Sergio Goycochea

Football player infobox
playername = Sergio Goycochea


fullname = Sergio Javier Goycochea
height = height|m=1.85
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dateofbirth = birth date and age|1963|10|17
cityofbirth = Lima
countryofbirth = Argentina
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position = Goalkeeper
youthyears =
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years = 1979-1982
1982-1988
1988-1990
1991
1992
1992
1993
1993-1994
1994-1995
1995-1996
1996-1997
1997-1998
clubs = Defensores Unidos
River Plate
Millonarios
Racing Club
Brest
Cerro Porteño
Olimpia
River Plate
Mandiyú
Internacional
Vélez Sársfield
Newell's Old Boys
caps(goals) = -
58 (0)
-
35 (0)
-
-
-
16 (0)
30 (0)
-
02 (0)
13 (0)
nationalyears = 1988-1994
nationalteam = Argentina
nationalcaps(goals) = 44 (0)
pcupdate = July 2007

Sergio Javier Goycochea IPA| [ˈzeɾ.hjo ha.ˈβjeɾ goj.ko.ˈʧe.a] (born October 17, 1963 in Lima, Buenos Aires) is a famous Argentine former football goalkeeper. He is best known for his penalty kick saves.

Goycochea was the substitute for Nery Pumpido both in River Plate and in the Argentine national team, and got his big break in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, when Pumpido was injured in Argentina's second group game against the Soviet Union.Goycochea was then the goalkeeper in the penalty shootout in the quarterfinal game against the Yugoslavian team. In the semifinal game against Italy, he saved penalty kicks in the penalty shootout from players Roberto Donadoni and Aldo Serena. He was also close to saving the heavily criticized game-winning penalty kick of the 1990 World Cup final against Germany, which Argentina lost 0-1. He was chosen as the goalkeeper of the Cup's All-Star Team.

"El Goyco" also played a few months in 1991 for the team Stade Brestois 29 from Brest in the region of Bretagne, which was then named "Brest Armorique", and was in the French second division and included players David Ginola, Corentin Martins and Stéphane Guivarc'h. Nonetheless, the team went bankrupt in November of that year, and was moved to the third division and lost its professional-team status.

With the national team, Goycochea also won the 1993 Copa América final in Ecuador on July 4, 1993 with Argentina 2-1 against goalkeeper Jorge Campos' Mexican national team. On the occasion of that 1993 Copa América tournament, Goycochea appeared on TV commercials for a Pepsi promotion by PepsiCo's division in Guayaquil. He also was on TV commercials for Adidas soccer apparel some years later.

His last name, "Goycochea", spelled without "e", but which other people of the same genealogy spell as "Goycoechea", is derived from a Basque-language expression meaning " topmost house" (from "goyko", above, and "etxe", house), and so Sergio is frequently nicknamed "El Vasco", but also "El Goyco".

For Argentina, Goycochea played in the following competitions:
*1990 FIFA World Cup Italy (runners-up)
*Copa América 1991 Chile (champions)
*Copa América 1993 Ecuador (champions)
*1994 FIFA World Cup U.S. (second round, substitute)

Nowadays, Goycochea is a football journalist hosting "Resto del mundo" (Argentina's Canal 13) and he partnered Diego Maradona at "La noche del Diez".

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*es icon [http://www.futbolxxi.com/Futbolista.aspx?ID=5304&SEOFutbolista=Goycochea+Sergio+Javier Argnetine Primera statistics]
*es icon [http://www.diagonal.org.ar/per_edicion-det.php?id=229 Interview to Sergio Goycochea - Diagonal]

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