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Roberto Rivas

Rivas in 1970
Personal information
Full name	Roberto Rivas González
Date of birth	(1941-07-17)July 17, 1941
Place of birth	Soyapango, El Salvador
Date of death	1972 (aged 30–31)
Position(s)	Right Back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1960–1970	Alianza
International career
1967–1970	El Salvador	30	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roberto Rivas González (17 July 1941 – 8 February 1972) was a football player from El Salvador who played as a defender.

Club career

Nicknamed La Burra (The Donkey), Rivas was a one-club man and has only played for Alianza during the 1960s and won two league titles in 1965 and 1966 when he played alongside fellow club legends like José Quintanilla, Mario Monge and Francisco Zamora.

International career

Rivas has represented his country in 10 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played at the 1968 Olympic Games and at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

Death

Rivas died in a suicide in 1972. By June 2010, Rivas was one of six 1968 Olympic footballers of El Salvador who had already died. Alianza retired the number 2 shirt in honour of Rivas.

References

1. Roberto Rivas – FIFA competition record (archived)
2. Alianza F.C. Entre Los 10 Mejores (in Spanish)
3. Hace 40 años de aquel México 70 – El Salvador.com (in Spanish)
4. En memoria del fallecido delantero "Tito" Díaz Archived 2004-09-29 at the Wayback Machine – La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish)

External links

• En la decada de los 70's El Alianza tubo 4 futbolistas grandes 2 defenzas un medio campista y un delantero pero desafortunadamente Fallecieron uno se mato el solo otro fue acribillado el otro accidente de transito y el otro Ahogado (in Spanish)

El Salvador squads

v t e El Salvador squad – 1968 Summer Olympics 1 R. Martínez 2 Rivas 3 Castro 4 Morales 5 Vásquez 6 Ruano 7 Flamenco 8 Villalta 9 Quintanilla 10 Rodríguez 11 Acevedo 12 Flores 13 González 14 J. Martínez 15 Azúcar 16 Méndez 17 Angel 18 Alabi 19 Fernández Coach: Guzmán v t e El Salvador squad – 1970 FIFA World Cup 1 Magaña 2 Rivas 3 Mariona (c) 4 Cortés 5 Osorio 6 Quintanilla 7 Rodríguez 8 Vásquez 9 Martínez 10 Flamenco 11 Aparicio 12 Monge 13 Pineda 14 Manzano 15 Cabrera 16 Sermeño 17 Portillo 18 Castro 19 Méndez 20 Fernández 21 Acevedo 22 Villalta Coach: Carrasco

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