José Francisco Cevallos

José Francisco Cevallos Villavicencio ( born April 17, 1971 in Ancon, Santa Elena, Ecuador ) is a former football player ( goalkeeper ), mainly for Barcelona SC Guayaquil and the Ecuadorian national team. As a result of his achievements in the successful qualification for the 2002 World Cup, which led to the first World Cup participation of his country, he received the honorary name among fans Las Manos del Ecuador (Eng. " The hands of Ecuador "). Even today he is regarded by many as the best goalkeeper in the history of Ecuadorian football. He won with Barcelona SC 1991, 1995 and 1997, the Ecuadorian Championship, which he won again with Liga de Quito in 2010.

As a goalkeeper, Liga de Quito, he had a significant share of the profits of the Copa Libertadores in 2008, he parried by three penalties in the final against Fluminense. Subsequently, he was voted the best goalkeeper of South America elected at an event organized by the newspaper El País from Uruguay 2008 election. As an international, he participated in four tournaments at the Copa América and the 2002 World Cup, where he was a regular player. He is still the goalkeeper with most operations in the Ecuadorian national team.

Since May 24, 2011 José Francisco Cevallos Sports Minister is in the Cabinet of President Rafael Correa.

Career

Barcelona SC Guayaquil

Cevallos moved to the years 1990 season at the club from the Ecuadorian port city of Guayaquil, where he spent most of his career with more than 400 operations in official games. He also contributed to winning the championships of 1991, 1995 and 1997. His most significant international operations for the club he had in the Copa Libertadores 1998. During that season Barcelona SC reached for the second time in club history the final of the most important South American competition for club teams, had, however, for the second time to admit defeat when the team CR Vasco da Gama from Brazil defeated.

Once Caldas and Deportivo Azogues

In 2005 he moved on loan to the reigning Copa Libertadores winners Once Caldas in Colombia. There, however, he could not assert himself and changed mid-year to Guayaquil back. After another year and a half seasons, he moved in early 2007 to Deportivo Azogues. Since he was at that time already 36 years old, many considered this station for the last of his career. However, he was back to his old form and was then obliged Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito of for the 2008 season.

Liga de Quito

Cevallos ' contract with the club from the capital Quito began with the 2008 season, where he should help the club to defend the championship title the previous season. As in 1998, he was in the season but also internationally protagonists. In the quarter- finals of the Copa Libertadores 2008 Liga de Quito defeated the Argentine club San Lorenzo in a penalty shootout, where Cevallos parried the decisive shot by Aureliano Torres. In the semi-final against Club América from Mexico he wore with his saves in the second leg in Quito to the fact that after a 0-0 1-1 in the first leg was enough to enter the final. In the final against Fluminense FC, ​​in which they are exposed, the away goals rule, subject to his team after a 4-2 first leg in Quito in the second leg in Rio de Janeiro with 1:3, so that it re- extension and finally came to the penalty shootout. In this succeeded Cevallos to parry the penalty of Darío Conca, Thiago Neves and Washington, and thus his club to bring the first win of the Copa Libertadores. It was the first time that an Ecuadorian team won this competition. When choosing to South America Player of the year he was elected in the same year 's best goalkeeper and. In the Team of the Year The IFFHS lead him to its annual best list as the sixth best Goalkeeper of the Year. With the FIFA Club World Cup 2008, he reached with his team the final, but lost by a goal from Wayne Rooney with 0-1 against Manchester United. In 2009 he won with his team against the Recopa Sudamericana SC Internacional, the South American Super Cup. Here, however, Cevallos played only in the return game, as he came on in the 62nd minute for Alexander Domínguez. In the final of the Recopa Sudamericana 2010 Cevallos played the return match against Estudiantes de La Plata, where he had to take a clean sheet in Quilmes and after a 2-1 first leg in Quito again able to win the trophy.

Cevallos remained until 2011 in the squad for Liga de Quito, where he was no longer first-choice goalkeeper in the last two seasons. In the final of the Copa Sudamericana 2009, which won his team again against Fluminense, was just as in the first leg at the Recopa Sudamericana 2009 and 2010 Alexander Domínguez between the posts. On 16 May 2011 he finished his career, but was a substitute in the league game against Imbabura SC on May 22 for the last time ( in 71 minutes of Domínguez ).

National

His debut in the Ecuadorian national team was Cevallos on September 21, 1994 against Peru. With this he took part in the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea as well as some of the tournaments at the Copa América in 1995 in Uruguay 1997 in Colombia, Bolivia in 1999 and 2001 in Peru. After 77 races in 2004 he declared his resignation from the national team.

In 2008 he ran again for the national team but at first in a friendly against his own club Liga de Quito, in which he was substituted at half-time against Máximo Banguera. In the following years he came to eleven other international matches, including several qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup, most recently in September 2009 against Colombia.

Achievements

• Ecuadorian Champions 1991, 1995, 1997, 2010
• Win the Copa Libertadores 2008 finals Copa Libertadores 1998
• Win Copa Sudamericana 2009 (no use in the final )
• Recopa Sudamericana victory in 2009 and 2010
• Finals FIFA Club World Cup 2008

Sports Minister

Since May 24, 2011 Cevallos, as the successor of Sandra Vela Sport Minister of Ecuador.

Trivia

Cevallos founded a foundation that works especially for children and their promotion in football.

On January 26, 2011 Cevallos and his son José " Panchito " Cevallos Jr. stood at the launch of the team from Liga de Quito for the 2011 season as part of a Noche Blanca friendly match against Once Caldas mentioned for the first time together on the field. This is the first common game at the professional level in Ecuador, in which father and son stood together on the court; However, it was not official competition. Currently, Cevallos junior Liga de Quito loaned out to Juventus, where he is active in the youth team.

His brother, Alex Cevallos, was also a goalkeeper and played mainly for local rivals CS Emelec.