Fernando Sanz
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Fernando Sanz Durán | ||
| Date of birth | 4 January 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Madrid, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Real Madrid | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1993–1996 | Real Madrid B | 47 | (0) |
| 1993 | → Unión Española (loan) | 20 | (0) |
| 1996–1999 | Real Madrid | 35 | (0) |
| 1999–2006 | Málaga | 205 | (4) |
| National team | |||
| 1990–1991 | Spain U17 | 2 | (0) |
| 1991 | Spain U18 | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
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Fernando Sanz Durán (born 4 January 1974) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a central defender.
He spent seven years of his professional career with Málaga – after starting out at Real Madrid – appearing in more than 250 official games. Subsequently, he worked for four years as the club's president.
Football career
Real Madrid
Born in Madrid, Sanz was a product of Real Madrid's youth system and, after a quick loan stint in Chile, first appeared with the main side on 2 March 1996, playing nine minutes of a 5–0 home win against UD Salamanca (José García Calvo, another centre back from the youth ranks, also played his first top flight game that day). He finished the season with 13 appearances, playing a further six matches in the following as the club was crowned league champions.
Sanz was also part of their UEFA Champions League victory in 1997–98. However, despite being the son of Lorenzo Sanz, the president of the club at the time, he never really managed to hold up a regular first team spot at Real.
Málaga
For the start of the 1999–2000 season, Sanz signed with Málaga CF. On 8 September 2001 he scored his first goal as a professional, in a 1–1 draw at his former employers. That season, the Andalusia side finished 10th and he helped it win the subsequent Intertoto Cup, which eventually led to a UEFA Cup quarterfinal run, with the player appearing in eight complete games.
Sanz retired from football in 2006, after Málaga's relegation, with 240 matches and four goals in the top level to his credit, immediately becoming president of the club after his father bought 97% of its shares.[1] After four years, he resigned on 27 July 2010, as the club was sold earlier in the summer to a Qatari investor.[2]
Honours
- Real Madrid
- Málaga
Personal life
Sanz is the brother-in-law of another Real Madrid player, Míchel Salgado – the two were never teammates, as Salgado arrived the year Sanz left the club – who married his sister Malula.[3]
His older brother, Francisco (commonly known as 'Paco'), was also a footballer. He played as a professional for Real Oviedo, Racing de Santander and RCD Mallorca, totalling only eight top division games in five seasons.[4][5]
References
- ↑ "El Real Madrid forma parte del pasado" ("Real Madrid is now in my past"); Defensa Central, 3 April 2009 (Spanish)
- ↑ Un jeque de Qatar compra el Málaga (Qatari sheikh buys Málaga); El Mundo, 12 June 2010 (Spanish)
- ↑ Míchel Salgado and Malula Sanz esperan su tercer hijo (Míchel Salgado and Malula Sanz await third child); ¡Hola!, 15 April 2009 (Spanish)
- ↑ Las confesiones de Paco Sanz (The confessions of Paco Sanz); El País, 7 June 1999 (Spanish)
- ↑ Paco Sanz at BDFutbol
External links
- BDFutbol profile
- El Mundo stats (Spanish)