Mauricio Alfaro

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]

Mauricio Alfaro
Personal information
Full nameMauricio Alberto "El Tuco" Alfaro Valladares
Date of birth (1956-02-13) 13 February 1956 (age 68)
Place of birthZacatecoluca, El Salvador
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)Midfielder
Youth career
1976–1977CD Dragón
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1978–1979, 1982Platense
1980–1982Alianza FC
1983–1987CD FAS
1987–1991Cojutepeque FC
1991Platense
International career
1977–1989El Salvador[1]41(3)
Managerial career
1992–1993Platense
1994–1996San Rafael FC
1997–1999Municipal
2000–2003Telecom FC
2003–2005Platense
2005–2006Coca Cola
2009–2014El Salvador U-21
2010–2012El Salvador (assistant coach / interim coach)
2011–2014El Salvador U-20
2015Atlético Comalapa
2015–2016Quequeisque
2016CD Municipal Limeño[2][3]
2019CD Atlético Marte
Medal record
Representing  El Salvador (as manager)
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Third place2013 Turkey
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

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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

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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

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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

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Playing

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Club

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FAS

Manager

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National Team

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Third Place

Managerial stats

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TeamNatFromToRecord
GWDL%
Municipal LimeñoEl SalvadorJuly 2016November 20161756629.4

References

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  1. ^ https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/elsal-recintlp.html
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ ""Tuco" Alfaro renunció por ofensas a su familia".
  4. ^ "Alfaro es el nuevo técnico del Limeño".
  5. ^ "Alfaro dirigirá hoy ante el UES con problemas de salud".
  6. ^ "Mauricio Alfaro: "Estoy molesto, esto se tiene que solucionar"". /www.elsalvador.com. 14 October 2014.
  7. ^ "Hoy se cumplen cinco años de la clasificación de El Salvador al Mundial Sub 20 Turquía 2013".
  8. ^ "Mauricio Alfaro, sin tapujos".
  9. ^ Mauricio AlfaroFIFA competition record (archived)