Rafael Amador

Rafael Amador Flores ( born November 16, 1957) is a former Mexican football player.

Biography

Player

Amador was a very hard sometimes defender, who was sent off eleven times in the nine seasons between 1979/80 and 1987/88. During the same period, he scored two goals: his first goal, by the way its only in an official match, he succeeded in a 4-1 victory against Deportivo Toluca cougars in the 1983/84 season. In the following season he scored in the semi-final first leg of the Liguilla at Club León ( 3:3 ).

Clubs

Rafael Amador played 1979-1987 for the UNAM Pumas with whom he was in season 1980/81 Mexican champion and twice (1980 and 1982), the CONCACAF Champions Cup and 1981 Copa Interamericana won. At the end of his active professional career, he was 1987/88 when Puebla FC under contract.

National

Between 1983 and 1986 came Amador Flores total of 30 times for the Mexican national football team used. Height of his national team career was the participation in the discharged in their own country FIFA World Cup 1986, where he last group match against Iraq (1-0 ) in the second round against Bulgaria ( 2-0) and in the quarter- final against Germany (0-0 nV, 1:4 on penalties ) was used. It is worth noting that " El Tri ," as the national team is called in Mexico, suffered not a single goal in the World Cup games in which he participated. The match against the German team was also his farewell match for " El Tri ".

Coach

Between 1999 and 2000 he trained for one year the professional team of Pumas UNAM.