Rubén Darío Amorín Mattos (6 November 1927 – 24 December 2014) was a Uruguayan

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player who played as a forward and

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Playing career

Amorín was born in

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. He arrived in 1952 in

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to play for Guatemala FC.

Coaching career

Amorín spent the majority of his coaching career in Guatemala, where he won a record eight national titles with three clubs from 1964 to 1992, He guided

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and

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to the

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and

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. He also recorded five tenures as coach of the Guatemala national team, winning the 1967 NORCECA Championship (now the

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) which is the highest international honor for that national team to date. He retired in 1994. Due to his success at both the club and international level, Amorín is considered the greatest coach in the history of Guatemalan football by the local press and football personalities. On 24 December 2014, he died of

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at the age of 87.Ruben Amorin Tecnico fallece mas grande Uruguay-Guatemala
- Prensa Libre

References

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