Sergio Ibarra
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Sergio Ibarra Full name: Sergio Ramón Ibarra Nicknames: Checho, Manteca Birthplace: Cordoba, Argentina Nationality: Argentina, Peru (naturalized) Footballer
Striker who is famous for scoring many goals despite having what many consider as very limited technical abilities. He is very often the top scorer of his team. Although born in Argentina, Ibarra has played during almost all of his career in Peru, where he first moved at age 21 to join the ranks of Ciclista Lima in the first division, in 1992. His biggest claim to fame was in 2004 when he won the Copa Sudamericana against River Plate and the Recopa against Boca Juniors in the same year as part of Cienciano, for whom he was the top goal-scorer but rarely a starting player. That same year the Argentine football magazine El Gráfico declared that he was the Argentine player who had scored the most goals worldwide (21), one more than Carlos Tévez, Andrés Silvera, and Luis Bonnett, and two more than Javier Saviola.
At present, at 171 goals throughout his career, he is close to top the record of top-scoring player of all time in the Peruvian league (173).
[edit] Trajectory
1992: Ciclista Lima 1995-1996: Alianza Atlético 1997: Deportivo Municipal (Peru) 1998-1999: Sport Boys 2000: Alianza Atlético 2001: Universitario de Deportes 2002: Alianza Atlético 2003: Unión Huaral 2004-2005: Cienciano 2006: Once Caldas (Colombia) 2006-present: José Gálvez
