Juan Manuel Funes

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Juan Manuel Funes
Personal information
Full name Juan Manuel Funes Fernández
Date of birth (1966-05-16) May 16, 1966 (age 57)
Place of birth Guatemala City, Guatemala
Position(s)
Midfielder
Youth career
Aurora
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1986 Aurora 53 (4)
1986–1997
Municipal
1997–2001
Comunicaciones
 21 (3)
2001–2003
Jalapa
 31 (4)
2003–2005 Aurora 20 (0)
International career‡
1985–2000 Guatemala 66 (15)
Managerial career
2021–2022 Santa Lucía
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 February 2010
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 February 2010

Juan Manuel Funes Fernández (born May 16, 1966), popularly known as Memín Funes

Comunicaciones – and became a member and later captain of the Guatemala national team, which he represented in five World Cup qualification processes. He was recently manager for Liga Nacional club Santa Lucía
.

As of October 2006, he was part of the coaching staff of the Guatemala under-17 team.

Club career

As a teenager, Funes was part of the youth divisions of

Rojos, Funes helped the team win three consecutive league titles in the 1987, 1988, and 1989-90 seasons, and two more in 1991-92 and 1993-94. He scored 43 goals in official tournaments for Municipal.[2]

In 1997, Funes moved to Municipal's arch-rivals

Deportivo Jalapa
. After that he played a second tenure with Aurora, and after the team was relegated to Primera División in 2005, he retired from professional football.

A creative midfielder, Funes' play was characterized by good ball control, field vision, dribbling, and mobility. Although he was not a high-scoring midfielder, he would constantly create scoring chances for teammates in attack.

International career

Funes was part of the Guatemala youth squad that won the gold medal at the III Juegos Centroamericanos in 1986.[4] In 1988, he was part of the squad that participated at the 1988 Olympic tournament, playing against Italy and Iraq.

At the full international level, he made 66 appearances from 1985 to 2000, scoring 15 goals.[5] He was also the national team captain from 1994 to 2000. Funes participated in the 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002 World Cup qualifying campaigns, becoming the first Guatemalan player ever to participate in five such processes.[6] This record was tied in 2015 by Carlos Ruiz.

He was selected to the

1997 UNCAF Nations Cup tournament, where Guatemala finished in second place. His last international match was a September 2000 World Cup qualification match against the United States
.

References and notes

  1. ^ In Guatemala, Meme, and its diminutive Memín are popularly used as short for Manuel.
  2. ^ Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20091021073143/http://geocities.com/SunsetStrip/9119/goleadores.html
  3. ^ Source: "UltraCrema.com - Campeonatos y cuadros Cremas". Archived from the original on 2007-08-05. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
  4. ^ "Guatemala - 100 años de fútbol - 1980-1989 Archived 2007-01-09 at the Wayback Machine - prensalibre.com - newspaper Prensa Libre, Guatemala
  5. ^ Alegria, G.; Pérez C. "Carlos el Pescado Ruiz quiere entrar en la historia". Prensa Libre. Archived from the original on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
  6. ^ Source: "Guatefutbol.com - el Portal del Fútbol Chapín - Inicia el camino hacia Sudáfrica". Archived from the original on 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2008-07-25.

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