Alexander Domínguez

Alexander Domínguez
	Domínguez with Ecuador in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Alexander Domínguez Carabalí
Date of birth	5 June 1987 (age 36)
Place of birth	Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	LDU Quito
Number	22
Youth career
2005	Esmeraldas Club
2006–2009	LDU Quito
Senior career*
Years	Team
2006–2016	LDU Quito
2016–2018	Monterrey
2017–2018	→ Colón (loan)
2018–2021	Vélez Sarsfield
2021	Cerro Largo
2022	Deportes Tolima
2022–	LDU Quito
International career‡
2011–	Ecuador
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 September 2023; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 March 2024

Alexander Domínguez Carabalí (born 5 June 1987) is an Ecuadorian professional

LDU Quito and the Ecuador national team.^[2]

Club career

LDU Quito (2006-2016)

Domínguez played for

José Francisco Cevallos. He won two Ecuadorian Serie A titles, the 2009 Copa Sudamericana, the 2009 Recopa Sudamericana and the 2010 Recopa Sudamericana.^[3]

Domínguez is one of the top 300 goalkeepers in the world, the third highest ranked Ecuadorian, and the highest ranked active Ecuadorian in terms of time spent without conceding a goal. From 2 September 2007 to 28 October 2007, he went 719 minutes without conceding a goal. He is nicknamed "Dida", after the

Brazilian keeper of the same name.^[4]

Clúb de Fútbol Monterrey (2016-2017)

On 22 June 2016, it was confirmed that Domínguez would be joining Monterrey.^[5]

Club Atlético Colón (2017-2018)

Vélez Sarsfield (2018-2021)

Cerro Largo (2021-2022)

Dominguez joined Uruguayan club Cerro Largo as a free agent on 20 August 2021.^[6] He played his first league match on 13 September 2021.^[7]

Deportes Tolima (2022)

LDU Quito (2023- )

International career

Domínguez is a former Ecuadorian youth international, who represented the country at the 2007 South American U-20 Championship.^[3]

Domínguez received his first call-ups for the senior

cap on 26 March 2011 in a 2–0 friendly defeat to Colombia.^[3] At the 2011 Copa América, he served as back-up to Marcelo Elizaga

.

He established himself as Ecuador's first choice goalkeeper during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, making 12 appearances for La Tri.^[3]

In June 2014, Domínguez was named in Ecuador's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.^[8] On 15 June, he made his FIFA World Cup debut in a 2–1 defeat to Switzerland at the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha in Brasília.^[9]

On 25 June 2014, Domínguez was named

Man of the Match vs. France in Ecuador's final match at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Domínguez kept a clean sheet and stopped shots from the likes of Karim Benzema, Paul Pogba, and Olivier Giroud.^[10]^[11]^[12]

In November 2022, Domínguez was named in Ecuador's squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup held in Qatar. He played a fundamental role in the harmonization of the group of players, and was a substitute for all three group stages matches against, Qatar, Netherlands and Senegal.