Mauricio Alfaro

Mauricio Alfaro

Personal information
Full name	Mauricio Alberto "El Tuco" Alfaro Valladares
Date of birth	(1956-02-13) 13 February 1956 (age 67)
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 Representing   El Salvador (as manager) FIFA U-20 World Cup 2013 Turkey
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alfaroand the second or maternal family name is Valladares.

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]}

Club career

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

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

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

Club

FAS

• Primera División Winner (1): 1984

Manager

National Team

Third Place

Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	%
Municipal Limeño	El Salvador	July 2016	November 2016	17	5	6	6	29.4

References

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 Alfaro – FIFA competition record (archived)