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Javier Saavedra - Wikipedia

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Javier Saavedra

Personal information

Full name

Javier Saavedra Vázquez

Date of birth

March 13, 1973 (age 51)

Place of birth

Peribán, Mexico

Height

1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Position(s)

Midfielder

Senior career*

Years

Team

Apps

(Gls)

1996–1998

Toros Neza

(8)

1998–2010

UANL

297

(22)

2002–2003

→ Morelia (loan)

(12)

2006

→ Jaguares (loan)

(3)

2009

→ Indios (loan)

(1)

2010

→ Necaxa (loan)

(1)

2011

Irapauto

(0)

2012–2015

San Antonio Scorpions

(2)

International career^‡

1997–2002

Mexico

(0)

Medal record

Representing Mexico

	Copa America	1997

*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of October 14, 2013
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of August 22, 2007

Javier Saavedra Vázquez (born 13 March 1973) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career

Saavedra started his career in 1996 with Toros Neza, where he reached a final. He was transferred to Tigres in 2000, and then played for Morelia for a short while in 2002, returning to Tigres in 2003, moving to Chiapas for a short period in 2006, until finally returning to Tigres in 2007.

He has reached 5 finals, two of those finals have been with Tigres and another two with Morelia.

Saavedra has been one of the best players even when the team is not playing good at all, Saavedra was bench at the start of the season this year, he didn't start any games until the fifth game and in his comeback game he got 2 assists and one goal defeating the team that has been marked as "the best in mexico" 3–2, since then he has started all games and now he has 4 assists in 4 games which makes him one of the most efficient players in the team and with him, the team has 7 points out of 12 possible, and before that the team only had 1 point out of 15. On May 2, 2009, Saavedra scored the game-winning goal against Cruz Azul, the goal saved Indios from relegating to the Primera División A.

On May 8, 2010, Javier won a bi-championship with Necaxa and helped it return to Mexico's First Division.

He played for the Mexico national team during the administration of Manuel Lapuente.

Saavedra signed with expansion San Antonio Scorpions FC of the North American Soccer League on January 24, 2012.^[1] He retired in January 2015.

References

^ "Standings". NASL. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. ^{[failed verification]}

External links

Javier Saavedra (Javier Saavedra Vázquez) – Liga MX stats at MedioTiempo.com (archived) (in Spanish)
Javier Saavedra at National-Football-Teams.com

v t e Mexico squad – 1997 Copa América third place
1 Ríos 2 Suárez 3 Sánchez 4 Villa 5 Davino 6 Lara 7 García 8 Ramírez 9 Chávez 10 Rizo 11 Blanco 12 Pineda 13 Pardo 14 Romero 15 Hernández 16 Jiménez 17 Palencia 18 Saavedra 19 Gabriel 20 Abundis 21 Sancho 22 Zuñiga Coach: Milutinović