Roger Mayorga

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
1961	Club Dinamo
	Rincón Español
	Milca Roja
1967	Flor de Caña
1967	América Cali
1967–1968	Aurora
1969	Águila
1971–1979	Motagua
1979–1980	Universidad
1981	Marathón
1982–1984	Súper Estrella
International career
	Nicaragua
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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” Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine – 6 March 2012
^ "Muere Roger Mayorga mítico portero nicaragüense ex de Motagua". DiarioMas.hn. La Tribuna. 5 October 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

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[1] Desafíe a Ismael Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine - La Prensa (in Spanish)

[2] Desafíe a Ismael - La Prensa (in Spanish)

[3] LaPrensa.hn – Escober: “Me hice portero jugando apostado” Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine – 6 March 2012

[4] "Muere Roger Mayorga mítico portero nicaragüense ex de Motagua". DiarioMas.hn. La Tribuna. 5 October 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

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