The soccer player of Mexican origin Manuel Rosas, who triumphed in Nicaraguan soccer, retired after 12 years of professional career in the Central American country, whose colors he defended as a national team, the Nicaraguan Soccer Federation (Fenifut) reported Thursday.
“Today one of the most important footballers in recent years for our senior team announced his retirement, Manuel Rosas represented the Blue and White in more than 50 games, also being one of the benchmarks and captains of our national team,” Fenifut said. , in reporting on the footballer’s retirement.
Rosas, a left back known in Nicaragua as “Meño”, retired at the age of 38, after a successful career with the Real Estelí club, where he played 12 seasons, won 16 national titles, and scored 37 goals.
Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Rosas became a Nicaraguan national at the end of 2012 to be international with Nicaragua, a team of which he was captain, and with which he played 55 games, scoring three goals, two in official games, between 2013 and 2021.
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With the “Blue and White”, one of the most discreet teams in Central America, the footballer played the Central American Cup (2013, 2014 and 2017), the Russia 2014 and Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifiers, the 2018-2019 League of Nations qualifier , the 2019-2020 League of Nations, as well as the 2017 and 2019 Gold Cup, Fenifut detailed.
Although the popularity and quality of the Mexican-Nicaraguan made him one of the most beloved captains of the “Blue and White”, not everything was “rosy”, since in 2019 he created controversies by denouncing the Nicaraguan internationals were reconcentrated in conditions that supposedly did not correspond to those of a national team.
The figure of Rosas, a former player of the Tigres Mochi, Morelia, or Cubs UANL, who before trying his luck in Nicaragua had been away from the fields for two years, grew over the years in Nicaraguan soccer, and in a farewell video , his lifelong team called him a “legend”.
