Alexander Domínguez Carabalí (born June 5, 1987) is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Categoría Primera A club Deportes Tolima and the Ecuador national team.[2]
![]() Domínguez with Ecuador in 2015 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alexander Domínguez Carabalí | ||
Date of birth | (1987-06-05) 5 June 1987 (age 35) | ||
Place of birth | Esmeraldas, Ecuador | ||
Height | 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Deportes Tolima | ||
Number | 22 | ||
Youth career | |||
2006 | Esmeraldas Club | ||
2006–2009 | LDU Quito | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2006–2016 | LDU Quito | 292 | (0) |
2016–2018 | Monterrey | 9 | (0) |
2017–2018 | → Colón (loan) | 27 | (0) |
2018–2021 | Vélez Sarsfield | 29 | (0) |
2021 | Cerro Largo | 13 | (0) |
2022– | Deportes Tolima | 3 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2011– | Ecuador | 63 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of November 13, 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of January 29, 2022 |
Domínguez played for L.D.U. Quito from 2006 to 2016, taking over the starting spot from José Francisco Cevallos. He won two Ecuadorian Serie A titles, the 2009 Copa Sudamericana, the 2009 Recopa Sudamericana and the 2010 Recopa Sudamericana .[3]
Domínguez is one of the top 300 goalkeepers in the world, the third highest ranked Ecuadorian, and the highest ranked active Ecuadorian in terms of time spent without conceding a goal. From 2 September 2007 to 28 October 2007, he went 719 minutes without conceding a goal.[citation needed] He is nicknamed "Dida", after the Brazilian keeper of the same name.[4]
On June 22, 2016, it was confirmed that Domínguez would be joining Monterrey.[5]
Dominguez joined Uruguayan club Cerro Largo as a free agent on August 20, 2021.[6] He played his first league match on September 13, 2021.[7]
Domínguez is a former Ecuadorian youth international, who represented the country at the 2007 South American U-20 Championship.[3]
Domínguez received his first call-ups for the senior Ecuador national football team in May 2010 for friendlies against Mexico and South Korea. However, he remained an unused substitute. Because of club-related commitments, he would not receive another call-up until February 2011 for a friendly against Honduras. Again, he was an unused substitute. Manager Reinaldo Rueda finally gave Domínguez his first cap on 26 March 2011 in a 2–0 friendly defeat to Colombia.[3] At the 2011 Copa América, he served as back-up to Marcelo Elizaga.
He established himself as Ecuador's first choice goalkeeper during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, making 12 appearances for La Tri.[3]
In June 2014, Domínguez was named in Ecuador's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[8] On 15 June, he made his FIFA World Cup debut in a 2–1 defeat to Switzerland at the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha in Brasília.[9]
On June 25, 2014, Domínguez was named Man of the Match vs. France in Ecuador's final match at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Domínguez kept a clean sheet and stopped shots from the likes of Karim Benzema, Paul Pogba, and Olivier Giroud.[10][11][12]
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