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 Jairo Manfredo Martínez Puerto (born 14 May 1978) is a Honduran former professional footballer who played as a forward. Club career Nicknamed ''el Kiki'', Martínez started his professional career at F.C. Motagua with whom he would spend the ...

. He left the UK in October 2002 to rejoin Motagua and then moved to

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in Uruguay in 2004, before his move to Chicago Fire of

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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

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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 midfielder in a 2–0 win against

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. Guerrero was traded to Colorado Rapids in February 2009 as part of the deal taking

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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

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. On April 30, 2015, it was announced that

Günter Kronsteiner Günter Kronsteiner (born 14 September 1953) is an Austrian former footballer who was most recently head coach of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the American North American Soccer League, currently manager of Slovak 1. FC Tatran Prešov Playi ...

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

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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 Belize and has earned a total of 84 caps, scoring 4 goals. He has represented his country in 33

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matches and played at the

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

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and

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s as well as at the

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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 from ...

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

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. His final international was an October 2010 friendly match against

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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 *

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: 1997–98 A, 1997–98 C, 1999–2000 A, 1999–2000 C,

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Honduran Super Cup The Honduran Supercup is a Honduras, Honduran Association football, football competition held yearly as a preseason match between the reigning champions of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras, Liga Nacional and the Honduran Cup. ...

: 1997–98 ;D.C. United * Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup:

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;Chicago Fire Soccer Club * Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup:

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Country

;Honduras * CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament:

References

External links

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