Oscar Sánchez Rivas

Sanchez became known when in 1971 he played the National Games in Antigua Guatemala. In 1973 he was selected as a youth in the I Afro Latin American Games that were played in Mexico, and that same year he closed his youth participation in the I Central American Sports Games that were held in Ciudad de Guatemala. In 1974 he played in the ¨B¨ category at Laboratorios Jimenez, which was looking for his promotion to the Major League, but it was a year later when Escuintla's fans cheered him as a goal scorer, playing with the Aces of the Minar Tiquisate, was present in the rival goals with 24 goals. In 1976 he began his great trip playing with Comunicaciones, where he played 8 years in his first stage. Together with players like Félix McDonald, Ramón Zanabria and Byron Pérez, they were part of the team that won the CONCACAF Champions Cup 1978 and the 1977-78 league championship; He continued his successful career by finishing third in the Central American Fraternity Cup that year. Sanchez would make both goals of the victory against the great rival, CSD Municipal in the second round of the Central American zone and in the return his team ended up tied to zero. In the third round of Central America (end of the zone), Oscar in the first game scored the winning goal against Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica at minute 2 of the game and in the lap played in Guatemala he was again the figure of the match by remarking two goals at minutes 14th and 31st that would mean the classification…

Sanchez helped the Guatemalan national soccer team qualify for the 1976 Olympic Games, where in the 3–2 victory against Mexico, he scored an Olympic goal. He played two games in the final tournament in Montreal, where Guatemala was eliminated in the first round group. His full international debut occurred on September 26, 1976, at a 1978 World Cup qualification match against Panama, where he scored a hat-trick on a 7–0 win. He also played in the 1982 and 1990 World Cup qualifying campaigns, and overall he scored seven goals in 17 World Cup qualification matches.