Rubén Amorín

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Rubén Darío Amorín Mattos[1] (born in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan former football player and coach.

Playing career

Amorín arrived in 1952 in Guatemala to play for Guatemala FC.

Coaching career

He has spent the majority of his coaching career in Guatemala, where he won a record eight national titles with three different clubs from 1964 to 1992, and took CSD Municipal to win the CONCACAF championship in 1974, the only time a Guatemalan club has won that title.

He also had five different tenures as coach of the Guatemala national team, winning the 1967 NORCECA Championship which is the highest international honor for that national team to date.

Due to his success at both the club and international level, Amorín has been catalogued as the greatest coach in the history of Guatemalan football by the local press and by many observers.[2]

References

  1. Also sp. Matos in some sources.
  2. Pocón, David. "El viejo zorro de la táctica y la estrategia". Diario de Centro América. Retrieved 2010-02-05. 


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