Rodrigo Kenton

Rodrigo Kenton Johnson
Personal information
Full name	Rodrigo Kenton Johnson
Date of birth	March 5, 1955 (age 69)
Place of birth	Limón, Costa Rica
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1968–1972	Deportivo Acón
1972	Estrella Roja
Senior career*
Years	Team
1973–1978	Limonense
1978–1979	Ramonense
1979–1981	Saprissa
1983	Municipal Puntarenas
1983–1984	Sagrada Familia
1985–1986	San Carlos
1986–1987	Limonense
1987–1988	Guanacasteca
1988–1989	Ramonense
	Universidad
Managerial career
1989–1990	Costa Rica (assistant)
1992	Limonense
1996–1998	Puntarenas
1998	Nigeria (assistant)
2000–2001	Alajuelense (assistant)
2001	Alajuelense (caretaker)
2002	Costa Rica (assistant)
2004	Costa Rica U23
2006–2008	Guatemala U23
2008–2009	Costa Rica
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rodrigo Kenton Johnson (born March 5, 1955) is a Costa Rican football coach and former player. He is known as La Bomba Kenton ("The Kenton Bomb").

Playing career

Kenton started his playing career in

Ramonense, Municipal Puntarenas, Sagrada Familia, Guanacasteca and San Carlos

.

Coaching career

Kenton retired from professional football in 1989, and began a very successful and international coaching career. His first coaching job was as

1990 World Cup held in Italy, where Costa Rica

had a great performance and reached the second round, against all odds.

In

1998 World Cup that took place in France. After completing the Nigeria job, he returned to take charge of Puntarenas only to be dismissed in October 1998.^[2]

By the early 2000s, he took charge of the

Jozef Venglos

, and others.

In 2006, Kenton was named coach of the Guatemala national team U-23, with the goal to classify Guatemala to the 2008 Olympic Games, but failed to accomplish it.^[3]