Juan Ramón Paredes Zelaya (born 23 May 1950) is a former Salvadoran professional

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player and currently manager.

Coaching career

Alianza

He became the coach of Alianza at the beginning of 2000 season, he went on to win the Apertura 2001 in the process becoming the first and so far only Salvadoran to win a title with Alianza as coach. He took the team to several final series before quitting the club to become coach of the El Salvador national team. Paredes led the El Salvador team to the Central American and Caribbean titles in 2002. He quit as manager of Independiente Nacional 1906 in September 2006.

Once Municipal

Juan Ramón Paredes was signed as coach of

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on 10 March 2008 after the shock resignation of

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. However Juan Ramón Paredes could not reverse the terrible form slump of

after only 8 matches in charge with only 3 draws and 5 losses to show for it (including a 5-2 defeat by Isidro Metapán). Paredes resigned as coach on 27 April.

Other Coaching Duties

In October 2009 he replaced Victor Girón at Fuerte Aguilares and in May 2010 Paredes signed up with fellow Second division side

Municipal Limeño Club Deportivo Municipal Limeño is a professional Salvadoran football club based in Santa Rosa de Lima, La Unión, El Salvador. Their home stadium is Estadio Jose Ramon Flores, with a capacity of 5,000. Limeño have won five Segunda Divisió ...

for the remainder of the 2010 Clausura season. In October 2010 he joined Atlético Marte, replacing Luis Guevara Mora who was moved upstairs to become Director of Sports.Juan Ramón Paredes nuevo técnico del Atlético Marte
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Alianza

Paredes has been given again coaching duties in Alianza after the team losing the clásico against Águila at home. Paredes is replacing interim coach Cárcamo Batres.

Titles

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paredes, Juan Ramon 1950 births Living people People from La Libertad Department (El Salvador) Salvadoran footballers Expatriate soccer players in the United States Salvadoran expatriate sportspeople in the United States Salvadoran expatriate footballers Salvadoran football managers C.D. Águila managers Municipal Limeño managers El Salvador national football team managers Association footballers not categorized by position