Juan Ramón Martínez (footballer)

Juan Ramón Martínez
Martínez in 1970
Personal information
Full name Juan Ramón Martínez
Date of birth (1948-04-20)20 April 1948
Place of birth San Miguel, El Salvador
Date of death 4 August 2024(2024-08-04) (aged 76)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1964–1966 C.D. Aguila
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965–1966 Municipal
1967–1970 Águila
1971–1973 Juventud Olímpica
1974–1975 Alianza
1976–1979 Once Municipal
Once Lobos
International career
1967–1976 El Salvador[1] 32 (14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan Ramón "Mon" Martínez (20 April 1948 – 4 August 2024) was a Salvadoran footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Martínez played in Guatemala, where he won a title with Municipal in 1965–66.[2]

International career

Martínez represented his country at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Salvador’s only participation to the Olympic Football Tournament, playing three games and scoring Salvador’s first ever goal (out of 2) in the Olympics[3] and the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.[4]

He scored 14 goals for the El Salvador national team from 1967 to 1976,[5] 7 of those in World Cup qualification.[6]

Death

Martínez died on 4 August 2024, at the age of 76.[7]

References

  1. ^ "El Salvador - Record International Players".
  2. ^ "Salvadoreños en la Historia Roja". Archived from the original on 8 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Juan Ramón Martínez Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  4. ^ Juan Martínez – FIFA competition record (archived)
  5. ^ Owsianki, Jarek (18 April 2004). "El Salvador - Record International Players". RSSSF.
  6. ^ Las estadisticas en La Seleccion Nacional de futbol de El Salvador rumbo a La Copa Mundo FIFA - El Balón Cuscatleco
  7. ^ Tovar, Diego; Martell, Samuel (4 August 2024). "Fallece Juan Ramón Martínez, el autor del gol que clasificó a El Salvador a su primer mundial" [Juan Ramón Martínez, the scorer of the goal that qualified El Salvador for its first World Cup, dies]. El Gráfico (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 August 2024.


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