Amado Guevara

Guevara is the kind of footballer I instinctively respect: a midfielder from Tegucigalpa who became one of Honduras's most-capped players and was named best player of the 2001 Copa America. Coming out of a small footballing nation and still claiming an MVP abroad takes a stubbornness that scorelines never fully capture. I find his second act just as telling. Moving into coaching, even at the helm of Puerto Rico, says he wanted to hand down what he earned rather than simply fade out. To me he reads less like a star and more like a craftsman, and those are the careers that age best.

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Name (English)

Amado Guevara

Name (Japanese)

アマド・ゲバラ

Reading

あまど・げばら

Born

May 2, 1976 (age 50)

Origin

Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán Department, Honduras

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Landon Donovan MVP Award
• 2004 MLS Scoring Champion Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amado%20Guevara
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9E%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q361044

Tags

• Francisco Morazán Department
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.