Sergio Sánchez Sánchez (born 28 April 1977) is a Spanish retired

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who played as a

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, and the

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Playing career

Sánchez was born in Carbayín Alto,

Siero Siero is a municipality of the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. Its capital is Pola de Siero Pola de Siero (in Asturian and as official name La Pola Siero, and also known as La Pola colloquially) is a town in ...

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. Having joined local

Sporting de Gijón Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. (), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting (although in an international context this can lead to confusion with Sporting Clube de Portugal) is a Spanish football club from Gijón, P ...

's youth system as an infant, he first appeared with the professionals during the 1998–99 season as the club was in the

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. Another spell at that level, with

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, would follow, although he played almost no part in the ''Colchoneross return to

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(three games). He was signed by the latter in October 1999, but remained on loan to the former until June of the following year. Loaned by Atlético to

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in 2002–03 – making his top-flight debut on 2 September 2002 in a 0–2 away loss against

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– Sánchez would meet the same fate the following campaign, with

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. There, he would appear in exactly half of the matches as the

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outskirts side achieved a first-ever promotion to the top tier, only collecting eight appearances during 2004–05. After an unassuming stint with

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, Sánchez signed for lowly

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, leaving shortly after due to personal reasons. He finished the season with

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in the

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. Sánchez returned to Gijón for 2007–08, featuring only once in the league as his team returned to the first division after a ten-year absence. He began the following campaign as the starter but, after conceding 19 goals in four matches (most in 50 years of competition), he would be relegated to the bench, being reinstated in late December following

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's serious

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injury in a 3–0 defeat at

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. With

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's arrival on loan from that club in January 2009 and Cuéllar's recovery, he would be demoted to third choice, and was eventually released in July.

Coaching career

In 2010, after one year without a club, Sánchez retired from football at the age of 33. He had his first coaching experience with amateurs

Candás CF Candás Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Candás, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1948, it plays in Tercera División – Group 2, holding home games at ''Estadio La Mata'', which has a capacity of 3,000 spe ...

as assistant to another former Sporting player,

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. Simultaneously, he opened his own football school, ''Dorsal 13''. Sánchez returned to Gijón in 2011, being appointed reserves goalkeeper coach and youth team manager.Sergio Sánchez entrenará al juvenil B en el nuevo organigrama (Sergio Sánchez to coach ''juvenil B'' in new organigram)
El Comercio, 5 July 2011 (in Spanish)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez, Sergio 1977 births Living people People from Siero Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Asturias Men's association football goalkeepers La Liga players Segunda División players Segunda División B players Sporting de Gijón B players Sporting de Gijón players Atlético Madrid footballers RCD Espanyol footballers Getafe CF footballers Hércules CF players Eredivisie players ADO Den Haag players Spanish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Spanish football managers Segunda Federación managers Tercera Federación managers Sporting Atlético managers