Fernando Sanz
Personal information
Full name Fernando Sanz Durán[1]
Date of birth (1974-01-04) 4 January 1974[1]
Place of birth Madrid, Spain[1]
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s) Centre-back
Youth career
Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1994 Real Madrid C 22 (0)
1994–1996 Real Madrid B 47 (0)
1993 → Unión Española (loan) 20 (0)
1996–1999 Real Madrid 35 (0)
1999–2006 Málaga 205 (5)
Total 329 (5)
International career
1990–1991 Spain U17 2 (0)
1991 Spain U18 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fernando Sanz Durán (born 4 January 1974) is a Spanish former 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 228 official games. Subsequently, he worked for four years as the club's president.

Club career

Real Madrid

Born in Madrid, Sanz was a product of Real Madrid's youth system and, after a quick loan stint with Unión Española in Chile,[2] first appeared with the main squad on 2 March 1996, playing nine minutes of a 5–0 home win against UD Salamanca (José García Calvo, another centre back from the academy, also played his first La Liga game that day).[3] He finished the season with 13 appearances, playing a further six matches in the following as the team were 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.[4]

Málaga

For the start of 1999–2000, 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.[5] That season, the Andalusia side finished tenth and he helped it win the subsequent Intertoto Cup, which eventually led to a UEFA Cup quarter-final run, with the player appearing in eight complete games.

Sanz retired from football in 2006 after Málaga's relegation, with 240 matches and five goals in the top level to his credit, immediately becoming its president after his father bought 97% of the shares.[6] After four years, he resigned on 27 July 2010 as the club was sold earlier in the summer to a Qatari investor.[7]

Personal life

Sanz was 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.[8]

His older brother, Francisco, was also a footballer.[9]

Honours

Real Madrid

Málaga

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "FERNANDO SANZ Durán". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2009.
  2. ↑ Díaz, Pablo (8 November 2012). "Paco Sanz, el hijo del presidente que se sabía peor que los demás" [Paco Sanz, the president's son who knew he was worse than everybody else]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  3. ↑ Carbajosa, Carlos E. (3 March 1996). "Goles de oficio y a la contra" [Know-how and counterattack goals]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Lowe, Sid (10 September 2001). "Sanz returns to haunt Madrid". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Segurola, Santiago (9 September 2001). "El Málaga saca los colores al Madrid" [Málaga unsettle Madrid]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Mejías, Belén (3 April 2009). ""El Real Madrid forma parte del pasado"" ["Real Madrid is now in the past"] (in Spanish). Defensa Central. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
  7. ↑ Ortiz García, Jesús (12 June 2010). "Un jeque de Qatar compra el Málaga" [Qatari sheikh buys Málaga]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 October 2011.
  8. ↑ "Míchel Salgado and Malula Sanz esperan su tercer hijo" [Míchel Salgado and Malula Sanz await third child] (in Spanish). ¡Hola!. 15 April 2009. Archived from the original on 30 August 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
  9. ↑ Miguelez, José (7 June 1999). "Las confesiones de Paco Sanz" [The confessions of Paco Sanz]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 April 2012.
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