Waldir Sáenz
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Waldir Alejandro Sáenz Pérez | ||
Date of birth | May 15, 1973 | ||
Place of birth | Lima, Perú | ||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
1986–1991 | Alianza Lima | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992–1998 | Alianza Lima | 169 | (108) |
1998 | Colorado Rapids | 23 | (6) |
1999 | Alianza Lima | 32 | (22) |
1999–2000 | Unión de Santa Fe | 3 | (1) |
2000 | Sporting Cristal | 15 | (4) |
2001–2005 | Alianza Lima | 117 | (38) |
2006 | Melgar | 6 | (1) |
2007 | Deportivo Municipal | 5 | (0) |
2008 | Alianza Lima | 6 | (0) |
2009 | Sport Boys | 18 | (12) |
2013 | Walter Ormeño | 8 | (2) |
International career‡ | |||
1993–2000 | Peru | 27 | (3) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of January 2010 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of January 2010 |
Waldir Alejandro Sáenz Pérez (born May 15, 1973, in Lima) is a Peruvian retired football striker.
Career
[edit]Waldir is most famous as a player for Alianza Lima, in which he became the all-time leading goalscorer of the club with 168 goals in 324 matches. He also played for Colorado Rapids (1998), Unión de Santa Fe (1999), Sporting Cristal (2000), among others. In 2013, he came back from retirement to play for Walter Ormeño.
International career
[edit]He obtained 27 caps for the Peru national football team from 1993 to 2000, scoring three goals.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Pierrend, José Luis (2009-05-28). "Peru - Record International Players". RSSSF.
External links
[edit]- Waldir Sáenz at BDFA (in Spanish)
- Waldir Sáenz at Soccerway
- Waldir Sáenz at fichajes.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 21 July 2019)
- Waldir Sáenz at National-Football-Teams.com
- Waldir Saenz's Goals
Categories:
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Lima
- Men's association football forwards
- Peruvian men's footballers
- Peru men's international footballers
- Peruvian Primera División players
- Argentine Primera División players
- Major League Soccer players
- Club Alianza Lima footballers
- Colorado Rapids players
- Unión de Santa Fe footballers
- Sporting Cristal footballers
- FBC Melgar footballers
- Deportivo Municipal footballers
- Sport Boys footballers
- Peruvian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
- Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
- 1993 Copa América players
- 1997 Copa América players
- 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- Peruvian football forward stubs