Mauricio Alberto Alfaro Valladares (born 13 February 1956) is a former soccer professional player from El Salvador, who represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.[4][5][6][7][8]
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Mauricio Alberto "El Tuco" Alfaro Valladares | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 13 February 1956 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zacatecoluca, El Salvador | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1976–1977 | CD Dragón | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1978–1979, 1982 | Platense | |||||||||||||
| 1980–1982 | Alianza FC | |||||||||||||
| 1983–1987 | CD FAS | |||||||||||||
| 1987–1991 | Cojutepeque FC | |||||||||||||
| 1991 | Platense | |||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1977–1989 | El Salvador[1] | 41 | (3) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Platense | |||||||||||||
| 1994–1996 | San Rafael FC | |||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Municipal | |||||||||||||
| 2000–2003 | Telecom FC | |||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | Platense | |||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Coca Cola | |||||||||||||
| 2009–2014 | El Salvador U-21 | |||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | El Salvador (assistant coach / interim coach) | |||||||||||||
| 2011–2014 | El Salvador U-20 | |||||||||||||
| 2015 | Atlético Comalapa | |||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Quequeisque | |||||||||||||
| 2016 | CD Municipal Limeño[2][3] | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | CD Atlético Marte | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Club career edit
Nicknamed El Tuco, Alfaro started his career at Platense and later joined Salvadoran giants FAS in 1983.
With FAS he won a league title in 1984. He finished his career with Cojutepeque, with whom he lost the 1988/89 national league final to Luis Ángel Firpo.
International career edit
He made his debut for El Salvador in 1979, and has earned over 15 caps.
He has represented his country in 10 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played in the 1982 FIFA World Cup final group stage match, against Argentina.[9]
Managerial career edit
His first job was at Platense, where he was dismissed in January 2005.
He has coached varies clubs in the lower leagues of El Salvador, such as Telecom, Coca-Cola, Municipal and San Rafael F.C..
He was coached of El Salvador U-21 and El Salvador U-20, who he helped qualify for the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico and the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
He helped to El Salvador U-20 become the first Salvadoran team to win a game at a FIFA U-20 World Cup, by defeating the Australia team 2–1.
Later, he coached in the Primera División de El Salvador for the first time in 2016, leading the recently promoted Municipal Limeño in the Apertura 2016 campaign.
He later resigned, which came as a shock as he amassed a respectable five wins and six draws from seventeen games, he cited crowd problems and clashes with several players, as the main reasons.
Honors edit
Playing edit
Club edit
- Primera División Winner (1): 1984
Manager edit
National Team edit
Third Place
Managerial stats edit
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | % | ||||
| Municipal Limeño | El Salvador | July 2016 | November 2016 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 29.4 |
References edit
- ^ https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/elsal-recintlp.html
- ^ "Mauricio Alfaro: "El objetivo es hacer un papel digno en el torneo" – Culebrita Macheteada – Futbol El Salvador". Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ ""Tuco" Alfaro renunció por ofensas a su familia".
- ^ "Alfaro es el nuevo técnico del Limeño".
- ^ "Alfaro dirigirá hoy ante el UES con problemas de salud".
- ^ "Mauricio Alfaro: "Estoy molesto, esto se tiene que solucionar"". /www.elsalvador.com. 14 October 2014.
- ^ "Hoy se cumplen cinco años de la clasificación de El Salvador al Mundial Sub 20 Turquía 2013".
- ^ "Mauricio Alfaro, sin tapujos".
- ^ Mauricio Alfaro – FIFA competition record (archived)
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