Rigoberto "Rigo" Guzmán Calderón (11 June 1932 – 22 June 2014) was a Salvadoran
football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player and manager from
Atiquizaya
Atiquizaya is a municipality in the Ahuachapán department
Ahuachapán () is a department of El Salvador in the west of the country. The capital is Ahuachapán. In the South it has the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Range and the Cerro Grande de Apane ...
.
Club career
Guzmán was a running athlete who competed at the 800 and 3000 metres but later became a football player and captained the
Juventud Olimpica Metalio side for eight years.
Managerial career and other professions
Guzmán coached
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
at the
1968 Olympic Games. Also, he is a painter and caricaturist and in 2006 he was given the title ''Maestro Meritísimo de El Salvador'' after 50 years of educating.
In January 2001, Professor Guzmán fell victim of an earthquake when his house collapsed.
Death
Guzmán died from an undisclosed terminal disease on 22 June 2014.
References
External links
Tribute- Memorias Guanacas
1932 births
2014 deaths
People from Ahuachapán Department
Men's association football midfielders
Salvadoran men's footballers
Salvadoran football managers
El Salvador national football team managers
Salvadoran artists
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