Personal information | |||
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Full name | Flávio Ortega | ||
Date of birth | 1944 | ||
Place of birth | São Paulo, Brazil | ||
Date of death | 6 February 2007 (aged 62) [1] | ||
Place of death | San Pedro Sula, Honduras | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Fluminense | |||
1968 | CD Luis Ángel Firpo | ||
1968–1971 | Marathón | 67 | (30) |
1971–1972 | Atlético Español Verdún | 22 | (10) |
1973–1974 | Real España | 21 | (5) |
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.
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]
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.
Team | Season | Games | Goal |
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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 |
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]