Rolando Torino

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Torino and the second or maternal family name is Flores.

Rolando Torino

Personal information
Full name	Segundo Rolando Torino Flores
Date of birth	(1929-07-10)10 July 1929
Place of birth	Caleta Río Seco, Iquique, Chile
Date of death	24 October 2018(2018-10-24) (aged 89)
Place of death	Guatemala City, Guatemala
Youth career
1945–1946	Iquique (city team)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1947–1948	Copiapó (city team)
1949–1950	Chillán (city team)
1951	Universidad de Chile
1952	Colo-Colo
1953	Instituto O'Higgins
Managerial career
1954–1958	Universidad de Chile (assistant)
1959–1961	Universidad de Chile (youth)
	Universidad de Chile (caretaker)
1961	San Bernardo Central [es]
1962–1963	San Antonio Unido
1964	Transandino
1966	Chile (amateur)
1967–1969	Audax Italiano
	Colchagua
	Soinca Bata
1972	Naval
1973	Cementos Novella [es]
	Juventud Retalteca
	Antigua GFC
	Xelajú MC
	Deportivo Zacapa
1983	Unión La Calera
1984–1985	Tipografía Nacional
1986	Municipal
	Juventud Olímpica
1989–1990	Dragón
	Águila
	Marathón
1993–1994	Deportivo Zacapa
1994–1995	Deportivo Amatitlán
2009–2010	Deportivo Coatepeque
2010–2011	Heredia Jaguares
2011–2012	Deportivo Zacapa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Segundo Rolando Torino Flores (10 July 1929 – 24 October 2018), known as Rolando Torino, was a Chilean football manager and player.

Early years

Born in Caleta Río Seco, Iquique, Torino belonged to a well-known sports family from that city bound to Club Rápido. He played football for the youth team of Iquique (1945–46), but he also reinforced the senior teams of both Copiapó (1947–48) and Chillán (1949–50).^[1]

Playing career

In 1951, he made his professional debut in Universidad de Chile. Next he played for Colo-Colo (1952) and Instituto O'Higgins (1953, later O'Higgins F.C.).^[1]

Coaching career

He mainly developed his extensive career in Central America.^[2]

Following his retirement as a footballer, Torino began his coaching career as the assistant coach of Luis Álamos in Universidad de Chile and after worked as coach of the youth system and caretaker for the first team from 1959 to 1961. In Chile, he also coached San Bernardo Central ^[es], San Antonio Unido, Trasandino, Audax Italiano, Colchagua, Soinca Bata, Naval and Unión La Calera.^[1] For San Antonio Unido, he was the first coach in its professional history from 1962 to 1963, becoming the runner-up in the 1962 Segunda División.^[2]

At national teams level, he coached the Chile national amateur team in 1966.^[1]

Torino came to Guatemala to coach Cementos Novella ^[es] in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol at the beginning of the 1970s. In that country, he also coached Juventud Retalteca,^[3] Antigua GFC, Xelajú MC, Deportivo Zacapa,^[4] Tipografía Nacional, Municipal, Deportivo Amatitlán, Deportivo Coatepeque and Heredia Jaguares.^[5]

He is one of the five Chilean coaches who have led Municipal along with Luis Grill Prieto, Jaime Hormazábal, Javier Mascaró and Fernando Díaz. During his stint with Municipal, he led the team in two derbies against Comunicaciones, with draws as results.^[6]

In the 1980s and the 1990s, he led Juventud Olímpica, Dragón^[7] and Águila in El Salvador and Marathón in Honduras.^[4] He also had stints with clubs in the United States.^[1]

In Guatemala, he also worked as a teller for future football managers along with his Chilean colleague Jaime Hormazábal^[8] and as a coach for holiday football academies.^[9]

Personal life

Born in Iquique, he moved to Santiago and attended the Abelardo Núñez Normal School, where he graduated as a PE teacher in 1951.^[10]

He made his home in Guatemala and his grandsons, Pablo and Javier Melgar Torino,^[11] were Guatemalan professional football defenders.^[4]

He died of natural causes^[1] on 23 October 2018 in Guatemala City and his body was cremated.^[12]

References

1. Vidal Jorquera, Mario (27 October 2018). "En Centroamérica falleció ex crack del fútbol iquiqueño". docplayer.es (in Spanish). El Longino. p. 23. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
2. "A los 89 murió el histórico ex técnico de San Antonio Unido Rolando Torino Flores". SoyChile (in Spanish). 24 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
3. Y EL DIEZ DE DON MARIO FERRETI..., QUE ES UN DIEZ...? 100 AÑOS De Futbol (Guatemala) on Facebook (in Spanish)
4. @lrsolares (22 October 2018). "HASTA SIEMPRE, DON ROLANDO" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 October 2022 – via Twitter.
5. "Rolando Torino Flores". www.playmakerstats.com. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
6. "Los chilenos en el banco rojo". Antorcha Deportiva (in Spanish). 12 November 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
7. "¡Qué pasó con Hugo Daniel Güelmo?". elsalvador.com (in Spanish). 23 December 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
8. "Entrevista: Sergio Pardo (DT)". PeloterosCM (in Spanish). 30 January 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
9. "INICIO CURSO DE ESCUELA DE VACACIONES FEDEFUT 2012". www.fedefutguate.org (in Spanish). 30 December 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
10. Hoy el lila está de luto, tras la muerte de Don Rolando Torino Flores San Antonio Unido OFICIAL on Facebook (in Spanish)
11. "Javier Melgar :: Javier Alejandro Melgar Torino ::". www.ceroacero.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 October 2022.
12. "Funerales Reforma, lamenta el sensible fallecimiento de Segundo Rolando Torino Flores". reforma.com.gt (in Spanish). 23 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2022.

External links

• Rolando Torino at PlaymakerStats