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Sergio Javier Goycochea IPA|ˈzeɾ.xjo
xa.ˈβjeɾ É°oj.ko.ˈʧe.a (born October 17,
1963 in Lima, Buenos Aires (province)|Buenos
Aires, Argentina) is a famous retired Argentinian
Football (soccer)|football goalkeeper. He is
mostly known for being a good penalty kick saver.
That is why he was sometimes nicknamed El
Tapapenales.

In the Wc|1990, he substituted for Nery Pumpido
for the Argentina national football team|Argentine
national team after Pumpido got injured in the
Argentinian team's second game against the Soviet
Union national football team|Soviet team.
Goycochea was the goalkeeper in the penalty
shootout (football)|penalty shootout in the
quarterfinal game against the Yugoslavia national
football team|Yugoslavian team. In the semifinal
game, he saved penalty kicks in the penalty
shootout against the Italy national football
team|Italian national team's Roberto Donadoni and
Aldo Serena. He was also close to saving the
game-winning penalty kick of the 1990 World Cup
final against Germany national football
team|Germany, which Argentina lost 0-1.

On October 10, 1990, Goycochea won the Copa
Libertadores South American finals 3-1 with Club
Olimpia from Asunción, Paraguay, against
Barcelona Sporting Club from Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Goycochea also played a few months in 1991 for the
team :fr:Stade Brestois 29|Stade Brestois 29 from
Brest, France|Brest in the region of Bretagne,
which back then was named Brest Armorique and was
in the French second division and included players
David Ginola, Corentin Martins and Stéphane
Guivarc'h. Nonetheless, The team went bankrupt in
November of that year, and was moved to the third
division and lost its professional-team status.

Goycochea also won the Copa América 1993|1993
Copa América final in Ecuador on July 4, 1993
with Argentina 2-1 against goalkeeper Jorge
Campos' Mexico national football team|Mexican
national team. On the occasion of that 1993 Copa
América tournament, Goycochea appeared on TV
commercials for a Pepsi promotion by PepsiCo's
division in Guayaquil. He also was on TV
commercials for Adidas soccer apparel some years
later.

His last name, Goycochea, which is spelled without
e but which other people of the same genealogy
spell as Goycoechea with e, is derived from the
Basque language, and so Sergio is frequently
nicknamed El Vasco, but also El Goyco.

Goycochea played for the following football teams:
*1983-1988: Club Atlético River Plate|River Plate
(Argentina)
*1988-1990: Millonarios (Colombia)
*1990-1991: Racing Club|Racing (Argentina)
*1991: :fr:Stade Brestois 29|Brest (France)
*1992: Cerro Porteño (Paraguay)
*1992-1993: Club Olimpia|Olimpia (Paraguay)
*1993-1994: River Plate
*1994-1995: Deportivo Mandiyú|Mandiyú
(Argentina)
*1995-1996: Sport Club Internacional|Internacional
(Brazil)
*1996-1997: Vélez Sarsfield (Argentina)
*1997-1998: Newell's Old Boys (Argentina)

For Argentina, Goycochea played in the following
competitions:
*wc|1990 Italy (runners-up) 
*ca|1991 Chile (champions) 
*ca|1993 Mexico (champions) 
*wc|1994 U.S. (quarterfinals, substitute) 

Nowadays, Goycochea is a football journalist.

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Sergio