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{{Short description|Ecuadorian football manager (born 1961)}}
{{family name hatnote|Vizuete|Toapanta|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Sixto Vizuete
| image = NACIONAL VS MUSHUC RUNA (2).jpg
| caption = Vizuete in 2015
| full_name = Sixto Rafael Vizuete Toapanta
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|1|13}}
| birth_place = [[Guaytacama]], [[Latacunga Canton]], Ecuador
| height = 
| position = 
| currentclub = 
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = 
| years1 = 
| clubs1 = [[Deportivo Cotopaxi]]
| caps1 = 
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| manageryears1 = 2007
| managerclubs1 = [[Ecuador national under-17 football team|Ecuador U17]]
| manageryears2 = 2007&ndash;2010
| managerclubs2 = [[Ecuador national football team|Ecuador]]
| manageryears3 = 2010&ndash;2012
| managerclubs3 = [[Ecuador national under-20 football team|Ecuador U20]]
| manageryears4 = 2012&ndash;2013
| managerclubs4 = [[Club Deportivo El Nacional|El Nacional]]
| manageryears5 = 2013
| managerclubs5 = [[Imbabura S.C.|Imbabura]]
| manageryears6 = 2014
| managerclubs6 = [[Ecuador national under-20 football team|Ecuador U20]]
| manageryears7 = 2014–2015
| managerclubs7 = [[Ecuador national football team|Ecuador]]
| manageryears8 = 2015
| managerclubs8 = [[Mushuc Runa S.C.|Mushuc Runa]]
| manageryears9 = 2016
| managerclubs9 = [[Imbabura S.C.|Imbabura]]
| manageryears10 = 2016
| managerclubs10 = [[S.D. Quito|Quito]]
| manageryears11 = 2016
| managerclubs11 = [[C.D. ESPOLI|ESPOLI]]
| manageryears12 = 2017
| managerclubs12 = [[Imbabura S.C.|Imbabura]]
| manageryears13 = 2018–2019
| managerclubs13 = [[Bolivia national under-20 football team|Bolivia U-20]]
| medaltemplates = {{medalCountry|{{ECU}}}}
{{MedalSport |Men's [[Association football|Football]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Games]]}}
{{medalGold|[[2007 Pan American Games|2007 Rio de Janeiro]]|[[Football at the 2007 Pan American Games – Men's tournament|Team competition]]}}
}}

'''Sixto Rafael Vizuete Toapanta''' (born January 13, 1961) is the Ecuadorian football manager.

==Early career==
He played for [[Deportivo Cotopaxi]] which at that time was promoted to the first division in [[Ecuador]]. After his footballing career, he attended [[University of Leipzig]].

==Coaching career==
From 1992 to 1995 he was in charge of many small local sides in Ecuador, until he began to coach the youth ranks of [[Club Deportivo ESPOLI]] of [[Quito]] in 1996. He made a change however when the [[Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol]] designated him the coach of the Ecuador U-17 side. Failing to qualify for the [[2007 U-17 World Cup]], he made up for it by giving Ecuador their first title in their footballing history: they defeated [[Jamaica national football team|Jamaica]] in the final of the [[Football at the 2007 Pan American Games – Men's tournament|2007 Pan American Games]] to win the gold medal.

===Ecuador national team===
He was appointed interim coach of the [[Ecuador national football team|Ecuador national team]] on November 18, 2007 following [[Luis Fernando Suarez]]'s irrevocable decision to resign. At that time, Ecuador had lost all three of their [[2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)|2010 World Cup qualifiers]] which prompted Suarez's resignation. Vizuete gave Ecuador their first qualifying win in his first match as manager, thumping rivals [[Peru national football team|Peru]] 5-1. This caused the majority of [[Ecuador]]ians to trust him, and on 26 February 2008, he was appointed official coach of the national side.<ref>{{cite news |date=2008-02-27 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2008-02-27-374646495_x.htm |title=Interim coach Sixto Vizuete to head Ecuador's national team |publisher=[[USA Today]] |accessdate=2008-02-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=2008-02-27 |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=ap-ecuador-coach&prov=ap&type=lgns |title=Sixto Vizuete will head Ecuador's national team |publisher=[[Yahoo Sports]] |accessdate=2008-02-27}}</ref> Ecuador played its first game with Vizuete as head coach on 26 March 2008 against [[Haiti]], defeating them 3-1.On October 15, 2009, Chile defeated Ecuador in World Cup Qualifying for South Africa 2010 1-0 under Vizuete, Ecuador didn't qualify. But, on February 12, 2011, Vizuete qualified Ecuador's U-20 national team to the Fifa U-20 World cup in Colombia this summer.

===El Nacional===
In April 2012, Vizuete was named the manager of Ecuadorian-club [[Club Deportivo El Nacional|El Nacional]] after the departure of Mario Saralegui the day before.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229065410/http://www.ecuafutbol.org/UI/detalle.aspx?seccion=1&categserie=7&nivel=0&subnivel=0&id=11182&tabla=N |date=dmy |title=Sixto Vizuete profile on Ecuador Federation official site {{in lang|es}} }}
* {{Worldfootball.net|sixto-vizuete}}

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