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Guillermo Ochoa

Mexican footballer (born 1985)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 17, 2026
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Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña, commonly known as Memo Ochoa, is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was a full international with the Mexico national team, which he captained, and is widely considered to be the greatest Mexican goalkeeper, and one of the best goalkeepers of all time.

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The public source identifies “Guillermo Ochoa” as mexican footballer (born 1985). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Guillermo, Ochoa and Mexican.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 52-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Guillermo, Ochoa and Mexican providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Guillermo Ochoa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.