Rodolfo Muñoz

Rodolfo Muñoz
Personnel
Surname	Rodolfo Muñoz Castro
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1932	Hispano Atlético FC
1933-1935	Orión FC
1936-1942	Real Club España
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1943-1945	Real Club España
1951	Deportivo Toluca
1954	Pumas de la UNAM
1 Only league games are given.

Rodolfo Muñoz , also known by the nicknames Bush and El Tico , is a retired Costa Rican soccer player who played in midfield and later worked as a coach .

Life

In his home country, Rodolfo "Bush" Muñoz has been shown to play for Hispano Atlético FC and, after his relegation from the Primera División de Costa Rica, to Orión FC in late 1932 . With Orión he played from 1933 to 1935 and initially together with Ricardo Saprissa , the "namesake" of the current Costa Rican record champion Deportivo Saprissa .

Together with his teammate at the time, José Antonio Hütt , Muñoz was a guest player on the Mexico trip which CS Libertad completed in September and October 1935 against various club teams from Mexico City . In the second game of the trip, which was won 3-2 against the then Mexican record champions Real Club España , "El Tico" Muñoz must have made such a great impression that he was signed by the club shortly afterwards.

He experienced his most successful years with the Mexican Españistas and won the Mexican championship three times as a player (1936, 1940 and 1942) and once as a coach (1945) . As a coach, he also won the first Copa México after the introduction of professional football (1943/44) and the first two Supercup finals in the era of Mexican professional football : in 1943/44 with a 5-3 win over arch rivals Asturias and the following year by beating Puebla FC 3-0 .

In the early 1950s, Rodolfo "Bush" Muñoz coached the teams from Deportivo Toluca (1951) and Pumas de la UNAM (1954), who were just starting out in the Segunda División .

successes

As a player

• Mexican champion : 1936, 1940, 1942

As a trainer

• Mexican champion : 1945
• Mexican cup winner : 1944
• Mexican Supercup : 1944, 1945

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The origin of the first nickname is unknown, the second refers to his homeland, because a Costa Rican is referred to as "Tico".
2. ↑ Data for the game year 1932 in Costa Rica  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; PDF file)  
3. ↑ Data for the game year 1933 in Costa Rica  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; PDF file)  
4. ↑ Data for the game year 1935 in Costa Rica  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; PDF file)  
5. ↑ Report on the 1935 trip to Mexico by CS La Libertad  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; PDF file)  
6. ↑ Evidence in the English-language article about the Copa México
7. ↑ Reference in the Spanish-language article on the history of Club Deportivo Toluca
8. ↑ Pumas… un orgullo de la UNAM ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 from September 20, 2010)