New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

The Most Famous

SOCCER PLAYERS from El Salvador

Icon of occuation in country

This page contains a list of the greatest Salvadoran Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 16,880 Soccer Players, 9 of which were born in El Salvador. This makes El Salvador the birth place of the 100th most number of Soccer Players behind Cyprus and Guadeloupe.

Top 9

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Salvadoran Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Salvadoran Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

Photo of Mágico González

1. Mágico González (1958 - )

With an HPI of 48.27, Mágico González is the most famous Salvadoran Soccer Player.  Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Jorge Alberto González Barillas (born 13 March 1958), popularly known as El Mágico (The Magical One), is a Salvadoran former professional footballer who played mainly as a forward. At the club level, he played mainly for FAS and Spain's Cádiz in a 24-year senior career. Dogged by his self-admitted and often-reported lack of discipline, he was often hailed as the greatest and most skilled footballer ever produced by El Salvador, and as one of the greatest players from the CONCACAF region. González represented the El Salvador national team for more than two decades, taking part in the 1982 World Cup and the 1998 Gold Cup.

Photo of Jaime Rodríguez

2. Jaime Rodríguez (1959 - )

With an HPI of 45.78, Jaime Rodríguez is the 2nd most famous Salvadoran Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 46 different languages.

Jaime Alberto Rodríguez Jiménez (born 17 January 1959) is a former football player from El Salvador. He represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.

Photo of Raúl Magaña

3. Raúl Magaña (1940 - 2009)

With an HPI of 40.94, Raúl Magaña is the 3rd most famous Salvadoran Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Raúl Alfredo Magaña Monzón (24 February 1940 – 30 September 2009) was a Salvadoran footballer and manager. He is regarded as one of the greats of Salvadoran football.

Photo of Hugo Pérez

4. Hugo Pérez (1963 - )

With an HPI of 37.87, Hugo Pérez is the 4th most famous Salvadoran Soccer Player.  Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Hugo Ernesto Pérez Granados (born November 8, 1963) is a former professional soccer player and coach who previously coached the El Salvador national from 2021 to 2023. Born in El Salvador, he represented the United States national team. During his fourteen-year career, he played professionally in the United States, France, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and his native El Salvador. Although born in El Salvador, he gained his U.S. citizenship as a youth and earned 73 caps, scoring sixteen goals, with the U.S. national team between 1984 and 1994. He was a member of the U.S. team at both the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He was the 1991 U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year and was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2008.

Photo of Luis Ramírez Zapata

5. Luis Ramírez Zapata (1954 - )

With an HPI of 36.99, Luis Ramírez Zapata is the 5th most famous Salvadoran Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Luis Baltazar Ramírez Zapata (born 6 January 1954) is a retired Salvadoran footballer.

Photo of José María Rivas

6. José María Rivas (1958 - 2016)

With an HPI of 35.13, José María Rivas is the 6th most famous Salvadoran Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

José María Rivas Martínez (12 May 1958 – 9 January 2016) was a football player from El Salvador.

Photo of Raúl Díaz Arce

7. Raúl Díaz Arce (1970 - )

With an HPI of 31.32, Raúl Díaz Arce is the 7th most famous Salvadoran Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Raúl Díaz Arce (born February 1, 1970) is a Salvadoran former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is El Salvador's most prolific goal scorer, with 39 goals in just 68 appearances.

Photo of Alfredo Pacheco

8. Alfredo Pacheco (1982 - 2015)

With an HPI of 28.67, Alfredo Pacheco is the 8th most famous Salvadoran Soccer Player.  Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Alfredo Alberto Pacheco (December 1, 1982 – December 27, 2015) was a Salvadoran footballer who had the record for most appearances on the El Salvador national football team when he was banned for life in 2013, for match-fixing while playing for the national team. He was murdered on December 27, 2015.

Photo of Nelson Bonilla

9. Nelson Bonilla (1990 - )

With an HPI of 24.44, Nelson Bonilla is the 9th most famous Salvadoran Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Nelson David Bonilla Rivera (born 11 September 1990) is a Salvadoran professional footballer who plays as a striker for Thai League 1 club Sukhothai and the El Salvador national team.

People

Pantheon has 9 people classified as soccer players born between 1940 and 1990. Of these 9, 6 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living soccer players include Mágico González, Jaime Rodríguez, and Hugo Pérez. The most famous deceased soccer players include Raúl Magaña, José María Rivas, and Alfredo Pacheco. As of April 2022, 4 new soccer players have been added to Pantheon including Raúl Magaña, Luis Ramírez Zapata, and José María Rivas.

Living Soccer Players

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Deceased Soccer Players

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Newly Added Soccer Players (2022)

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL