Esteban Alvarado

Esteban (2011)

Esteban Alvarado Brown, called Esteban, ( born October 28, 1989 in Siquirres ) is a football goalkeeper from Costa Rica.

Club career

In his youth, Esteban played in the youth teams of the Costa Rican giants CD Saprissa. In January 2009 he made ​​the jump to the professional squad. He made his debut in the season 2009/10 on matchday 15 of La Liga in a 3-1 home win against AD Municipal Liberia.

Since the 2010/11 season he plays for Dutch club AZ Alkmaar, where he was first-choice goalkeeper in the 2011/12 season.

On 21 December 2011, he became the focus of international publicity when he assaulted the second-round match of the Dutch Cup competition at Ajax Amsterdam as goalkeeper of AZ Alkmaar in the 36th minute from a spilled onto the pitch drunken hooligans from the ranks of the Ajax supporters been. The 19 -year-old attacker was leaped with the leg extended and a swing-out movement with the arm at Brown and Brown met in the leg. However, it was Brown, a total to fend him off, causing the attacker fell to the ground. Subsequently, Brown went two times with his foot against the leg of the man lying on the ground before rushed to the scene folder brought the man under their control. Brown was asked by the referee for his action with the red card from the square. After unsuccessful protests his team the coach of AZ Alkmaar Gertjan Verbeek decided to call players and coaches his team from the place they left the interior of the stadium. The referee then broke from the game. After the demolition, there were riots in Amsterdam between hooligans and police.

The sending-off was canceled one day after the incident, the Dutch Association as Esteban had been surreptitiously invaded and not have the attacker can see.

National team career

Esteban was nominated at the age of seventeen years for the U-20 World Cup Canada 2007. There, however, he played as a goalkeeper a single game. Two years later he ran as a goalkeeper for the U-20 World Cup 2009 in Egypt. As the fourth- best third place in the team just made the leap into the final round. There, however, she reached the semi-finals with victories against hosts Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. There they narrowly failed 0-1 on Brazil. Also the 3rd place match lost the team with nearly 1:3 after penalty shoot-out against Hungary. Esteban was in all seven games in goal for the team and stayed twice without conceding a goal.

On 27 March 2010, he debuted in the senior national team in a friendly against China. On September 13, 2012, he resigned after a dispute with Costa Rica's national team coach Jorge Luis Pinto from the national team.