Alfredo Talavera
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| Full name | Alfredo Talavera Díaz | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | September 18, 1982 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | La Barca, Jalisco, Mexico | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Toluca | |||||||||||
| Number | 1 | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2003–2009 | Guadalajara | 21 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2008–2009 | → UANL (loan) | 2 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2009– | Toluca | 261 | (1) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2011– | Mexico | 24 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2016 | Mexico Olympic | 4 | (0) | |||||||||
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Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 September 2016. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 September 2016.
Alfredo Talavera Díaz (Spanish pronunciation: [alˈfɾeðo talaˈβeɾa]; born 18 September 1982 in La Barca) is a Mexican footballer, who plays for Toluca and the Mexico national team as a goalkeeper.
With Oswaldo Sánchez out during the first part of the Clausura 2005 with a shoulder injury, Talavera entered the Chivas team as a starter against teams from the Primera División de México, and also coming through against South American teams in the Copa Libertadores.
On 2 April 2006, Sanchez left temporarily to play with the Mexico national football team for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, leading Talavera in goals. Since then he has started six Clausura 2006 games for Chivas. In the first game he started the club posted a 2–0 loss against Monarcas Morelia. This was followed by a loss to Atlas in the Clásico Tapatío. In the final game of the season, Chivas lost to Toluca, 2–0, but after a terrible performance in the first leg of the quarter-finals against Jaguares when he made a big mistake in injury time that caused the winning goal for Jaguares, coach José Manuel de la Torre dropped him as the starter and was replaced by Luis Ernesto Michel and Guadalajara fought back and advanced to the semifinals. The next season, when Oswaldo Sánchez returned, Talavera saw himself as the third goalkeeper of Guadalajara, with Michel as the second keeper, after Oswaldo left Chivas, Michel was the starting keeper and Talavera the backup. After this, he didn't have any action with Chivas again, taking the decision to leave the club in order to have more minutes played.
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