Rigoberto Guzmán | |
Fullname: | Rigoberto Guzmán Calderón |
Birth Date: | 11 June 1932 |
Birth Place: | Atiquizaya, Ahuachapán, El Salvador |
Death Place: | El Salvador |
Position: | Midfielder |
Clubs2: | Juventud Olimpica Metalio |
Nationalteam1: | El Salvador |
Manageryears1: | 1968 |
Managerclubs3: | Adler San Nicolás |
Managerclubs7: | Lincoln |
Managerclubs8: | Maestranza |
Rigoberto "Rigo" Guzmán Calderón (11 June 1932 – 22 June 2014) was a Salvadoran football (soccer) player and manager from Atiquizaya.
Guzmán was a running athlete who competed at the 800 and 3000 metres but later became a football player and captained the Juventud Olimpica Metalio side for eight years.[1]
Guzmán coached El Salvador at the 1968 Olympic Games.[2] Also, he is a painter and caricaturist and in 2006 he was given the title Maestro Meritísimo de El Salvador after 50 years of educating.[3]
In January 2001, Professor Guzmán fell victim of an earthquake when his house collapsed.[4]
Guzmán died from an undisclosed terminal disease on 22 June 2014.[5]