Mauricio Alonso Rodríguez
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mauricio Alonso Rodríguez Lindo | ||
| Date of birth | 12 September 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | San Salvador, El Salvador | ||
| Playing position | Right Wing | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1959–1961 | Colegio Externado San José | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1961 | Sport Boys Mejicanos | ||
| 1962 | Atlante | ||
| 1963 | FAS | ||
| 1963–1972 | UES | ||
| National team | |||
| 1963–1972 | El Salvador | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1973–1974 | El Salvador U-17 | ||
| 1975 | El Salvador U-23 | ||
| 1975 | UES | ||
| 1975–1976 | Sport Club Molsa | ||
| 1976 | Sport Club Tapachulteca | ||
| 1979 | Chalatenango | ||
| 1980–1982 | El Salvador | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 March 2008 |
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Mauricio Alonso "Pipo" Rodríguez Lindo (born 12 September 1945) is a retired footballer from El Salvador.
He represented his country at the Olympic Games in 1968, 1970 FIFA World Cup Mexico and coached them to in the 1982 FIFA World Cup Spain.
Nicknamed Pipo, Rodríguez played soccer at high school level for the Colegio Externado San José. He began playing professionally for Atlante San Alejo in 1962. He was signed, on a one-year loan basis, by C.D. FAS.
Rodriguez 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 Salvadoran 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 joint (with Panamanian Oscar Tapia) top scorer in the professional league with 23 goals during the 1965–66 season. He was best known for making acrobatic sideways shots and difficult scissor kicks.
When he was 16, Rodríguez was selected to play for the El Salvador national under-17 football team and he was selected to play for the senior 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. In the run-up he has represented his country in 8 FIFA World Cup qualification matches. El Salvador lost 1–0 in the first game in Honduras in their best two out of three matches. El Salvador won the next game 3–0 at home to even the series. The tie-breaker was played in a neutral site in Mexico. "Pipo" scored the winning goal in overtime against Honduras in a thrilling third game, which El Salvador won 3–2. Given the tensions between the two countries at the time, this winning goal may be the most famous and widely celebrated goal in El Salvador's soccer history. Some believe this victory led to the "football war" between Honduras and El Salvador.
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