Editing Hugo Sánchez (section)

==International career==
Sánchez made 58 appearances for [[Mexico national football team|Mexico]] between 1977 and 1994, scoring 29 goals.<ref name="Mexico - Record International Players"/> Prior to representing the senior side, as a teenager he represented Mexico at the [[Football at the 1975 Pan American Games|1975 Pan American Games]] on home soil, where he won a gold medal,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/panam75det.html |title=Panamerican Games 1975 (Mexico) - Match Details |author1=Neil Morrison |date=12 December 2008 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref> and at the [[Football at the Summer Olympics|1976 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="FIFA"/> He participated in three [[FIFA World Cup]] tournaments, making eight World Cup appearances in total, and scoring once.<ref name="FIFA"/> Also, with Chilean [[Elías Figueroa]] holds the unique distinction of playing in three alternate tournaments [[1978 FIFA World Cup|1978]]-[[1986 FIFA World Cup|1986]]-[[1994 FIFA World Cup|1994]]. He helped Mexico win the [[1977 CONCACAF Championship]] to seal qualification for the [[1978 FIFA World Cup]] in Argentina;<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tables/78q.html |title=World Cup 1978 Qualifying |author1=Karel Stokkermans |author2=Sergio Henrique Jarreta |date=3 January 2000 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref> at the age of 19, he took part in the final tournament, where Mexico lost all three of their group games and suffered a first round elimination.<ref name="FIFA"/>

After Mexico failed to [[1982 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)|qualify for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain]], Sánchez was a part of the Mexico team that reached the quarter-finals of the [[1986 FIFA World Cup|1986 World Cup]] on home soil, losing out to eventual runners-up [[West Germany national football team|West Germany]] in a penalty shootout.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=714/match=575/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003232826/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=714/match=575/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 October 2015 |title=Germany Fr (0-0) Mexico |publisher=FIFA.com |access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref>  He scored his only World Cup goal during his nation's opening match of the tournament on 3 June, the winning goal in a 2–1 victory over [[Belgium national football team|Belgium]],<ref name="FIFA"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=308/match=428/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721185913/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=308/match=428/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 July 2015 |title=Belgium (1-2) Mexico |publisher=FIFA.com |access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref> although he also missed a penalty in Mexico's second group match against [[Paraguay national football team|Paraguay]], and was later booked, causing him to miss the final group match.<ref name="FIFA"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/08/sports/paraguay-ties-mexico-1-1.html |title=Paraguay Ties Mexico, 1-1 |newspaper=The New York Times |first=George |last=Vecsey |date=8 June 1986 |access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref> Four years later, however, Mexico once again missed out on the final tournament as they were suspended from the [[1990 FIFA World Cup]] in Italy.<ref name="FIFA"/>

Despite his advancing age, he later played a key role in helping Mexico to the [[1993 Copa América Final|final]] of the [[1993 Copa América]], at the age of 35; he scored once in a 2–0 victory over [[Ecuador national football team|Ecuador]] in the semi-finals, although Mexico eventually finished as runners-up to [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]].<ref name="FIFA"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tables/93safull.html |title=Copa América 1993 |author1=Martín Tabeira |date=31 October 2013 |access-date=16 January 2017 |url-status=live |website=[[RSSSF]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321081724/http://rsssf.com/tables/93safull.html |archive-date=21 March 2009 }}</ref> Sánchez later also appeared at the [[1994 FIFA World Cup]] in the United States, his final major tournament, where Mexico suffered a round of 16 elimination; he made his only appearance in the tournament on 19 June, in Mexico's opening match of the competition, a 1–0 defeat to [[Norway national football team|Norway]].<ref name="FIFA"/>