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Flavio Ortega
Brazilian football player and manager (1944-2007) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Flávio Ortega (1944 – 6 February 2007) was a Brazilian football player and manager, who spent most of his career in Central America, mainly in Honduras.
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Club career
Ortega was a Brazilian footballer who started playing in 1962 and moved abroad to play in El Salvador. He came to Honduras in 1968.[1] He played for Real España and Marathón of San Pedro Sula, rising to become an important player for both clubs.
Ortega was the Honduran league's leading goal-scorer with 18 goals for Marathón in the 1969–70 season.[2] He scored 45 goals in the Honduran league in 110 matches.[3]
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Managerial career
After he retired from playing, Ortega managed the Honduras national football team at the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup finals, leading Honduras to a second-place finish.[4] He won the 1994 CONCACAF Champions' Cup with Costa Rican side Cartaginés.
Honduran clubs statistics
Personal life and death
Ortega's mother's name is Maria Candida Sanches, he had a brother named Esteban Ortega Filho and a sister named Rosa Maria Ortega Santos. He was married to Honduran Ligia Hernández de Ortega and the couple had four children: Claudia, Flavio, and twins Liliane and Lilian. He became a Honduran citizen in 1992. In 2005, when with Platense, he suffered multiple injuries sustained in a car accident.
Ortega died of a respiratory disorder, which added to kidney failure both results from a brain haemorrhage, in 2007 in San Pedro Sula.[5]
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Honours
Manager
- Real C.D. España
- C.S. Cartaginés
- Olimpia
- Marathón
Individual
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External links
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