Sergio Ibarra

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Sergio Ibarra
Full name	Sergio Ramón Ibarra Guzmán
Date of birth	January 11, 1973 (1973-01-11) (age 35)
Place of birth	Río Cuarto, Argentina
Height	183cm
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Melgar FBC
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991 1992 1993-1996 1997 1998-1999 2000 2000 2001-2002 2003 2003 2004-2005 2006 2006 2007 2008-	Sportivo Atenas Ciclista Lima Alianza Atlético Municipal Sport Boys Deportivo Wanka C.D. Águila Universitario Alianza Atlético Unión Huaral Estudiantes de Medicina Cienciano Once Caldas Sport Boys Melgar FBC	14 (6)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Sergio Ramón Ibarra (born January 11, 1973 in Río Cuarto, Córdoba Province) is a football striker from Argentina, who obtained the Peruvian nationality. He is nicknamed "Checho" and/or "Manteca".

Ibarra is famous for scoring many goals despite having what many consider as very limited technical abilities. He is very often the top scorer of his team. Although born in Argentina, Ibarra has played during almost all of his career in Peru, where he first moved at age 21 to join the ranks of Ciclista Lima in the first division, in 1992.

His biggest claim to fame was in 2004 when he won the Copa Sudamericana against River Plate and the Recopa against Boca Juniors in the same year as part of Cienciano. That same year the Argentine football magazine El Gráfico declared that he was the Argentine player who had scored the most goals worldwide (21), one more than Carlos Tévez, Andrés Silvera, and Luis Bonnet, and two more than Javier Saviola.

On March 2, 2008 Ibarra broke the all time scoring record in the Peruvian league, netting his 193rd goal in a 1-0 win over Cienciano. He is the Peruvian League Top Scorer with 199 goals^[1]