Flavio Ortega

Flavio Ortega
Personal information
Full name	Flávio Ortega
Date of birth	1944
Place of birth	São Paulo, Brazil
Date of death	6 February 2007 (aged 62)
Place of death	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Fluminense
1968	CD Luis Ángel Firpo
1968–1971	Marathón
1971–1972	Atlético Español Verdún
1973–1974	Real España
Managerial career
1988–1990	Real España
1991	Honduras
1994	Cartaginés
1995	Olimpia
2000	Universidad
2001–2002	Zacapa
2002–2003	Marathón
2004	Motagua
2005	Platense
2006	Olimpia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Flávio Ortega (1944 – 6 February 2007) was a Brazilian football player and manager, who spent most of his career in Central America, mainly in Honduras.

Club career

Ortega was a Brazilian footballer who started playing in 1962 and moved abroad to play in El Salvador. He came to Honduras in 1968.^[2] He played for Real España and Marathón of San Pedro Sula, rising to become an important player for both clubs.

Ortega was the Honduran league's leading goal-scorer with 18 goals for Marathón in the 1969–70 season.^[3] He scored 45 goals in the Honduran league in 110 matches.^[4]

Managerial career

After he retired from playing, Ortega managed the Honduras national football team at the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup finals, leading Honduras to a second-place finish.^[5] He won the 1994 CONCACAF Champions' Cup with Costa Rican side Cartaginés.

Honduran clubs statistics

Team	Season	Games	Goal
Club Deportivo Marathón	1968-69	21	7
Club Deportivo Marathón	1969-70	26	18
Atlético Español	1970-71	22	10
Club Deportivo Marathón	1971-72	20	5
Real España	1973-74	21	5
TOTAL	1968-1974	110	45

Personal life and death

Ortega's mother's name is Maria Candida Sanches, he had a brother named Esteban Ortega Filho and a sister named Rosa Maria Ortega Santos. He was married to Honduran Ligia Hernández de Ortega and the couple had four children: Claudia, Flavio, and twins Liliane and Lilian. He became a Honduran citizen in 1992. In 2005, when with Platense, he suffered multiple injuries sustained in a car accident.

Ortega died of a respiratory disorder, which added to kidney failure both results from a brain haemorrhage, in 2007 in San Pedro Sula.^[6]

Honours

Manager

Real C.D. España

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras: (2): 1988–89, 1990–91

C.S. Cartaginés

CONCACAF Champions' Cup (1): 1994

Olimpia

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras (1): 1995–96

Marathón

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras (1): 2002–03 C

Individual

Honduran Liga Nacional Top Scorer: (1): 1969–70

References

^ "Flavio Ortega, extécnico de Honduras". La Nación (Costa Rica) (in Spanish). 6 February 2007.
^ Centenares de catrachos despiden al fallecido entrenador Flavio Ortega - Mediotiempo (in Spanish)
^ Urbina, Walter; Jerez, Irvin; Rodríguez, René Ivann (30 September 1999). "Honduras - List of Topscorers". RSSSF.
^ Desafíe a Ismael Archived 2012-08-07 at the Wayback Machine - La Prensa (in Spanish)
^ Courtney, Barrie (12 June 2009). "CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1991 - Full Details". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013.
^ Muere entrenador brasileño-hondureño Flavio Ortega - El Correo (in Spanish)

External links

Flavio Ortega coach profile at National-Football-Teams.com

[1] "Flavio Ortega, extécnico de Honduras". La Nación (Costa Rica) (in Spanish). 6 February 2007.

[2] Centenares de catrachos despiden al fallecido entrenador Flavio Ortega - Mediotiempo (in Spanish)

[3] Urbina, Walter; Jerez, Irvin; Rodríguez, René Ivann (30 September 1999). "Honduras - List of Topscorers". RSSSF.

[4] Desafíe a Ismael Archived 2012-08-07 at the Wayback Machine - La Prensa (in Spanish)

[5] Courtney, Barrie (12 June 2009). "CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1991 - Full Details". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013.

[6] Muere entrenador brasileño-hondureño Flavio Ortega - El Correo (in Spanish)

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