Francisco "Paco" Buyo Sánchez (born 13 January 1958) is a Spanish former

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who played as a goalkeeper. Best known for his Sevilla and

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spells, he appeared in 542 La Liga matches, third all-time highest at the time of his retirement, winning 12 major titles with the latter club. Buyo was a backup on the Spain national team for about one decade, representing the nation in two

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Club career

Buyo was born in Betanzos, Province of A Coruña. At the age of 14 he began playing football for local Ural CF, for which he appeared as both a goalkeeper and right winger during his one-year spell, achieving the feat of being both unbeaten between the goalposts and also the team's top scorer. Buyo's first senior club was

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, in the Tercera División. After one season he joined Deportivo de La Coruña, where he would stay until 1980, with a loan to SD Huesca – while he performed military service in Jaca – in between. He made his debut in La Liga in the 1980–81 season with Sevilla FC, being the starting goalkeeper from the beginning; he appeared in 248 competitive matches during his spell, also earning his first callup to the Spanish national team. Buyo's performances at Sevilla made

require his services, signing him in 1986 as a replacement for veteran Miguel Ángel. In his first season he played all 44 league games (the campaign featured a second stage), the first being a 3–1 away win over Real Murcia, being instrumental to the ''Merengues national title. He would remain in the Spanish capital until his retirement in 1997, aged 39. The local success Buyo met with Madrid (six leagues and two Copa del Rey) could not be translated into international accolades, as they kept being eliminated in

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competition. However, in his first season, he did have a memorable performance against Michel Platini's Juventus F.C. in the round-of-16 of the 1986–87 edition: after the Spaniards won 1–0 in the first leg and the Italians did the same in the second meeting, the winner was decided in a penalty shootout, won by the former after he saved two of the opposition's shots. He earned his first Ricardo Zamora Trophy during his second league campaign after conceding only 23 goals in 35 league fixtures, and his second came in 1991–92 during which he played as many matches, with 27 goals against. Madrid would win two more league titles with Buyo in goal, the first of which came in 1994–95, during which he also had a streak of 709 minutes without conceding a goal in league play, between 3 December 1994 and 12 February 1995, the fifth-longest streak ever in the Spanish league; in total, he kept 17 clean sheets throughout the course of the season. In his final year the club won another league, but he did not feature at all as he was only third choice behind Bodo Illgner and Santiago Cañizares. Buyo retired with 542 top-division games played, the third-most behind another goalkeeper, Andoni Zubizarreta, and

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International career

During Buyo's time at Deportivo, he was selected to the Spain under-21 team. He also represented the nation at the

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, being eliminated in the first round. At full international level, Buyo was capped seven times and was part of the squad that finished runner-up at the UEFA Euro 1984. His debut came on 21 December 1983 in the historical 12–1 trouncing of Malta for the

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, in a match played in Seville.

Post-retirement

After retiring, Buyo had a short coaching spell with Real Madrid ''cadetes'' and third senior team, In 2000–01, he was in charge of

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in the

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. He only returned to the benches in 2008, with Real Jaén's reserves. Additionally, Buyo worked as a sports analyst in

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, contributing to its La Liga and UEFA Euro 2008 coverage.

Honours

Real Madrid * La Liga: 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1994–95, 1996–97 * Copa del Rey: 1988–89,

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: 1994 Spain * UEFA European Championship runner-up:

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Individual * Ricardo Zamora Trophy: 1987–88, 1991–92

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