{{short description|Panamanian footballer (born 1989)}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Ernesto Sinclair | image = | fullname = Ernesto Arturo Sinclair Chávez | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1989|3|10}} | birth_place = Panama City, Panama | height = 1.67 m | currentclub = | clubnumber = | position = Midfielder | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Colo-Colo | years1 = 2008 | clubs1 = Estudiantes | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 2008–2009 | clubs2 = → Palestino (loan) | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = 2010 | clubs3 = Arlesey Town | caps3 = | goals3 = | years4 = 2010–2011 | clubs4 = Sporting San Miguelito | caps4 = 11 | goals4 = 0 | years5 = 2012–2013 | clubs5 = Alianza | caps5 = 16 | goals5 = 1 | years6 = 2013–2015 | clubs6 = Independiente | caps6 = 60 | goals6 = 15 | years7 = 2016 | clubs7 = Plaza Amador | caps7 = 10 | goals7 = 4 | years8 = 2016–2017 | clubs8 = Mineros de Guayana | caps8 = 14 | goals8 = 4 | years9 = 2017–2018 | clubs9 = Plaza Amador | caps9 = 40 | goals9 = 9 | years10 = 2018–2019 | clubs10 = Costa del Este | caps10 = 19 | goals10 = 9 | years11 = 2019–2020 | clubs11 = Sporting San Miguelito | caps11 = 25 | goals11 = 7 | years12 = 2020 | clubs12 = Costa del Este | caps12 = 10 | goals12 = 2 | years13 = 2021 | clubs13 = Universitario | caps13 = 8 | goals13 = 0 | years14 = 2022 | clubs14 = Tauro | caps14 = 25 | goals14 = 1 | nationalyears1 = 2019– | nationalteam1 = Panama | nationalcaps1 = 1 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | pcupdate = 20:07, 25 December 2023 (UTC) | ntupdate = 27 January 2019 }}
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'''Ernesto Arturo Sinclair Chávez''' (born March 10, 1989) is a Panamanian footballer.
==Club career== Sinclair moved to Chile with his parents when only 11 years, then played with Argentinian side Estudiantes<ref name=Prensa>[http://impresa.prensa.com/deportes/goleador-CAI_0_3805119652.html ERNESTO SINCLAIR El goleador del CAI] - La Prensa {{in lang|es}}</ref> and in the summer 2008 he returned to Chile, where he played in the Colo-Colo and Magallanes youth teams, to play on loan for Palestino.<ref>[http://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/deportes/futbol/palestino/panameno-ernesto-sinclair-es-el-nuevo-refuerzo-de-palestino/2008-07-17/210107.html Panameño Ernesto Sinclair es el nuevo refuerzo de Palestino] - Cooperativa {{in lang|es}}</ref>
He only returned to Panama to join Sporting San Miguelito from English lower league outfit Arlesey Town, then Alianza and later moved to Independiente.<ref name=Prensa/>
==International== He made his debut for Panama on 27 January 2019 in a friendly against the United States, as a starter.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Major League Soccer|url=https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2019-01-27-us-mens-national-team-vs-panama/recap|title=USA v Panama game report|date=27 January 2019|access-date=2019-01-28|archive-date=2019-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507143220/https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2019-01-27-us-mens-national-team-vs-panama/recap|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Honours== ===Player=== ;Palestino * Primera División de Chile (1): Runner-up 2008 Clausura
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.playerhistory.com/player/210422/ Ernesto Sinclair] at playerhistory.com * {{Soccerway|ernesto-sinclair/124127}} * {{BDFA|<!-- ERNESTO-SINCLAIR- -->69201|Ernesto Sinclair}} * {{NFT player|73342}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sinclair, Ernesto}} Category:1989 births Category:Living people Category:Footballers from Panama City Category:Men's association football midfielders Category:Panamanian men's footballers Category:21st-century Panamanian sportsmen Category:Panamanian expatriate men's footballers Category:Panama men's international footballers Category:Estudiantes de La Plata footballers Category:Club Deportivo Palestino footballers Category:Arlesey Town F.C. players Category:Sporting San Miguelito players Category:Alianza F.C. (Panama) players Category:C.D. Plaza Amador players Category:A.C.C.D. Mineros de Guayana players Category:Potros del Este players Category:Club Deportivo Universitario players Category:Tauro F.C. players Category:Liga Panameña de Fútbol players Category:Panamanian expatriate sportspeople in Chile Category:Panamanian expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Category:Panamanian expatriate sportspeople in Venezuela Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Chile Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina Category:Expatriate men's footballers in England Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Venezuela {{Panama-footy-bio-stub}}