Fernando Sanz
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Fernando Sanz Durán | ||
| Date of birth | 4 January 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Madrid, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | 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) | |
| National team | |||
| 1990–1991 | Spain U17 | 2 | (0) |
| 1991 | Spain U18 | 1 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Fernando Sanz Durán (born 4 January 1974) is a Spanish retired 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.
Born in Madrid, Sanz was a product of Real Madrid's youth system and, after a quick loan stint in Chile, first appeared with the main side on 2 March 1996, playing nine minutes of a 5–0 home win against UD Salamanca (José García Calvo, another centre back from the youth ranks, also played his first La Liga game that day). He finished the season with 13 appearances, playing a further six matches in the following as the club was 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.
For the start of the 1999–2000 season, 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. That season, the Andalusia side finished 10th and he helped it win the subsequent Intertoto Cup, which eventually led to a UEFA Cup quarterfinal run, with the player appearing in eight complete games.
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