Sergio Ibarra

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Sergio Ramón Ibarra (born in Río Cuarto, Córdoba Province) is a football striker from Argentina, who obtained the Peruvian nationality. He is nicknamed "Checho" and/or "Manteca".

Ibarra is famous for scoring many goals despite having what many consider as very limited technical abilities. He is very often the top scorer of his team. Although born in Argentina, Ibarra has played during almost all of his career in Peru, where he first moved at age 21 to join the ranks of Ciclista Lima in the first division, in 1992.

His biggest claim to fame was in 2004 when he won the Copa Sudamericana against River Plate and the Recopa against Boca Juniors in the same year as part of Cienciano. That same year the Argentine football magazine El Gráfico declared that he was the Argentine player who had scored the most goals worldwide (21), one more than Carlos Tévez, Andrés Silvera, and Luis Bonnett, and two more than Javier Saviola.

At present, at 171 goals throughout his career, he is close to top the record of top-scoring player of all time in the Peruvian league (173).