Iván Cuéllar

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Iván Cuéllar
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Cuéllar in 2013
Personal information
Full name Iván Cuéllar Sacristán
Date of birth (1984-05-27) 27 May 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth Mérida, Spain
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Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Sporting Gijón
Number 1
Youth career
2001–2002 Mérida
2002–2003 Atlético Madrid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002 Mérida 1 (0)
2003–2005 Atlético Madrid B 17 (0)
2005–2008 Atlético Madrid 8 (0)
2007–2008 → Eibar (loan) 38 (0)
2008– Sporting Gijón 163 (0)
International career
2006 Spain U21 4 (0)
2005 Spain U23 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 May 2016

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This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Cuéllar and the second or maternal family name is Sacristán.

Iván Cuéllar Sacristán (born 27 May 1984), nicknamed Pichu, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Sporting de Gijón as a goalkeeper.

Club career

Cuéllar was born in Mérida, Extremadura. After emerging through the youth ranks of Atlético Madrid, he made his first appearance for the main squad in the last matchday of the 2004–05 season, in a 2–2 draw against neighbours Getafe CF.[1] In 2006–07, benefitting from the forced absence of first-choice Leo Franco, he played in a further seven games, including a 0–6 home defeat to FC Barcelona on 20 May 2007.[2]

After a season-long loan at second division club SD Eibar, appearing in all the matches save four, Cuéllar was released by Atlético (as another youth graduate in the same position, Ismael Falcón) and joined Sporting de Gijón in August 2008, on a four-year contract. After Sergio Sánchez conceded 19 goals in the season's first four games he became first-choice but, after a collision with Athletic Bilbao's Carlos Gurpegui during a 0–3 away loss on 14 December, suffered a serious ankle injury which rendered him unavailable for four months.[3]

In mid-November 2009, as he was second-choice to Juan Pablo, Cuéllar suffered another severe injury, damaging his knee in training and being lost for the vast majority of the season.[3] His first game after recovering would take place on 22 September 2010, as manager Manuel Preciado rested the vast majority of the starters for a Wednesday match at Barcelona – in a week where all the teams played three games – which ended in a 0–1 loss.[4]

In January 2013, after the departure of Juan Pablo to Maccabi Tel Aviv FC, Cuéllar was appointed as first-choice. On 8 July 2015 he renewed his contract with the Asturians, signing until 2018.[5]

Honours

Country

Spain U23

Individual

References

  1. ↑ Atlético: Cuéllar: “Debutar en Liga ha sido mi mejor regalo de cumpleaños” (Atlético: Cuéllar: “Making league debut was the best birthday present”); Noticias, 30 May 2005 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ El Barça saca los colores al Atlético (Barça obliterates Atlético); Marca, 20 May 2007 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 El colmo de la desgracia (It does not get any worse); El Comercio, 4 June 2010 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Villa to the rescue for Barca; ESPN Soccernet, 22 September 2010
  5. ↑ El Sporting renueva los contratos de Iván Cuéllar y Juan Muñiz (Sporting renews the contracts of Iván Cuéllar and Juan Muñiz); Sporting's official website, 8 July 2015 (Spanish)
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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