Rubén Darío Amorín Mattos (6 November 1927 – 24 December 2014) was a Uruguayan

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. He was born in Rocha.

Playing career

Amorín arrived in 1952 in Guatemala to play for Guatemala FC.

Coaching career

He has spent the majority of his coaching career in Guatemala, where he won a record eight national titles with three clubs from 1964 to 1992, He took Municipal and Comunicaciones to win the CONCACAF Champions Cup in

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. He also had five tenures as coach of the Guatemala national team, winning the 1967 NORCECA Championship (now the CONCACAF Gold Cup) which is the highest international honor for that national team to date. He retired in 1994. Due to his success at both the club and international level, Amorín has been catalogued as the greatest coach in the history of Guatemalan football by the local press and by many observers. On 24 December 2014, he died of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 87.Ruben Amorin Tecnico fallece mas grande Uruguay-Guatemala
- Prensa Libre

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1927 births Footballers from Montevideo Uruguayan footballers Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Guatemala Expatriate footballers in Guatemala Uruguayan football managers Expatriate football managers in Guatemala C.S.D. Municipal managers Comunicaciones F.C. managers C.D. FAS managers 2014 deaths Deaths from dementia in Guatemala Deaths from Alzheimer's disease Aurora F.C. managers Association football midfielders Guatemala national football team managers {{uruguay-footy-bio-stub