 27 1988 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer, on loan from Guadalajara.

Club career

Arias has played in Chivas' youth division teams and began playing for the Tapatío squad in the 2006 Season. He has yet to make his debut in the Primera División with Chivas. Shortly after the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship Hércules CF, at that time a second division club from Spain, was interested in signing him, which would have made him the second player that never had an official debut in the Mexican first division to be signed by a European club, alongside Carlos Vela from Chivas. In 2007 he was loaned to Dorados de Sinaloa and quickly established himself as the clubs top keeper, appearing in 36 league matches.

On March 9, 2011, Arias was loaned by Chivas de Guadalajara to American side Chivas USA.

International

Arias was the starting goalkeeper of the Mexican national football team that won the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship against Brazil. He had a good tournament, playing well and only allowing 3 goals in 9 matches. He was praised by the Mexican press as the "new" Oswaldo Sanchez.

Arias was cut from the final list for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, being the only player from the starting eleven that won the U-17 World Championship that didn't come back for the U-20 Championship. Even though he did not make the 23 man list for the U-20 World Cup held in Canada in 2007, he was called up to play for the Mexican National Football Team at the 2007 Panamerican Games being held in Rio de Jainero. He was a starter in all the group stage games and was proven victorious by eventually earning the bronze medal in the competition.

Honours

International

Mexico

• FIFA U-17 World Championship: 2005

External links

• Profile at transfermarkt.co.uk