Hugo Ayala
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Full name | Hugo Ayala Castro | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 31 March 1987 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Centre Back | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | UANL | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
2000–2002 | Morelia | ||||||||||||||||
2002–2006 | Atlas | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2004–2010 | Atlas | 86 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2010– | UANL | 304 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2006–2007 | Mexico U20 | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2009– | Mexico | 47 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 05:27, 14 October 2018 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 04:09, 9 September 2018 (UTC) |
Hugo Ayala Castro (born 31 March 1987) is a Mexican professional footballer who currently plays as a centre back for Tigres UANL and the national team.
Club career
Club Atlas
Hugo Ayala started his professional career with Atlas. He made his official debut in 2006 as a starter against C.D. Guadalajara. Although Atlas lost 3–1 he became an often used substitute ending the season. In the next season he starting showing great talent in defending and became a starter in Atlas's defensive line up, leading Atlas all the way to the quarter finals to face Club América, but lost to them in an aggregate score of (7–4). Throughout his career with Atlas he was mostly used as a substitute until the manager, Ricardo La Volpe, took his place as manager of Atlas. La Volpe then started having confidence in Ayala, and made Ayala a starter and captain for Atlas. Then after Tigres saw great intres in Ayala his new club was Tigres
Tigres UANL
On 2010, he arrived to Tigres UANL and by 2011 he already was the starter centre-back along with Juninho, both key players for the Apertura 2011 championship. Ayala was named best defender of the Apertura 2011 season alongside teammate Jorge Torres Nilo. Ayala, a starter in Tigres since 2011, later would become champion with the team in the Apertura 2015, Apertura 2016 and Apertura 2017 seasons besides runner-up of the 2015 Copa Libertadores.
International career
Under José Manuel de la Torre, Miguel Herrera and Juan Carlos Osorio, Ayala has been a regular call-up for Mexico.
In May 2018 he was named in Mexico’s preliminary 28-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia,[2] and was ultimately included in the final 23-man roster revealed on 4 June.[3] He would go on to be the starter in the opening match against Germany, where Mexico won 1–0.
Career statistics
International
- As of 7 September 2018[4]
Mexico | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2009 | 2 | 0 |
2010 | 1 | 0 |
2011 | 0 | 0 |
2012 | 4 | 0 |
2013 | 4 | 0 |
2014 | 3 | 0 |
2015 | 10 | 0 |
2016 | 5 | 0 |
2017 | 9 | 0 |
2018 | 8 | 1 |
Total | 46 | 1 |
International goals
- Scores and results list Mexico's goal tally first.[5]
No | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 31 January 2018 | Alamodome, San Antonio, United States | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
Honors
Club
- UANL
- Liga MX: Apertura 2011, Apertura 2015, Apertura 2016, Apertura 2017
- Copa MX: Clausura 2014
- Campeón de Campeones: 2016, 2017, 2018
- Campeones Cup: 2018
Individual
- Best Centre Back of the tournament: Apertura 2011
- Liga MX Best XI: Apertura 2015, Apertura 2017
References
- ^ "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ http://www.goal.com/en-gb/amp/news/revealed-every-world-cup-2018-squad-23-man-preliminary-lists/oa0atsduflsv1nsf6oqk576rb
- ^ "Convocatoria de la Selección Nacional de México". MiSeleccion.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ "Hugo Ayala". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
- ^ "Ayala, Hugo". National Football Teams. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
External links
- Hugo Ayala – Liga MX stats at MedioTiempo.com (archived) (in Spanish)
- Hugo Ayala at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Mexico youth international footballers
- Mexico international footballers
- People from Morelia
- Footballers from Michoacán
- Club Atlas footballers
- Tigres UANL footballers
- Liga MX players
- Association football central defenders
- 2015 Copa América players
- 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico
- Pan American Games medalists in football
- Mexican footballers
- 2018 FIFA World Cup players
- Mexican football biography stubs