Hernan Medford

Hernan Medford
Personnel
Surname	Hernán Evaristo Medford Bryan
birthday	May 23, 1968
place of birth	San Jose ,  Costa Rica
size	176 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1980-1985	D Barrio México
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1986	AD Sagrada Familia
1987-1990	CD Saprissa
1990	Dinamo Zagreb	14 0(4)
1991	SK Rapid Vienna	14 0(5)
1991-1992	Rayo Vallecano	30 0(6)
1992-1993	Foggia Calcio	12 0(1)
1993-1994	CD Saprissa
1994-1997	CF Pachuca
1997-2000	Club León	92 (18)
2000-2001	Necaxa	20 0(6)
2001-2003	CD Saprissa
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1987-2002	Costa Rica	89 (18)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2003-2006	CD Saprissa
2006-2008	Costa Rica
2009	Club León
2010	AD Municipal Liberia
2010-2011	Limón FC
2011-2013	Club Xelajú MC
2013-2014	Real España
2014	Honduras
1 Only league games are given.

Hernán Medford (born May 23, 1968 in San José ) is a Costa Rican football coach and former player on the position of a striker .

career

player

Medford began his professional career in 1986 with AD Sagrada Familia and after just one year he moved to the Costa Rican top club CD Saprissa . Soon after his move to Saprissa, he was called up to the Costa Rican national team , for which he completed a total of 89 missions between 1987 and 2002 and scored 18 goals; including the winning goal in the 87th minute to 2-1 against Sweden in the last preliminary round game of the 1990 World Cup , where Costa Rica survived the group stage when it played for the first time.

After the World Cup, Medford was signed by Dinamo Zagreb and moved to SK Rapid Vienna a half-season later . After further stations in Europe with Rayo Vallecano and Foggia Calcio , he returned to his homeland in 1993, where he played again with CD Saprissa.

In 1994 he moved to Mexico , where he spent the next seven years. After three years in the service of CF Pachuca and Club León , he spent another year at Club Necaxa before returning to CD Saprissa, where he let his active career end in the 2002/03 season.

Trainer

After his active career, Medford received a coaching contract with Saprissa and led the team, with which he had already won three championship titles as a player and once the CONCACAF Champions' Cup , to two further championship titles and the third and so far last success of the club in CONCACAF Champions' Cup (2005 with a final victory against the Mexican representative UNAM Pumas ). This success qualified for participation in the FIFA Club World Cup 2005 , in which Saprissa lost in the semi-finals to Liverpool (3-0), but then took third place with a 3-2 win against Al-Ittihad , which he had before greatest success of a Costa Rican soccer club team is.

In 2006 Medford was entrusted with the post of team manager for the Costa Rican national soccer team, for which he was responsible until the summer of 2008. He then looked after the Mexican Club León, AD Municipal Liberia and Limón FC before joining the Guatemalan club Xelajú MC , with which he won the Guatemalan championship title in the 2012 Clausura . His engagement there ended in June 2013. After that, Medford coached the Honduran first division club Real España before taking over the Honduran national team in the summer of 2014 , but was sacked before the end of 2014 due to the poor results.

title

As a player

• CONCACAF Champions' Cup : 1993 (with Saprissa)
• Costa Rican champion : 1989, 1990, 1994 (with Saprissa)
• Spanish second division runner-up and promoted: 1992 (with Rayo Vallecano)
• Mexican second division champion and newly promoted: 1996 (with Pachuca)

As a trainer

• CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 2005 (with Saprissa)
• FIFA Club World Cup : 3rd place in 2005 (with Saprissa)
• Costa Rican Champion: 2004, 2006 (with Saprissa)
• Guatemalan Champion : Clausura 2012 (with Xelajú)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Costa Rica - Record International Players at RSSSF
2. ↑ Medio Tiempo: Medford, DT del Saprissa tico, dice que irán a ganar el Mundial de Clubes ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; article of November 7, 2005) 
3. ↑ Nacion.com: Medford se llevará cuatro ticos al León (Spanish; article from December 20, 2008)
4. ↑ Nacion.com: Hernán Medford es el nuevo técnico de Liberia Mía (Spanish; article from December 16, 2009)
5. ↑ Nacion.com: Hernán Medford dejó hoy la gerencia de Limón FC (Spanish; article from September 6, 2011)
6. ↑ El costarricense Hernán Medford, nuevo entrenador de Xelajú de Guatemala (Spanish; article from September 15, 2011)
7. ↑ El uruguayo Saúl Rivero sustituye a Hernán Medford como técnico del Xelajú ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on noticias.lainformacion.com from June 26, 2013, accessed on May 4, 2017  
8. ↑ La Prensa: Hernán Medford, nuevo entrenador del Real España (Spanish; article from August 15, 2013)
9. ↑ La Prensa: Hernán Medford: "Es un orgullo dirigir a la Selección de Honduras" (Spanish; article from July 29, 2014)
10. ↑ ¡Hernán Medford queda fuera de la selección de Honduras! (Spanish; article dated December 2, 2014)

Web links

• Hernán Medford in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Aventurero del balón (Spanish; article of September 5, 1999)