Rodrigo Kenton
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rodrigo Kenton Johnson | ||
| Date of birth | March 5, 1955 | ||
| Place of birth | Limón, Costa Rica | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Manager | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1968–1972 | Deportivo Acón | ||
| 1972 | Estrella Roja | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1973–1978 | Limonense | ||
| 1978–1979 | Ramonense | ||
| 1979–1981 | Saprissa | ||
| 1983 | Municipal Puntarenas | ||
| 1983–1984 | Sagrada Familia | ||
| 1985–1986 | San Carlos | ||
| 1986–1987 | Limonense | ||
| 1987–1988 | Guanacasteca | ||
| 1988–1989 | Ramonense | ||
| – | Universidad | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1989–1990 | Costa Rica (assistant) | ||
| 1992 | Limonense | ||
| 1996–1998 | Puntarenas | ||
| 1998 | Nigeria (assistant) | ||
| 2000–2001 | Alajuelense (assistant) | ||
| 2001 | Alajuelense (caretaker) | ||
| 2002 | Costa Rica (assistant) | ||
| 2004 | Costa Rica U23 | ||
| 2006–2008 | Guatemala U23 | ||
| 2008–2009 | Costa Rica | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Rodrigo Kenton Johnson (born March 5, 1955) is a Costa Rican football coach and former player. He is known as La Bomba Kenton ("The Kenton Bomb").
Kenton started his playing career in Costa Rica's first division, playing for his hometown team, Limonense. He then went on to play for several teams, such as Deportivo Saprissa – where he won his only national championship in 1981 –, Ramonense, Municipal Puntarenas, Sagrada Familia, Guanacasteca and San Carlos.
Kenton retired from professional football in 1989, and began a very successful and international coaching career. His first coaching job was as assistant coach to Bora Milutinovic in the Costa Rica's national squad that played the 1990 World Cup held in Italy, where Costa Rica had a great performance and reached the second round, against all odds.
In Costa Rica, he has had short coaching periods at Costa Rica's first division, with Herediano and Alajuelense during the mid-90's, but neither team gave him enough time to build his ideas and process. So, he went back to international football and in 1998, he was asked by Milutinovic to be his assistant coach again, this time with the Nigeria national football team that played the 1998 World Cup that took place in France. After completing the Nigeria job, he returned to take charge of Puntarenas only to be dismissed in October 1998.
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