Erick Dowson Prado Meléndez (born January 25, 1976) is a retired
Salvadoran
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professional
footballer
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, and the current manager of first division team
Chalatenango.
Club career
ADET
A tall and tough defensive
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
, Prado has had a lengthy career in the
Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador
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It was established in 1969, and in 2 ...
, starting with
ADET
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, with whom he clinched promotion to the top tier, alongside
Santos Rivera and
Héctor Canjura
Héctor Aarón Canjura Astorga (born 15 July 1976) is a retired football player from El Salvador.
Club career
Canjura started his professional career at ADET, but then joined Luis Ángel Firpo for a long spell. He ended his career at Nejapa i ...
.
After short spells at
Alianza,
ADET
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again,
FAS and
Atlético Marte
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* Athletico SC (Lebanon), a Lebanese football academy
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, he ended up at
Isidro Metapán for whom he played for almost 10 successive years bar a short stint at
Segunda División
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club
FESA
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Name
The name is combined from Ancient Greek ''skleros'' "hard" ...
.
Isidro Metapán
Skipper of
Isidro Metapán, Prado suffered a serious knee injury at the end of the Apertura 2010 tournament and after almost 500 matches in 17 years of professional football, Prado finished his playing career in 2011, to become a coach.
With Isidro Metapán, Dowson Prado won the
Clausura 2007,
Apertura 2008,
Clausura 2009,
Clausura 2010 and
Apertura 2010.
Coaching career
Turín FESA
In 2013 Dowson Prado signed as coach of
Turín FESA. With Turín FESA Dowson Prado won the Clausura 2012 and Apertura 2014 of the
Tercera División
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.
FAS reserves
In 2015 he signed as new coach of
FAS reserves. With the juvenile team Dowson Prado won the Apertura 2015 tournament de Categoría de Reservas.
El Salvador Under-17
In January 2016 Dowson Prado signed as new coach of
El Salvador (Under 17), replacing
Edgar Henríquez
Edgar Alonso Henríquez (born 16 March 1964) is a former Salvadoran professional football midfielder and currentlythe manager of El Salvador U-21 team.
Club career
Nicknamed ''Kiko'', Henríquez started his career at Tercera División club Ad ...
. In May 2017, Dowson Prado was not renewed by the
FESFUT.
FAS
Dowson Prado signed as new coach of FAS for the rest of the Apertura 2018 tournament, replacing Colombian manager Álvaro de Jesús Gómez, who left the team because of family problems. Previously, Dowson Prado worked as an assistant of Álvaro de Jesús Gómez. In November 25, Dowson Prado got to classify FAS for the quarter-finals of the Apertura 2018 tournament, after a 0–0 draw against
Isidro Metapán in the
Estadio Jorge Calero Suárez
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.
International career
Prado made his debut for
El Salvador
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in a December 1993
friendly match
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against the
United States
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and has earned a total of 20 caps, scoring no goals.
He has represented his country in 7
FIFA World Cup qualification
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Qualifying tournaments are hel ...
matches and played at the
1999
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and
2005 UNCAF Nations Cups as well as at the
1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup
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The tournament returned to the United States and California; the games were hosted by Los ...
.
CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1996 - Full Details
- RSSSF
His final international game was a February 2005 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Costa Rica
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.
Honours
*Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador
The ''Primera División'' of the (''Professional Football League''), more commonly known as ''La Liga Mayor'' or ''La Primera'', is the top professional association football, football league in El Salvador.
It was established in 1969, and in 2 ...
: 5
:: Clausura 2007, Apertura 2088, Clausura 2009, Clausura 2010, Apertura 2010
References
External links
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1976 births
Living people
Footballers from San Salvador
Salvadoran men's footballers
El Salvador men's international footballers
1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
Alianza F.C. footballers
C.D. FAS footballers
C.D. Atlético Marte footballers
A.D. Isidro Metapán footballers
Men's association football midfielders