Sergio Ibarra

Football player infobox
playername = Sergio Ibarra


fullname = Sergio Ramón Ibarra Guzmán
height = 183cm
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1973|1|11
cityofbirth = Río Cuarto
countryofbirth = Argentina
currentclub = Melgar FBC
clubnumber = 9
position = Striker
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1991
1992
1993-1996
1997
1998-1999
2000
2000
2001-2002
2003
2003
2004-2005
2006
2006
2007
2008-
clubs = Sportivo Atenas
Ciclista Lima
Alianza Atlético
Municipal
Sport Boys
Deportivo Wanka
C.D. Águila
Universitario
Alianza Atlético
Unión Huaral
Estudiantes de Medicina
Cienciano
Once Caldas
Sport Boys
Melgar FBC
caps(goals) =
pcupdate = July 2007

Sergio Ramón Ibarra (born January 11 1973 in Río Cuarto, Córdoba Province) is a football striker from Argentina, who obtained the Peruvian nationality. He is nicknamed "Checho" and/or "Manteca".

Ibarra 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. 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 Bonnet, and two more than Javier Saviola.

On March 2 2008 Ibarra broke the all time scoring record in the Peruvian league, netting his 193rd goal in a 1-0 win over Cienciano. He is the Peruvian League Top Scorer with 205 goals [ [http://es.eurosport.yahoo.com/01042008/21/argentino-sergio-ibarra-bate-record-goleador-historico-peru.html Eurosport - Sergio Ibarra bate el récord de goleador histórico en Perú] es icon]

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