Salvador Cabrera

Salvador Cabrera ( born August 21, 1973 in Mexico City) is a former Mexican football player at the position of central defender.

Life

Stations as a player

Cabrera began his career in the 1994/95 season the club Necaxa, for whom he made ​​his debut in the Mexican Primera División Nov. 27, 1994 in an away game against the Toros Neza, which ended 1-1. Right at the end of his first season with Necaxa won the league title and Cabrera could even defend the Necaxistas him in the following season. Great personal contribution had Cabrera at third championship reached the finals against Chivas Guadalajara in the Torneo Invierno 1998, which Necaxa. After a goalless home game scored just the defender Cabrera in the 54th minute of the second leg at the Estadio Jalisco Guadalajara themselves ahead 1-0 Necaxa and thus broke the spell, the follow his teammate Sergio Vázquez three minutes before the end of the game the crucial 2-0 left, so the third league title for Necaxa in the 1990s was in the bag.

Although Cabrera meantime for city rivals Atlante ( 2001) and the Puebla FC ( 2003/ 04) played, he always returned to the Necaxistas back, in whose ranks he in the 2006/07 season could end his active career.

National

Cabrera was part of the contingent of the Mexican national team in the discharged in the summer of 1999 Copa América in 1999 in Paraguay, where he however did not play.

He had already contested on 10 February 1999 in a friendly match against Argentina (0-1 ), where he had come half time to use his international debut. His last international match completed Cabrera on February 20, 2000, compared Canada ( 1:2 after golden goal ) in the quarterfinals of the discharged in the USA CONCACAF Gold Cup 2000, where he had also denied the group match against Trinidad and Tobago ( 4-0).

Achievements

• Mexican champions: 1994/95, 1995/96 and Invierno 1998