Rubén Amorín


Rubén Darío Amorín Mattos was an Uruguayan football player and coach. He was born in Montevideo.

Playing career

Amorín arrived in 1952 in Guatemala to play for Guatemala FC.

Coaching career

He has 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 took Municipal and Comunicaciones to win the CONCACAF Champions Cup in 1974 and 1978.
He also had five tenures as coach of the Guatemala national team, winning the 1967 NORCECA Championship 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 has been catalogued as the greatest coach in the history of Guatemalan football by the local press and by many observers. On 24 December 2014, he died of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 87.