{{short description|Costa Rican footballer (born 1960)}} {{family name hatnote|Guardia|Morales|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox football biography |name = Guillermo Guardia |image = |caption = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE --> |fullname = Guillermo Guardia Morales |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|2|27}} |birth_place = San José, Costa Rica |height = {{convert|1.70|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |position = Striker |clubnumber = |youthyears1= |youthclubs1= |years1= 1978–1985 |clubs1= Saprissa |caps1 = | goals1 = |years2= 1986 |clubs2= San Carlos |years3= 1987–1988 |clubs3= Alajuelense |years4= 1989–1990 |clubs4= Uruguay de Coronado |years5= 1991–1992 |clubs5= Turrialba |years6= 1992–1993 |clubs6= Limonense |caps6 = | goals6 = 14 |years7= 1994–1996 |clubs7= Pérez Zeledón |totalcaps = - | totalgoals = 149 |nationalyears1= 1983–1984 |nationalteam1= Costa Rica |nationalcaps1= | nationalgoals1 = |manageryears1 = 1997–2000 |managerclubs1 = Pérez Zeledón |manageryears2 = 2001–2002 |managerclubs2 = Santa Bárbara |manageryears3 = 2002 |managerclubs3 = Municipal Liberia |manageryears4 = 2003–2004 |managerclubs4 = San Carlos |pcupdate = |ntupdate = 1 June 2014 }} ''' Guillermo Guardia Morales''' (born 27 February 1960) is considered one of the best Costa Rican soccer strikers during the 1980s.
==Club career== Nicknamed ''Nica'', Guardia played the greatest years of his career for Deportivo Saprissa, where he became the best goal scorer of the Costa Rica's first division during 1981, year when Saprissa finished being the champion. Later he played for Alajuelense and San Carlos among others, totalling 7 different clubs.<ref>[http://wvw.nacion.com/ln_ee/2009/marzo/19/deportes1910341.html Nuevo récord en futbol de Primera División Benwell: el de más equipos] - Nación {{in lang|es}}</ref> He is especially remembered for saving an Alajuelense penalty kick when Turrialba goalkeeper Miguel Segura was sent off in a league game and Guardia replaced him in goal on 31 May 1992.<ref>[http://www.nacion.com/blogs/el_otro_futbol/goleador-atajo-penal_10_1369763012.html Guillermo Guardia El goleador que atajó un penal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801031018/http://www.nacion.com/blogs/el_otro_futbol/goleador-atajo-penal_10_1369763012.html |date=2014-08-01 }} - Nación {{in lang|es}}</ref>
Guardia's great scoring talents and quickness, helped him and teammate Evaristo Coronado form a lethal duo in the early 80s in Saprissa. He scored a total of 149 league goals.<ref>[http://www.unafut.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:club-de-los-100&catid=5:comision-de-historia-y-estadistica&Itemid=34 Club de los 100] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701132919/http://www.unafut.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:club-de-los-100&catid=5:comision-de-historia-y-estadistica&Itemid=34 |date=2017-07-01 }} - UNAFUT {{in lang|es}}</ref>
==International career== He played with the Costa Rica national football team as well, and was part of Costa Rican squad that played at the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles.<ref>{{FIFA player|199802}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=Sports Reference|title=Guillermo Guardia|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/guillermo-guardia-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418085934/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/guillermo-guardia-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18|accessdate=2009-03-29}}</ref>
==Managerial career== After retiring, he began his coaching career, and has managed several teams in Costa Rica's first division, such as Pérez Zeledón,<ref>[http://wvw.nacion.com/ln_ee/1999/noviembre/08/deportes11.html Guardia recrimina a su plantel] - Nación {{in lang|es}}</ref> Municipal Liberia<ref>[http://wvw.nacion.com/ln_ee/2002/agosto/27/deportes2.html Sótano perturba a Liberia] - Nación {{in lang|es}}</ref> and San Carlos.<ref>[http://wvw.nacion.com/ln_ee/2003/marzo/18/deportes5.html Guardia dirige a San Carlos] - Nación {{in lang|es}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Costa Rica Squad 1984 Summer Olympics}} {{Costa Rican Primera División top scorers}}
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