Hugo Ayala
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| Full name | Hugo Ayala Castro | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | March 31, 1987 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre Back | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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UANL | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 2000–2002 | Morelia | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2006 | Atlas | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 2004–2010 | Atlas | 86 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2010– | UANL | 215 | (4) | ||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Mexico U20 | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2009– | Mexico | 28 | (0) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 September 2016. |
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Hugo Ayala Castro (March 31, 1987) is a Mexican footballer who plays for the Liga MX club Tigres UANL.
A centre back, Ayala has been a regular for the Mexico national football team.
Hugo Ayala started his professional career with Atlas. He made his official debut in 2006 as a starter against C.D. Guadalajara. Although Atlas lost 3–1 he became an often used substitute ending the season. In the next season he starting showing great talent in defending and became a starter in Atlas's defensive line up, leading Atlas all the way to the quarter finals to face Club América, but lost to them in a global score of (7–4). Throughout his career with Atlas he was mostly used as a substitute until the coach, Ricardo La Volpe, took his place as coach of Atlas. Coach La Volpe then started having confidence in Ayala, and made Ayala a starter and captain for Atlas.
On 2010, he arrived to Tigres UANL and by 2011 he already was the starter centre-back along with Juninho, both key players for the Apertura 2011 championship. Ayala was named best defender of the Apertura 2011 season alongside teammate Jorge Torres Nilo. Ayala, a starter in Tigres since 2011, later would become champion with the team in the Apertura 2015 and Apertura 2016 seasons besides runner-up of the 2015 Copa Libertadores.
Under new coach Juan Carlos Osorio, Hugo Ayala hopes to establish himself as a regular call-up for El Tri.
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