Rodrigo Kenton
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Rodrigo Kenton Johnson (born March 05, 1955) is a Costa Rican soccer player and coach. In Costa Rica's first division, he started his career by playing woth his hometown team, AD Limonense. He then went on to play for several teams, such as Deportivo Saprissa, were he won his only national championship in 1981, AD Ramonense, Puntarenas F.C., Sagrada Familia F.C., AD Guanacasteca and Asociacion Deportiva San Carlos.
He retired from professional football in 1989, and began a very successful and international coaching career. His first coaching job was as assistant coach to Bora Milutinovic in the Costa Rica's national squad that played the Italy 1990 held in Italy, where Costa Rica had a great performance and reached the second round, against all odds.
In Costa Rica, he has had short coaching periods Costa Rica's first division, with C.S. Herediano and L.D. Alajuelense during the mid-90´s, but neither team gave him enough time to build his ideas and process. So, he went back to international football and in 1998, he was asked by Milutinovic to be his assistant coach again, this time with the Nigeria national football team that played the France 1998 that took place in France.
By the early 2000´s, he took charge of the the Costa Rica national football team U-23, and classified them at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens. Again, his team had a great performance and reached the second round, eliminating favorites such as Portugal. He was then selected by FIFA to be part of the international official Technical Study Group for the Germany 2006, along worldwide renowned football experts and coaches such as Francisco Maturana, Roger Milla, Andy Roxburgh, Teofilo Cubillas, Jozef Venglos, and others.
Currently, he coaches the Guatemala national football team U-23, in hope to classify them to the 2008 Summer Olympics that will take place in Beijing.
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