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) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1976–1977 | Dragón | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1978–1979, 1982 | Platense | ||
1980–1982 | Alianza | ||
1983–1987 | FAS | ||
1987–1991 | Cojutepeque | ||
1991 | Platense | ||
National team | |||
1979–1989 | El Salvador | ||
Teams managed | |||
1992–1993 | Platense | ||
1994–1996 | San Rafael F.C. | ||
1997–1999 | Municipal | ||
2000–2003 | Telecom | ||
2003–2005 | Platense | ||
2005–2006 | Coca Colo | ||
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 | Municipal Limeño | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2007. |
Mauricio Alberto Alfaro Valladares (born 13 February 1956) is a retired soccer player from El Salvador who represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.
Nicknamed el Tuco, Alfaro started his career at Platense and 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 league final to Luis Ángel Firpo.
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 World Cup Finals match against Argentina.
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 is coached El Salvador U-21 and El Salvador U-20 who he helped qualify for the 2010 CAC Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico and the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
He helped El Salvador U-20 become the first Salvadoran team to win a game at a world cup, by defeating the Australia 2-1.
He coached in the Primera division for the first time in 2016, leading the recently promoted Municipal limeno 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.[1]