Mauricio Alonso Rodríguez
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| Mauricio "Pipo" Rodríguez | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Mauricio Alonso Rodriguez Lindo | |
| Date of birth | September 12, 1945 | |
| Place of birth | San Salvador, El Salvador | |
| Playing position | Right Wing | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1959-1961 | Colegio Externado San José | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1959 1960 1961 1963-1972 |
Sport Boys Mejicanos Atlante Futbol Club C.D. FAS Universidad de El Salvador |
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| National team | ||
| 1963-1972 |  El Salvador |
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| Teams managed | ||
| 1973-1982 |
Sport Club University Sport Club Molsa Sport Club Tapachulteca C.D. Chalatenango El Salvador, National Team |
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Mauricio Alonso "Pipo" Rodríguez Lindo (born September 12, 1945) is a former soccer player from El Salvador who represented his country at the Olympic games in 1968, 1970 FIFA World CupMexico and coached them to in the 1982 FIFA World Cup Spain.
[edit] Playing years
Mauricio "Pipo" Rodriguez began playing soccer at the high school level, playing for the Colegio Externado San José in 1959. When he was 16, he was selected to play for the under 17 national team. He began playing professionally for Atlante in 1962. He was signed, on a one year loan basis, by C.D. FAS He permanently signed and played out his soccer career at Universidad from 1963 to 1972. Universidad was a professional soccer club that played in the top "A" professional league in El Salvador. The Universidad Club was owned by the Salvadorean National University, where "Pipo" studied and graduated with a civil engineer degree. During his playing career, he was a goal scoring machine. At the age of 20, he became the top scorer in the professional league during the 1965-66 season. He was best known for making acrobatic sideways shots and difficult scissor kicks.
Mauricio was selected to play for the El Salvador, at the age of 17, in 1963. He helped the national team qualify and play in the 1968 Olympics. He scored a goal in the Olympic games in tie against Ghana.
Later, he helped the El Salvador national team qualify for the World Cup. He scored the winning goal against Honduras that some believe led to the "soccer war" between Honduras and El Salvador. He later scored the winning goal against Haiti to qualify for the World Cup. Mauricio played at the World Cup Tournament held in Mexico in 1970. Knee injuries forced him to retire from playing soccer at the age of 27 in 1972.
[edit] Managing years
Mauricio "Pipo" Rodríguez became a coach through the Association of trainers of football-soccer of El Salvador (AEFES). He obtained "A" level license and the "instructor" designation for this level. He became an Honorary Member of the Association of Latin Trainers in U.S.A. (LASCA). Mauricio also completed a FIFA course in Guatemala at the INST. FERNANDO RIERA in 1975. He became coach of the University F.C. in 1975. Later on he went to coach MOLSA F.C. an minor league team, which he led to win the league championship and won the right to move on up to the top professional league for the first time in MOLSA's history. Mauricio repeated this feat for Deportivo Chalatenango. Mauricio also coached the Tapachulteca F.C.
He became the coach of the under-17 years old El Salvador National soccer team in 1973. He then was named coach of the under 23 squad in 1975. In 1980, Mauricio Rodriguez was appointed coach of El Salvador which he led through the qualification stages for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain. As he publicly disclosed before the 1982 World Cup began, he retired from coaching after the World Cup.
After the 1982 World Cup, he focused on his engineering firm. He also served in various positions for the National Sports Institute (INDES), the Technical Commission for the Soccer Federation of El Salvador, the Board appointed by FIFA for El Salvador, the Board of "Funda Madrid" in El Salvador, and President of his old soccer club Universidad.
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Mauricio did not scored the winning gol against Haiti in Jamaica. The one who scored was Juan Ramon (Mon) Martinez
