Rafael Amador Flores

Rafael Amador
Personnel
Surname	Rafael Amador Flores
birthday	November 16, 1957
place of birth	Mexico
date of death	July 31, 2018
size	180 cm
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1987	UNAM Pumas	195 (1)
1987-1988	Puebla FC	18 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1983-1986	Mexico	30 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1999-2000	UNAM Pumas
1 Only league games are given.

Rafael Amador Flores (born November 16, 1957 in the state of Tlaxcala , † July 31, 2018 in the state of Puebla ) was a Mexican football player and coach .

biography

player

Amador was an extremely tough defender who was sent off a total of eleven times in the nine seasons between 1979/80 and 1987/88. In the same period he scored two goals: his first goal, incidentally his only one in a league game, he succeeded in the 1983/84 season in the 4-1 victory of Pumas against Deportivo Toluca . In the following season he met in the semi-final first leg of the Liguilla at Club León (3: 3).

societies

Rafael Amador played between 1979 and 1987 for the UNAM Pumas , with whom he became Mexican champions in the 1980/81 season and twice (1980 and 1982) the CONCACAF Champions Cup and in 1981 the Copa Interamericana . At the end of his active professional career, he was under contract with Puebla FC in 1987/88 .

National team

Between 1983 and 1986 Amador Flores played a total of 30 times for the Mexican national soccer team. The highlight of his national team career was his participation in the 1986 World Cup , which was held in his own country , in which he played against Iraq (1-0) in the last group game, against Bulgaria (2-0) in the round of 16 and against Germany (0-0) in the quarter-finals n. V., 1: 4 on penalties) was used. It is noteworthy that "el Tri", as the national team in Mexico is called, did not concede a single goal in the World Cup games in which he participated. The game against the German team was also his farewell game for "el Tri".

Trainer

Between 1999 and 2000 he coached the professional team of the UNAM Pumas for a year.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The date of birth given by as.com and planetworldcup.com is the most reliable source. Notwithstanding this, other dates of birth are circulating, such as November 16, 1959, mentioned in the Spanish-language Wikipedia or February 15, 1959 indicated by national-football-teams.com . The Mexican Football Association does not provide a date of birth.
2. ↑ Fallce Rafael Amador, ex jugador de Pumas , accessed on August 1, 2018 (Spanish)
3. ^ Mediotiempo.com: Stations as a player
4. ↑ Mediotiempo.com: Seasonal overviews ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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. 
5. ↑ Mediotiempo.com: Stations as a trainer ( memento of the original from January 7, 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.