Hugo Sánchez
Hugo Sánchez 2008
Hugo Sánchez Márquez ( born July 11, 1958 in Mexico City) is a former Mexican football player and current coach. He is considered one of the best Mexican soccer player in history.
Club career
Hugo Sánchez, who grew up in a sports-loving family, has been appointed as a 14- year-old in the Mexican youth team. In 1975 he moved to UNAM Pumas, who celebrated the first national championship title of the story a year later. In the following years he hurried with Pumas from success to success: in 1980 and 1981 won the University team from Mexico City to the CONCACAF Champions ' Cup, in which are competed for club teams from North and Central America against each other. In 1981, the team also secured the Copa Interamericana by defeating South American champion Nacional Montevideo and in turn brought the Mexican championship. For this item also particularly Sánchez was much talked about, which provided for gates on the assembly line and thus made interesting for top teams.
The end of 1981 left Sánchez, who shone as a brilliant technician and as a cold-blooded scorer, Mexico and moved to Spain with top club Atlético Madrid. In 1985, he was there with 19 goals scorer before he decided to move to local rivals Real Madrid.
In the seven years at Real Madrid Sanchez celebrated the greatest success of his career. The striker, who described himself on the football field as an artist, secured between 1986 and 1990, the Spanish top scorer four times and hit almost at will. Five times he won the Spanish championship in a row (1986 to 1990), fetched twice the Copa del Rey (1985 and 1989) and won the 1986 UEFA Cup. Sánchez was one of the best and most prolific strikers in the 1980s and harmonized well with his strike partners Jorge Valdano and Emilio Butragueño. Despite its sporting prowess of the Mexicans was not without controversy in the Spanish capital, because he laid a strong drive to achieve self-presentation on the day. When the opponents Sánchez, among whose repertoire often hidden fouls and swallows, was also unpopular.
After the 1994 World Cup, he returned again back to Mexico and signed a contract with CF Atlante. But even here, it did not keep him long and so the 37 -year-old moved in September 1995 to the Austrian second division side FC Linz. After another short engagements at Dallas Burn in Major League Soccer and Atlético Celaya he finished in 1997 his long and great career.
Career in the National Team
In 1977, he played 19 years for the first time for the Mexican national football team, which qualified for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. In the qualification Sanchez contributed four goals and Mexico sat down with 20:5 hits and five wins in five games by sovereign. At the World Cup finals Sánchez was outside left in all three games of the Mexicans of the party, the opponents were too strong. Against world champions Germany, the bronze medalist Poland and Tunisia, there were three defeats and one traveled with 2:12 gates home after the group stage.
The most important appearance in his home country at the 1986 World Cup on home soil ended in the quarterfinals. There was subject to the selection of the host country to the Germans on penalties. Sanchez remained with four inserts with only one hit far below its potential, which is why the Mexican public was disappointed; you had hoped for from the striker and his team more. Sánchez then declared his retirement from international football.
In March 1993, Sánchez returned after seven -year hiatus, back in the national team. The following year he took part in his third and final World Cup in the United States. Here he came only to a use; he had passed its zenith and now finally ended his career in the national team. Only during the friendly match on 18 March 1998 against Paraguay (1-1) he came again used, which were, a " farewell match " for him.
For the Mexican national football team, he completed 58 games, scoring 29 goals. Hugo Sánchez was pleased by goals often with a spectacular handspring.
Career as a coach
Between November 2006 and 31 March 2008 he was coach of the Mexican national team, before he was dismissed for failure. In December 2008, he took over as coach at UD Almeria. Almost exactly a year later, on 21 December 2009, but he was there dismissed for poor performance.
Achievements
- Mexican champion: 1977, 1981
- Spanish Cup winners: 1985, 1989
- Spanish Super Cup Winners: 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990
- Spanish Champion: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990
- UEFA Cup winner: 1986
- Best foreign player in La Liga: 1987, 1990
- Inclusion in the FIFA 100 in 2004
- Scorer of the Mexican League: 1978
- Scorer in the Primera División: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990
- Golden Shoe as top scorer in Europe: 1990