Ramón Alfredo Sánchez Paredes (born May 25, 1982, in

San Juan Opico San Juan Opico (or Opico) is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador. It is located 42 kilometers from San Salvador, capital of the country. The municipality has an area of 218 km2 and a population of 74,280 inhabitants ...

) is a Salvadoran football player. He was banned for life in 2013, for

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while playing for the

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Career

Club

Sánchez has played professionally with

Juventud Independiente Club Deportivo Juventud Independiente, also commonly known as Juventud Independiente, is a professional Salvadoran football club, based in San Juan Opico, La Libertad, El Salvador. Founded on 7 September 1943, holding home matches at Complejo ...

Arcense Club Deportivo Arcense Ciudad Arce, commonly known as C.D. Arcense are a El Salvador, Salvadoran professional football (soccer), football football club, club based in Ciudad Arce. History In 15 April 2002, Arcense won promotion to the Salvadora ...

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, Chalatenango and Alianza in the first division in El Salvador. He scored three goals in the 2009 season for Alianza, which was good for second most on the team. In total he has played 227 games in the Salvadoran first division and scored 19 goals. Sánchez joined the

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in 2009, and scored two goals in 10 appearances with the team in his debut year. He was later released from the team on June 29, 2010. In late July 2010, Sánchez signed a one-year contract with Águila, after having spent some time with the

of the

. After his contract expired with Aguila, he made a move to Isidro Metapán for the Apertura 2011. In February 2013 Sánchez signed with Kazakh team

FC Vostok FC Vostok (, ''Vostok Fýtbol Klýby'') was a Kazakh football club from Öskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk), and a founding member of the Kazakhstan Premier League in 1992. The club's best finish in the league was 5th place in 1997 and again in 1998. ...

to play in the

Kazakhstan Premier League The Kazakhstan Professional Football League (, ''Qazaqstan Premier Ligasy''), commonly referred to as the Kazakh Premier League or simply the Premier League, is a professional association football league in Kazakhstan and the highest level of the ...

. Following his life ban, Sánchez signed for

Iraqi Premier League The Iraq Stars League (), is the highest level of the Iraqi football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Iraqi Premier Division League. It is governed by the Iraqi Pro League Asso ...

side

Zakho FC Zakho Sport Club, () also spelled as Zaxo Sport Club (, ''Yana Zaxo ya Werzişî''), is an Iraqi professional sports club based in Zakho, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. History Football in Zakho was played unofficially from the early 1920s with many ...

, since the Iraqi Premier League is not being recognised by FIFA. Subsequently, fellow banned teammates José Henríquez and

Cristian Castillo Christian Giovanni Castillo Martínez (born August 25, 1984, in San Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer. He was banned for life in 2013 for match-fixing while playing for the El Salvador national football team. After being banned, he played fo ...

joined

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, also in the Iraqi Premier League.

International

In 2002 Sánchez won the gold medal with the Salvadoran U22 team in the Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos, beating Mexico in the final. Sánchez made his senior debut for

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in a June 2003

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against

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

and had, before his life ban, earned a total of 74caps, scoring 2 goals. He represented his country in 22

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matches and played at the

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as well as at the

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

and

2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup The 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 11th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition, and the 21st CONCACAF regional championship overall in CONCACAF's 50 years of existence. The United States was the host nation. The competition started on Jun ...

s.CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2011 - Full Details
- RSSSF On September 20, 2013, Sánchez was one of 14 El Salvador players banned for life due to their involvement with

International goals

Honours

Domestic

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: Clausura 2003, Apertura 2011

International

* 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games *

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2006 FIFA World Cup qualification The 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification competition was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. Each confederation – the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America ...

References

External links

El Grafico Profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez, Ramon 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from La Libertad Department (El Salvador) Men's association football midfielders Salvadoran men's footballers 21st-century Salvadoran sportsmen El Salvador men's international footballers 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players C.D. Juventud Independiente players San Salvador F.C. footballers A.D. Chalatenango footballers Alianza F.C. (El Salvador) footballers San Jose Earthquakes players C.D. Águila footballers A.D. Isidro Metapán footballers FC Vostok players Major League Soccer players Kazakhstan Premier League players Salvadoran expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Sportspeople involved in betting scandals Sportspeople banned for life Salvadoran expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Salvadoran expatriate sportspeople in the United States Salvadoran expatriate sportspeople in Iraq Expatriate men's footballers in Iraq