Enrique Rivers

Enrique Rivers Gutiérrez (born 4 January 1961 in Limón) became one of the most famous Costa Rican football players during the 1980s.

Enrique Rivers
Personal information
Full name Enrique Rivers Gutiérrez
Date of birth (1961-01-04) January 4, 1961
Place of birth Limón, Costa Rica
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1979 Limonense
1980–1984 Saprissa
1985 Comunicaciones
1985 Guanacasteca
1986 Saprissa
1987–1988 Limonense (10)
1990–1991 Herediano
1992–1993 Limonense
National team
1983–1989 Costa Rica 13 (1)
Teams managed
1995–1996 Belén (assistant)
1996–1997 Herediano (assistant)
1997–2000 Saprissa (assistant)
2000 Limonense
2001 Saprissa
2012– Saprissa de Corazón
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rivers and the second or maternal family name is Gutiérrez.

Club career

Rivers made his debut in the Costa Rica Primera División in 1978 with hometown club Limonense.[1]

He played most of his career with Saprissa, as well as for Comunicaciones in Guatemala and Herediano. He retired in 1993.

International career

Rivers made his debut for Costa Rica in a March 1983 friendly match against Mexico and he is mostly remembered for scoring the goal against Italy's national team during the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles.[2][3] At that period of time, the Italians were the World Cup champions, and their defeat against Costa Rica was a historic event in the football world.

His final international was a May 1989 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Trinidad & Tobago.

Managerial career

After retiring from professional football, Rivers was assistant to manager Alexandre Guimarães for five years at Belén, Herediano and Saprissa, where they won the 1998 and 1999 local championships. His first job in charge was at Limonense in 2000[1] and he was head coach of Deportivo Saprissa for a short period of time as well, but decided to focus on the coordinating tasks for Saprissa's minor league system, where he has been able to discover and recruit young kids and launch them into successful football careers. In December 2012 he was put in charge of Saprissa's reserve team, Saprissa de Corazón, in the second division.[4]

References
  1. "Quiero orden"•Enrique Rivers, técnico limonense, procura disciplina y lucha en su equipo - Nación (in Spanish)
  2. Enrique Rivers – FIFA competition record
  3. "Enrique Rivers". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
  4. Rivers dirigirá al Saprissa de Corazón Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine - Al Día (in Spanish)


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