Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born July 11, 1958), popularly nicknamed Pentapichichi, Hugol, is a former coach of the Mexican National Football Team from February 7, 2007 to March 31, 2008. He played for four European clubs, including Real Madrid. As a member of the Mexico national team, he participated in three World Cups.
Hugo Sánchez played twelve seasons in the Spanish Primera División and is the second highest goalscorer in the history of that league. He also played for the Mexico national team for 17 years and participated in the World Cups of 1978, 1986, and 1994. He won the Pichichi Trophy five times, four of them consecutively, a record second only to Telmo Zarra's six trophies.
As a coach, he won two championships as head coach of the club Universidad Nacional and briefly with Necaxa, both teams in the Mexican Primera División. He also had a sixteen-month stint with the Mexican national team, but was fired on March 31, 2008.
In 1999, the IFFHS voted him the 26th best footballer of the 20th Century, and the best footballer from the CONCACAF region.(Wikipedia)
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