Santiago Cañizares
Cañizares playing with Valencia in 2006
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| Full name | José Santiago Cañizares Ruiz | |||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 18 December 1969 | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Madrid, Spain | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1985–1988 | Real Madrid | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | Real Madrid C | |||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Real Madrid B | 35 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1988–1992 | Real Madrid | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | → Elche (loan) | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | → Mérida (loan) | 38 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | Celta | 74 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1994–1998 | Real Madrid | 41 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1998–2008 | Valencia | 305 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 500 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1986 | Spain U16 | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1987 | Spain U17 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1986–1988 | Spain U18 | 8 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | Spain U19 | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Spain U20 | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Spain U21 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Spain U23 | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1993–2006 | Spain | 46 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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José Santiago Cañizares Ruiz (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse sanˈtjaɣo kaɲiˈθaɾes ˈrwiθ]; born 18 December 1969) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
He began his career in the Real Madrid academy, being mostly a backup and also being loaned twice. He moved to Valencia in 1998, appearing in 418 official games over the next decade and winning several major titles, including two La Liga championships and the 2004 UEFA Cup.
Cañizares represented Spain in three World Cups and as many European Championships, and won a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In 2004, Peter Schmeichel said that he regarded him as the "finest goalkeeper in world football".
Born in Madrid but raised in Puertollano, Castile-La Mancha, Cañizares started his career with Real Madrid in 1988, playing initially with its C-team. He started professionally with Elche CF, CP Mérida and Celta de Vigo, making his first La Liga appearance with the Galicians in the 1992–93 season, missing only two league games during his tenure and subsequently returning to Real Madrid.
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