Marlon Menjívar Ernesto (born 1 September 1965) is a retired

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professional

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Club career

The moustached Menjívar was part of Luis Ángel Firpo's most successful team of all time, playing in midfield alongside Firpo greats as Leonel Cárcamo, Edgar Henríquez and Giovanni Trigueros and winning four league titles with them. He scored the winning (and only) goal in the 1991 championship final against C.D. Águila.

International career

Menjívar made his debut for

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in a March 1989

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against

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and has earned a total of 16 caps, scoring no goals. He has represented his country at the

1995 UNCAF Nations Cup Six national Association football, football teams from Central America competed in the 1995 UNCAF Nations Cup (''Copa Centroamericana''). The winning team were the defending champions Honduras national football team, Honduras, who defeated Guatem ...

and was a non-playing squad member at the

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. His final international game was a December 1996

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match against

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Personal life

Menjívar has a construction business and runs his own soccer academy in

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, United States. His daughter Zulia plays for Montgomery College Rockville and was called up for the El Salvador women U-20 team in 2011.Sub 20 femenina, con refuerzos desde el norte
- El Gráfico

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Menjivar, Marlon 1965 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Salvadoran men's footballers El Salvador men's international footballers 1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup players C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo footballers