Rubén Darío Amorín Mattos (born in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

 former football player and coach.

Coaching career

He has spent the majority of his coaching career in Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

, where he won a record eight national titles with three different clubs from 1964 to 1992, and took CSD Municipal

CSD Municipal

Club Social y Deportivo Municipal, also known as Municipal or Los Rojos , are a Guatemalan professional football club based in Guatemala City...

 to win the CONCACAF

CONCACAF

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...

 championship in 1974, the only time a Guatemalan club has won that title.

He also had five different tenures as coach of the Guatemala national team

Guatemala national football team

The Guatemala national football team is the association football team representing the country of Guatemala and is controlled by the Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala. Founded in 1919, it affiliated to FIFA in 1946, and it is a member of CONCACAF....

, winning the 1967 NORCECA Championship which is the highest international honor for that national team to date.

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.