Mario Mayén Meza

Mario Mayén Meza
Personal information
Full name Mario Ernesto Mayén Meza
Date of birth (1978-05-19) May 19, 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth La Libertad, El Salvador
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1987 FAS
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1995 Alianza
1995–1999 FAS
1999–2002 Águila
2002–2004 San Salvador F.C.
International career‡
1991–1998 El Salvador 36 (0)
Managerial career
2007 San Salvador F.C. (assistant)
2008 Fuerte San Francisco
Luis Ángel Firpo (assistant)
2011 Águila (assistant)
2020 Águila (assistant)
2020 Águila (director of football)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of November 28, 2020
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of November 28, 2020
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mayén and the second or maternal family name is Meza.

Mario Ernesto Mayén Meza (born 19 May 1968) is a retired Salvadoran professional footballer.

Club career

Mayén Meza has played for three of the 'Big Four' of Salvadoran football: Alianza, FAS and Águila. He finished his career at San Salvador F.C., with whom he won their first league title.[1]

International career

Nicknamed el Negro, Mayén made his debut for El Salvador in an April 1991 UNCAF Nations Cup qualification match against Nicaragua and has earned a total of 36 caps, scoring no goals. He has represented his country in 6 FIFA World Cup qualification matches[2] and played at the 1991, 1993,[3] 1995[4] and 1997 UNCAF Nations Cups[5] as well as at the 1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup[6]

His final international match was a May 1997 World Cup qualification match against Jamaica.

Retirement

Formally, his name is Meza Mayén instead of Mayén Meza because his father's name is Meza. He was also nicknamed el Tiburón (the Shark), since he used to smell like fish at the training ground after first helping his mother in her fish shops. He now runs his own seafood business in La Libertad[7] and has been an assistant coach with San Salvador F.C., where he was dismissed in April 2007,[8] Luis Ángel Firpo and Águila.

References

  1. ^ Una histórica Victoria - El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish)
  2. ^ Mario Mayén Meza – FIFA competition record (archived)
  3. ^ UNCAF Tournament 1993 - RSSSF
  4. ^ UNCAF Tournament 1995 Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine - RSSSF
  5. ^ UNCAF Tournament 1997 - RSSSF
  6. ^ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1996 - Full Details Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine - RSSSF
  7. ^ ¿Qué PASó con... mario mayén meza? - El Salvador.com (in Spanish)
  8. ^ Saúl Rivero, al rescate - El Salvador.com (in Spanish)