Alberto "Cuqui" López Oliva (born 10 March 1944) is a Guatemalanfootball coach and former defender. He is one of three Guatemalan footballers to win the CONCACAF championship with both national team and club.
During his club career, he won four league titles, one domestic cup, two Central American cup (Fraternidad), and the CONCACAF Champions' Cup, and scored 42 goals with Municipal, being the highest scoring defender in the history of the league. He retired from playing in the late 1970s, later becoming a coach.
National team
López Oliva became a starter for the Guatemala national team by the age of 21, and as such he played at the II CONCACAF Championship in 1965, where Guatemala finished in second place, and at the 1967 edition of the tournament, where they were crowned champions over favorites Mexico, whom they beat 1–0 in a hard-fought match on López Oliva's 23rd birthday.
During Olympic qualification in 1968, after Guatemala had beaten Costa Rica 1–0 in the first leg of the series, López Oliva assisted in both goals[2] of a 2–3 loss in the second leg in San José, which tied both teams in points and goal difference; after extra time, the qualified team was decided by a coin toss, with Guatemala winning the right to participate at the 1968 Olympic Tournament in Mexico,[3] where López Oliva was a starter in all four of his team's matches and scored a goal in a 4–1 win against Thailand and another one in a 1–2 loss against Bulgaria.