Mario Iván Guerrero Ramírez (born 30 November 1977) is a Honduran former

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who last played for

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in the

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. He was the club captain and also served as an assistant coach.

Career

Club

Guerrero began his career with

F.C. Motagua Club de Fútbol Motagua (), formerly Club Deportivo Motagua up to 2017, is an association football club, located in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras. F.C. Motagua was founded as ''Club Deportivo Motagua'' on 29 August 1928. The club competes ...

in Honduras, playing with the team from 1996 until transferring overseas in 2000. He moved to the English Premiership to play for

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along with compatriot Jairo Martínez. He left the UK in October 2002 to rejoin Motagua and then moved to C.A. Peñarol in

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in 2004, before his move to Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer.

Major League Soccer

He served as Chicago's lone representative in the 2005 MLS All-Star Game; and won the Fire's 2005 Fire/Honda MVP and Fire Defender of the Year awards. On 21 November 2007 he was selected by San Jose Earthquakes in the

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. He was later traded to

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on 31 July 2008 in exchange for a partial allocation. He made his D.C. United debut on 2 August 2008 as a starting left

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in a 2–0 win against Kansas City Wizards. Guerrero was traded to

Colorado Rapids The Colorado Rapids are an American professional soccer club based in the Denver metropolitan area. The Rapids compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference. Founded in 1995, as part of the Anschutz Corporation, lat ...

in February 2009 as part of the deal taking Christian Gómez back to

. He was waived by Colorado on 17 June 2009.

Retirement

He retired in 2011 playing for

Fort Lauderdale Strikers

On 24 January 2013, Guerrero ended retirement by signing with

of the

. In his first season with the Strikers he led the team in assists with six. Guerrero is captain of the club for the 2014 season. Following the dismissal of head coach Marcelo Neveleff on June 7, 2015, Guerrero was named interim head coach for the Strikers final spring season match against Minnesota United FC. On April 30, 2015, it was announced that Günter Kronsteiner would be returning as Strikers head coach. Guerrero will remain as an assistant coach on Kronsteiner's staff and also still be a part of the Strikers player roster.

International career

Guerrero made his debut for Honduras in a March

1999 UNCAF Nations Cup The 1999 UNCAF Nations Cup was a UNCAF Nations Cup held in San Jose, Costa Rica in March 1999. The host team won the tournament's final group. Costa Rica then qualified automatically, alongside second-placed Guatemala and third-placed Honduras ...

match against

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and has earned a total of 84 caps, scoring 4 goals. He has represented his country in 33 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played at the

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, 2001, 2005 and

2009 UNCAF Nations Cup The UNCAF Nations Cup 2009 was the tenth edition of the UNCAF Nations Cup, the biennial football (soccer) tournament for the CONCACAF-affiliated national teams of Central America. The first five places qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Th ...

s as well as at the

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, 2005 and

2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup The 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the ninth edition of the Gold Cup, the soccer championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean ( CONCACAF), and was won by the United States over Mexico. It was contested in the United States fr ...

s. He was a member of the national squad who competed at the

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in Sydney. His final international was an October 2010

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against Guatemala.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Honduras' goal tally first.''

Personal life

Guerrero is a permanent resident of the United States.

Honours and awards

Club

;F.C. Motagua * Liga Nacional: 1997–98 A, 1997–98 C, 1999–2000 A, 1999–2000 C, 2010–11 C * Honduran Super Cup: 1997–98 ;D.C. United *

Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, commonly known as the U.S. Open Cup (USOC), is a knockout cup competition in men's soccer in the United States of America. It is the oldest ongoing national soccer competition in that country. The 2023 U.S. O ...

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;Chicago Fire Soccer Club *

: 2006

Country

;Honduras *

CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament The CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship was a quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organized by CONCACAF to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the North, Central America and Caribbean region qual ...

References

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– Fort Lauderdale Strikers {{DEFAULTSORT:Guerrero, Ivan 1977 births Living people People from Comayagua Men's association football defenders Honduran footballers Honduras men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Honduras Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup players F.C. Motagua players Coventry City F.C. players Peñarol players Chicago Fire FC players San Jose Earthquakes players D.C. United players Colorado Rapids players Fort Lauderdale Strikers players Honduran expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in England Expatriate footballers in Uruguay Expatriate soccer players in the United States Honduran expatriate sportspeople in England Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Uruguay Honduran expatriate sportspeople in the United States Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players Premier League players Major League Soccer players Major League Soccer All-Stars North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players Pan American Games silver medalists for Honduras Footballers at the 1999 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in football