Marco Sánchez Yacuta

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sánchez and the second or maternal family name is Yacuta.
Marco Sánchez Yacuta
Personal information
Full name Marco Antonio Sánchez Yacuta[1]
Date of birth (1972-05-10) 10 May 1972[1]
Place of birth Mexico City, Mexico
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position Left-back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–2001 América 188 (0)
1993–1994 → UAT (loan) 2 (0)
1994–1995 → Puebla (loan) 23 (3)
2001–2004 Pachuca 86 (1)
2005 Pachuca Juniors 19 (0)
2005–2006 Indios de Ciudad Juárez 39 (1)
International career
1996 Mexico 2 (0)
Managerial career
2010 Querétaro (Assistant)
2010 León (Assistant)
2011 América (assistant)
2011–2014 América Academy
2014–2016 Mexico Olympic (assistant)
2017 Atlante (assistant)
2019 UAT (assistant)
2019–2020 Santa Tecla
2021–2022 Real España (assistant)
2022 Cruz Azul Reserves
2023 Cruz Azul (Assistant)
2023–2024 UAT (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marco Antonio Sánchez Yacuta (born 10 May 1972) is a former professional Mexican footballer and manager who last played for Indios de Ciudad Juárez.[2]

Club career

Sánchez Yacuta began his professional career in the 1992–93 season with his hometown club Club América; he made his debut in the Mexican Primera División on October 10, 1992. In total he made nine first division appearances in that season and was loaned out to Correcaminos UAT for the following season, where he only made two appearances. He played for Puebla F.C. in the 1994–95 season, where he made 23 appearances and scored three goals.

For the 1995–96 season he was brought back to Club América, and made 179 first division appearances for them in the following six seasons.[3]

Before the 2001–02 season he was signed by C.F. Pachuca, with whom he won the Mexican football championship for the first time (the Torneo Invierno 2001). Further titles followed in 2002 when he won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup and in 2003 with another championship title in the Apertura 2003. Sánchez made his last first division appearance on November 13, 2004 against CF Monterrey, against whom he had made his debut twelve years before.

In the first half of 2005, then 32-year-old Sánchez played a total of 19 league games for the branch team Pachuca Juniors. He ended his active career in the 2005–06 season with then second division club Indios de Ciudad Juárez.

National team

In 1996, Sánchez made two test appearances for the Mexico national football team: first on February 7, 1996 in the 1-2 defeat in Chile and on May 18, 1996 in the 5-2 win against Slovakia.

Coaching career

Sánchez Yacuta started his coaching career in 2010, he has been part of the technical staffs of Querétaro, León, América, Mexico Olympic, Atlante, UAT, Real España and Cruz Azul, being a frequent collaborator of Raúl Gutiérrez.[4][5][6] In 2019, he was named the coach for Santa Tecla.[7]

Honours

Pachuca

References

  1. ^ a b "Marco Antonio Sánchez Yacuta" (in Spanish). Liga MX. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Marco Antonio Sánchez Yacuta quiere dirigir al América". TUDN (in Spanish). 20 May 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Sánchez Yacuta, otro ex-América, llega a Cruz Azul" (in Spanish). Soy Fútbol. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Raúl Gutiérrez a cargo de Selección Olímpica". Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  5. ^ "Raúl "El Potro" Gutiérrez es oficialmente el nuevo técnico azulgrana". www.atlantefc.mx. 7 June 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  6. ^ "El Atlante despide a Raúl Gutiérrez" [Atlante fires Raúl Gutiérrez]. www.marca.com (in Spanish). 22 October 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  7. ^ "MARCO SÁNCHEZ YACUTA, NUEVO DT DEL SANTA TECLA DE EL SALVADOR" (in Spanish). Récord. 4 May 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
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