Roger Mayorga

Roger Mayorga was a Nicaraguan football goalkeeper.

Club career

Regarded as the finest of Nicaraguan goalkeepers alongside Salvador Dubois, Mayorga played his club football for Club Dinamo, Rincon Espanol, Milca Roja and Flor de Caña FC in his homeland Nicaragua and spent time abroad playing for América de Cali in Colombia, Águila in El Salvador and Aurora in Guatemala.

He had a lengthy spell with F.C. Motagua, for whom he would play 123 games, and played for Universidad, Marathón and Super Estrella de Danlí in Honduras. He retired aged 38.
He holds the record of most successive clean sheets in the Honduran league, 10 matches without a goal conceded between 22 February 1976 and 9 May 1976.

Mayorga maintains a record of 838 minutes without conceiving a goal playing for F.C. Motagua in 1976.

His parents were Bienvenida Mayorga and Julio Gutiérrez. He lived with his family in Arizona, with family in NY. He died on 5 October 2019 in Managua at the age of 73 due to a heart attack.