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José María Rivas

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José María Rivas
Personal information
Full name José María Rivas Martínez
Date of birth (1958-05-12)12 May 1958
Place of birth San Salvador, El Salvador
Date of death 9 January 2016(2016-01-09) (aged 57)
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1984 Independiente
1985–1990 Atlético Marte
1990–1991 San Pedro Dolphins
1992 Huracán
1992 Cojutepeque
International career
1980–1989 El Salvador 47 (19)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

José María Rivas Martínez (12 May 1958 – 9 January 2016) was a football player from El Salvador.

Club career

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Nicknamed Mandingo, Rivas played several years for Independiente De San Vicente and Atlético Marte, with whom he won a League Championship in 1985. In 1990, he joined San Pedro of Belize and after leaving them had short spells at the end of his career in the Salvadoran second division with Huracán and Cojutepeque.[1]

He won the 1985 Top league goal scorer award and also won the Golden Boot and Golden Ball in that year.

International career

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The moustached Rivas made his official debut for El Salvador in a March 1980 friendly match against Panama, played in 17 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and featured in all three of El Salvador's games at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.[2] He scored 19 goals for the El Salvador national football team from 1980 to 1989.[3] He scored 42 goals in 97 matches including non-official games.[4]

His final international game was a November 1989 FIFA World Cup qualification match against the United States in St. Louis.

List of international goals scored by José María Rivas
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
124 August 1980Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City, Panama Panama1–03–11982 FIFA World Cup qualification
25 October 1980Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador Panama2–04–11982 FIFA World Cup qualification
326 July 1981Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador Haiti3–04–0Friendly
422 April 1982Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, Tegucigalpa, Honduras Honduras1–11–1Friendly
529 January 1984Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador Venezuela3–04–0Friendly
627 June 1984Estadio Cuscatlán, El Salvador Guatemala1–03–1Friendly
729 July 1984Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador Puerto Rico3–05–01986 FIFA World Cup qualification
85 August 1984Estadio Juan Ramón Loubriel, Bayamón, Puerto Rico Puerto Rico3–03–01986 FIFA World Cup qualification
99 October 1984Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, United States United States1–01–3Friendly
104 December 1984Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, United States Guatemala2–02–1Friendly
1112 December 1984Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador Ecuador1–01–1Friendly
12 3 February 1985 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador  Denmark 1–0 3–0 Friendly
13 2–0
14 27 February 1985 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador  Suriname 1–0 3–0 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification
15 3–0
1610 March 1985Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador Honduras1–11–21986 FIFA World Cup qualification
177 October 1987Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, United States Guatemala1–01–0Friendly
1825 June 1989Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador Costa Rica2–32–41990 FIFA World Cup qualification

Retirement and illness

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After he retired, he was in charge of C.D. Árabe Marte and took the reins at FAS in 1999 along with José Luis Rugamas.[5]

During his playing career, he had obtained his medical diplomas to become a doctor and was part of the El Salvador national football team medical staff. In June 2011, it became clear Rivas was seriously ill[6] and needed a marrow operation, for which funds would be raised with a benefit match.[7] A lot of former players were reunited to help Rivas.[8] Rivas died of leukemia on 9 January 2016 at the age of 57.[9]

References

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  1. ""El Mandigo Goleador urge de nuestra ayuda" – ESALMUNDOTV.COM :: Transmitiendo en directo desde El Salvador al Mundo". Esalmundotv.com. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  2. José María RivasFIFA competition record (archived)
  3. Owsianki, Jarek (18 April 2004). "El Salvador - Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
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  5. Archived January 18, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Jose Maria Mandingo Rivas Simbolo Marciano esta muy enfermo. ~ Club Deportivo Atletico Marte". Clubdeportivoatleticomarte.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  7. Archived November 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20110906115252/http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/nota_completa.asp?idCat=6429&idArt=6156512. Archived from the original on 6 September 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. "Falleció José María "Mandingo" Rivas | El Gráfico". Elgrafico.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
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