Rodolfo Richardson Smith (born 24 February 1963, in

San Pedro Sula San Pedro Sula () is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 701, ...

)Richardson Smith entrena niños en Estados Unidos: "Este país me ha tratado muy bien"
- Diez is a retired Honduran

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Club career

Smith began playing football in the

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras Liga (Spanish and Portuguese: ''League'') or LIGA may refer to: Sports Basketball * Liga ACB, men's professional basketball league in Spain * Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, women's professional basketball league in Spain Football Latin Amer ...

with Marathón and

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. He won the

1990–91 Honduran Liga Nacional The 1990–91 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 25th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament consisted of a three round-robins followed by a 5-team playoff round. Club Deportivo Olimpia unsuccessfully defended it ...

title with Real España, scoring two goals in the final against Motagua. In 1988, he moved abroad to play in Mexico with

Correcaminos UAT Club de Fútbol Correcaminos de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, simply known as Correcaminos UAT, is a Mexican professional football club based in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. It competes in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level divisi ...

. He would spend four seasons in the

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with Correcaminos and

Club Universidad de Guadalajara Club Deportivo Leones Negros de la Universidad de Guadalajara, abbreviated and simply known as Leones Negros UdeG, is a Mexican professional football club based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, that currently plays in Liga de Expansión MX, the second ...

. He also had a six-month spell with C.A. Peñarol in the

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International career

Richardson Smith made his debut for

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in the 1980s and has earned over 30 caps, scoring 11 goals. He has represented his country in 15

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matches and played at the

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. He played as a defender in his last match, covering for an injury to Luis Pineda, in a 3–1

loss against

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on 6 November 1996. He lost the ball on the edge of the area which led to a Mexico goal, and fans attacked his house in

with stones and fireworks after the match. The incident prompted him to announce his retirement from the national team.

International goals

Managerial career

After retiring as a player, Richardson Smith was assistant-coach at several clubs and became manager of Municipal Valencia for the 2004 Apertura season. After spending time in the US as a youth team coach at Evergreen United and Juventus Strikers, he was named as possible manager of

Deportes Savio Deportes Savio Fútbol Club, commonly known as Deportes Savio, is a professional Honduran football club based in Santa Rosa de Copán. The club was founded in 1974, and participates in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras. In 2 ...

in December 2012.Richardson Smith es candidato para dirigir al Deportes Savio
- La Tribuna As of August 2015, he was still working with children in the USA.

Honours and awards

Club

;C.D. Real Espana *

Liga Profesional de Honduras Liga (Spanish and Portuguese: ''League'') or LIGA may refer to: Sports Basketball * Liga ACB, men's professional basketball league in Spain * Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, women's professional basketball league in Spain Football Latin Ameri ...

(2): 1990–91, 1993–94 ;C.D. Marathón *

(1): 1985–86

Country

;Honduras *

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(1):

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Richardson 1963 births Living people Footballers from San Pedro Sula Men's association football midfielders Honduran men's footballers Honduras men's international footballers C.D. Marathón players Real C.D. España players Correcaminos UAT footballers Leones Negros UdeG footballers Peñarol players Liga MX players Honduran expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Uruguay Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Uruguay