Facundo Sava

Facundo Sava

Personal information
Full name	Facundo Sava
Date of birth	7 March 1974
Place of birth	Ituzaingó, Argentina
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 ^1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Centre forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1993–1996	Ferro Carril Oeste	80	(9)
1996–1997	Boca Juniors	7	(0)
1997–2002	Gimnasia (LP)	182	(67)
2002–2004	Fulham	27	(6)
2004–2005	Celta Vigo	26	(3)
2005–2006	Lorca	38	(7)
2006–2008	Racing Club	66	(29)
2008–2009	Arsenal de Sarandí	21	(3)
2009–2010	Quilmes	21	(4)
2010	Ferro Carril Oeste	6	(2)
Total		474	(130)
Teams managed
2012	San Martín de San Juan
2013	Unión de Santa Fe
2014–2015	O'Higgins
2015	Quilmes
2016–	Racing Club
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Facundo Sava (born 7 March 1974) is an Argentine former footballer. He played 17 years of professional football, mainly in Argentina, but also with spells in Spain and England. Outside his country, Sava is best known for his goal celebration where he donned a mask which was stored in one of his socks.^[1]

Playing career

Sava started his career in Ferro Carril Oeste in 1993. In 1996, he moved to Boca Juniors. It wasn't long after his move to Boca, that he was sold on to Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata. In 2002, Sava was sold to Fulham for £2 million. Whilst at Fulham he is remembered for scoring a dramatic late equaliser against Middlesbrough^[2] and scoring twice as Fulham beat Liverpool.^[3] From there, he enjoyed a loan spell to Celta de Vigo. After a permanent move to Celta, he helped them secure promotion to the Spanish first division. He then moved to another Spanish second division team; Lorca Deportiva, but returned to Argentina in the middle of 2006 to play for Racing Club.

In 2008 he joined Arsenal de Sarandí and, the following season, he helped Quilmes achieve promotion to the Argentine Primera División. However, he did not stay with Quilmes in the Primera, instead returning to his first club, Ferro Carril Oeste, after 14 years.^[4] With Ferro, he played 6 games in the 2010–11 season of the Primera B Nacional, before deciding to retire. He played his last game in an away draw against Belgrano on 11 September 2010.^[5]

Coaching career

On 23 April 2012, Sava took his first coaching job as the head coach at San Martín de San Juan.^[6]

References

1. The Guardian
2. "Late Fulham deny Boro". BBC. 24 August 2002. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
3. "Sava stuns Liverpool". BBC. 23 November 2002. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
4. "Sava acordó su regreso a Ferro". Clarín (in Spanish). 20 July 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
5. Damián Cáceres (11 October 2010). "El psicólogo del fútbol". Cancha Llena (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 October 2010.
6. "Sava, el nuevo entrenador". San Martín de San Juan official site (in Spanish). 23 April 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2012.

External links

• Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (Spanish)
• Guardian statistics
• Statistics at ESPN Soccernet