Roger Mayorga
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Roger Mayorga | ||
| Date of birth | 10 July 1946 | ||
| Place of birth | Managua, Nicaragua | ||
| Date of death | 5 October 2019 (aged 73) | ||
| Place of death | Managua, Nicaragua | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Escuela José Martí | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1961 | Club Dinamo | ||
| Rincón Español | |||
| Milca Roja | |||
| 1967 | Flor de Caña | ||
| 1967 | América Cali | ||
| 1967–1968 | Aurora | ||
| 1969 | Águila | ||
| 1971–1979 | Motagua | 123 | (0) |
| 1979–1980 | Universidad | ||
| 1981 | Marathón | ||
| 1982–1984 | Súper Estrella | ||
| National team | |||
| Nicaragua | |||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Roger Mayorga (10 July 1946 – 5 October 2019) was a Nicaraguan football goalkeeper.
Club career[]
Regarded as the finest of Nicaraguan goalkeepers alongside Salvador Dubois, Mayorga played his club football for Club Dinamo, Rincon Espanol, Milca Roja and Flor de Caña FC in his homeland Nicaragua and spent time abroad playing for América de Cali in Colombia, Águila in El Salvador and Aurora in Guatemala.
Honduras[]
He had a lengthy spell with F.C. Motagua, for whom he would play 123 games,[1] and played for Universidad, Marathón and Super Estrella de Danlí in Honduras. He retired aged 38.
He holds the record of most successive clean sheets in the Honduran league, 10 matches without a goal conceded between 22 February 1976 and 9 May 1976.[2]
Record[]
Mayorga maintains a record of 838 minutes without conceiving a goal playing for F.C. Motagua in 1976.[3]
Personal life[]
His parents were Bienvenida Mayorga and Julio Gutiérrez. He lived with his family in Arizona, with family in NY. He died on 5 October 2019 in Managua at the age of 73 due to a heart attack.[4]
External links[]
- Profile - Manfut
References[]
- ^ Desafíe a Ismael Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine - La Prensa (in Spanish)
- ^ Desafíe a Ismael - La Prensa (in Spanish)
- ^ LaPrensa.hn – Escober: “Me hice portero jugando apostado” – 6 March 2012
- ^ "Muere Roger Mayorga mítico portero nicaragüense ex de Motagua". DiarioMas.hn. La Tribuna. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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- 1946 births
- 2019 deaths
- Sportspeople from Managua
- Association football goalkeepers
- Nicaraguan footballers
- Nicaragua international footballers
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- Aurora F.C. players
- C.D. Águila footballers
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- C.D. Marathón players
- Nicaraguan expatriate footballers
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- Expatriate footballers in Guatemala
- Expatriate footballers in El Salvador
- Expatriate footballers in Honduras
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