{"id":2466,"date":"2023-03-03T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juanluisboschgutierrez.com\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2024-06-18T16:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T22:54:54","slug":"who-is-amarini-villatoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juanluisboschgutierrez.com\/en\/who-is-amarini-villatoro\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Amarini Villatoro?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The national coach, Amarini Villatoro, is the coach in vogue in Guatemalan soccer. However, very few know the struggle and work behind the success of the first two-time departmental champion in the history of Guatemalan soccer.<\/p>\n

He was born in Cob\u00e1n, Guatemala<\/a> and spent most of his childhood in Raxruh\u00e1 and Sayaxch\u00e9. Since he was a child he had an affluent life and was able to visit great places and study a lot. He dreamed of becoming a doctor, but ended up studying law. Although he makes a living as a soccer coach, he realized that his true passion is on the soccer fields.<\/p>\n

To talk about soccer with Amarini you have to have time and be very attentive. He has many stories and above all a life testimony that allows him to speak with total solvency about the king of sports in his country. He knows the ins and outs of national soccer, since he started coaching children as a hobby at a very young age, without knowing that this would change his life.<\/p>\n

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How did Amarini Villatoro become a coach?<\/h2>\n

“A priest in Cob\u00e1n asked me to help him train children in a red light district. I had time, I only studied at night at the University and had most of the day off. With that church team we soon won the U12 tournament and that awakened my enthusiasm,” he said.<\/p>\n

Soon it was time to manage the basic forces of Cob\u00e1n Imperial, when the Costa Rican Spaniard Juan Luis Hern\u00e1ndez Fuertes, who is not remembered with much affection in the land of Carlos V because he relegated the team, took the reins.<\/p>\n

“It was my first real experience, unfortunately it only lasted a couple of tournaments because in the First Division the special teams only played one tournament. But Juan Luis gave me the opportunity to prepare myself in Costa Rica and above all to mature as a coach,” he recalled.<\/p>\n

He returned to Guatemala to coach “Los Potros”<\/h2>\n

When he returned to Cob\u00e1n<\/a>, he was offered the chance to coach Los Potros de el Tecnol\u00f3gico, a school that began its career in the Third Division, where it achieved promotion to the Second Division with only school kids, and then sought promotion to the First Division, but lost to Teculut\u00e1n. From there he went to Sayaxch\u00e9.<\/p>\n

With La Furia Verde he achieved promotion to the First Division and even reached the final for promotion to the National League and lost to Gabriel “El Chato” Castillo’s Coatepeque at the Israel Barrios stadium.<\/p>\n