Óscar Whalley

Óscar Alexandre Whalley Guardado (born 29 March 1994) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Greek club OFI Crete F.C. as a goalkeeper.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Whalley and the second or maternal family name is Guardado.
Óscar Whalley
Personal information
Full name Óscar Alexander Whalley Guardado
Date of birth (1994-03-29) 29 March 1994
Place of birth Zaragoza, Spain
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 OFI
Number 1
Youth career
UD Amistad
2006–2013 Zaragoza
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2015 Zaragoza B 26 (0)
2014–2016 Zaragoza 22 (0)
2015–2016 → Huesca (loan) 15 (0)
2016–2018 Sporting Gijón 1 (0)
2018–2019 Aarhus 12 (0)
2019– OFI 1 (0)
National team
2014 Spain U21 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:03, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Club career

Born in Zaragoza, Aragon from an English father and a Mexican mother,[1] Whalley spent his first season as a senior with Real Zaragoza's reserves in Tercera División. On 31 May 2014, as first-choice Leo Franco declared his desire to leave the country and understudy Pablo Alcolea was injured, he played his first match as a professional, starting in a 1–1 home draw against Sporting de Gijón for the Segunda División championship.[2]

The following campaign, Whalley played 19 games as Zaragoza came sixth, and a further one on 11 June 2015 as they lost their play-off semi-final first leg 0–3 at home to Girona FC.[3] He was subsequently dropped for Bono for the rest of the tournament, as the team won the tie on away goals and lost the final by the same rule to UD Las Palmas.

On 10 July 2015, Whalley was loaned to neighbouring SD Huesca also in the second level.[4] On 8 August of the following year he signed with La Liga club Sporting Gijón, as third-choice behind Iván Cuéllar and Diego Mariño.[5]

Whalley moved abroad for the first time in his career on 12 June 2018, joining Danish Superliga side Aarhus Gymnastikforening.[6] On 13 August 2019, he left for OFI Crete F.C. in the Superleague Greece.[7]

International career

Whalley won his only cap for Spain at under-21 level on 12 November 2014, playing the second half of the 1–4 friendly loss to Belgium in Ferrol.[8]

References
  1. El portero Óscar Whalley se asoma a la titularidad del Real Zaragoza (Goalkeeper Óscar Whalley eyes Zaragoza's starting spot); Heraldo de Aragón, 30 May 2014 (in Spanish)
  2. Los de Abelardo salvan un punto pero no aseguran los 'playoffs' (Abelardo's men rescue a point but can not ensure the playoffs); Marca, 31 May 2014 (in Spanish)
  3. Ferrer, Pedro Luis (11 June 2015). "El Girona sentencia en la noche negra de Óscar Whalley" [Girona sentence in Óscar Whalley's black night] (in Spanish). Diario AS. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  4. Acuerdo entre Real Zaragoza y S.D. Huesca para la cesión de Óscar Whalley (Agreement between Real Zaragoza and S.D. Huesca for the loan of Óscar Whalley); Real Zaragoza, 10 July 2015 (in Spanish)
  5. Rivera, Víctor (8 August 2016). "El Sporting cierra la portería con la llegada de Whalley" [Sporting complete their goal with the arrival of Whalley] (in Spanish). La Nueva España. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  6. "AGF henter målmand i Spanien" [AGF sign goalkeeper in Spain] (in Danish). Aarhus Gymnastikforening. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  7. "Bekræftet: AGF sender keeper til Kreta" [Confirmed: AGF send goalkeeper to Crete] (in Danish). Bold. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  8. Cudeiro, Juan Luis (12 November 2014). "Tsunami belga a la nueva ola española" [Belgian tsunami to the new Spanish wave] (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
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