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]

Alexander Domínguez

Domínguez with Ecuador in 2015
Personal information
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

Club career

LDU Quito

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]

Monterrey

On June 22, 2016, it was confirmed that Domínguez would be joining Monterrey.[5]

Cerro Largo

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]

International career

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]

Honors

L.D.U. Quito

• Serie A (2): 2007, 2010
• Recopa Sudamericana (2): 2009, 2010
• Copa Sudamericana (1): 2009

References

External links

• Domínguez's FEF player card (in Spanish)

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