Roberto Rivas

Rivas in 1970
Personal information
Full name	Roberto Rivas González
Date of birth	(1941-07-17)July 17, 1941
Place of birth	Soyapango, El Salvador
Date of death	1972 (aged 30–31)
Position(s)	Right Back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1960–1970	Alianza
International career
1967–1970	El Salvador	30	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roberto Rivas González (17 July 1941 – 8 February 1972) was a football player from El Salvador who played as a defender.

Nicknamed La Burra (The Donkey), Rivas was a one-club man and has only played for Alianza during the 1960s and won two league titles in 1965 and 1966 when he played alongside fellow club legends like José Quintanilla, Mario Monge and Francisco Zamora.

Rivas has represented his country in 10 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played at the 1968 Olympic Games and at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.^[1]

Rivas died in a suicide in 1972.^[2] By June 2010, Rivas was one of six 1968 Olympic footballers of El Salvador who had already died.^[3] Alianza retired the number 2 shirt in honour of Rivas.^[4]

• En la decada de los 70's El Alianza tubo 4 futbolistas grandes 2 defenzas un medio campista y un delantero pero desafortunadamente Fallecieron uno se mato el solo otro fue acribillado el otro accidente de transito y el otro Ahogado (in Spanish)