Flavio Ortega

Flavio Ortega ( 1944 - February 6, 2007 ) was a Brazilian - Honduran football player and coach.

Athletic career

Ortega began playing football in his native Brazil, where he played for Fluminense Rio de Janeiro , among others . In 1968 he came to Honduras to play for CD Luis Ángel Firpo . Stations at CD Marathón and Real España followed . In the 1969/70 season he was the top scorer in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras with 18 goals this season , a record that Gilberto Machado only surpassed in 1987 with 19 goals.

After retiring, Ortega stayed in Honduras and later worked as a coach. After he had trained his former Real España playing station at the end of the 1980s, he took over the management of the Honduran national team in 1990 as the successor to José de la Paz Herrera . With the national team he reached the final in the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup against the US national team , which was decided on penalties . Although the Honduran goalkeeper Belarmino Rivera saved three penalties and an additional penalty was missed by Peter Vermes , the team missed the second title win since 1981 . He later passed the office on to Estanislao Malinowski and returned to club football.

Ortega won with the Costa Rican club CS Cartaginés the CONCACAF Champions' Cup in 1994 , as in the final of the Argentine Ricardo La Volpe supervised Mexican representatives CF Atlante with a 3: 2 victory was defeated. As a result, the Honduran record champions CD Olimpia recruited him , but here he remained without a title win. He later trained at Universidad in Honduras and Deportivo Zacapa in Guatemala before winning his first national championship title in Honduras in 2003 with the CD Marathón. This was followed by engagements with CD Motagua and CD Platense , before he joined CD Olimpia again in 2006. With the club he reached the finals for the Copa Interclubes UNCAF , which, however, were decided after a 2-3 first leg defeat at Puntarenas FC and a 1-0 return win on penalties, which went to the disadvantage of the Hondurans.

Subsequently, Ortega returned again as the successor to José de la Paz Herrera at the top of the Honduran national team. At the beginning of January 2007 he nominated the players for the UNCAF Nations Cup 2007, which is due in February . However, he suffered a stroke on January 6th, as a result of which he died three days before the start of the tournament in early February at the age of 62.

Ortega, who left his Honduran wife and four children, had acquired Honduran citizenship in the 1990s.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Centenares de catrachos despiden al fallecido entrenador Flavio Ortega"