Mario Pérez Rodríguez

Mario Perez
Personnel
Surname	Mario Pérez Rodríguez
birthday	April 11, 1936
place of birth	Heredia ,  Mexico
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1953-1967	CD Saprissa
1967-1971	CS Cartaginés
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1957-1965	Costa Rica
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1973	Deportivo México (TW coach)
1988-1989	Deportivo Saprissa (TW coach)
1989-1992	El Carmen de Alajuela y Goicoechea (TW-Trainer)
1 Only league games are given.

Mario Pérez Rodríguez (born April 11, 1936 in Heredia ), also known by the nickname El Flaco (the thin one), is a former Costa Rican football player on the position of goalkeeper .

biography

Despite his young age, El Flaco Pérez made his debut in 1953 in the Primera División de Costa Rica for the Club Deportivo Saprissa . In the next fourteen years he was the goalkeeper of the Violets and won six championship titles with them.

In 1967 he moved to the league competitor Club Sport Cartaginés , where he ended his active career in January 1971.

Despite his departure from Saprissa, Pérez was still considered an inviolable icon of the violets and was accepted into the Saprissa Gallery of Honor ( Galería de los Inolvidables ) in 1998.

As early as 1989, he and Carlos Alvarado Villalobos had been voted the best Costa Rican goalkeeper of the 1950s.

After his active career, he worked as a goalkeeping coach at various clubs.

In the qualifying games for the soccer world championships of 1958, 1962 and 1966 Pérez often guarded the goal of the national soccer team of Costa Rica .

successes

• Costa Rican champion: 1953, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967

Web links

• www.tiquicia.com: Player biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Costa Rican World Cup qualifiers on RSSSF