 Sánchez represented the Guatemala national football team at the Olympic Games and in three FIFA World Cup qualification processes.H is the second highest goalscorer of all time in the Guatemalan league and has been catalogued by journalists of the region as one of the best players in the history of the nation's football.In a 1999 poll by the IFFHS, he was voted the best Guatemalan footballer of the 20th Century and among the best 20 in CONCACAF.