Enrique Alfaro (footballer)

Enrique Alfaro
Personal information
Full name	Enrique Alfaro Rojas
Date of birth	11 December 1974 (age 49)
Place of birth	Mexico City, Mexico
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1994–2002	Toluca
International career
1996–1998	Mexico
Managerial career
2007–2010	Toluca Reserves and Academy
2016	Tepic (Assistant)
2016–2017	Toluca (Assistant)
2023	Juárez (Assistant)
Medal record
Representing Mexico
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Enrique Alfaro (born 11 December 1974) is a Mexican former football midfielder. He spent most of his career with Toluca, playing from 1994 to 2002.

An attacking midfielder who normally lined up on the right side of the midfield line or in a three-forward attack, Alfaro played a key part in Toluca's championship runs during the Verano tournaments of 1998, 1999, and 2000.^[1]

Alfaro also had a successful international career. As part of the Under-23 selection, he represented Mexico at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, appearing in all four matches.^[2] He also collected 20 full caps for Mexico, including five qualifiers for the 1998 FIFA World Cup,^[2] and played on Mexico's title-winning squad at the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup.^[3] A favorite selection at the beginning of the regime of Bora Milutinovic, Alfaro gradually slipped down the pecking order with the emergence of Luis Hernandez and Cuauhtémoc Blanco as the preferred strikers under Milutinovic's successor, Manuel Lapuente. He collected his first cap against Bolivia in a 1–0 win at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on 8 June 1996,^[4] and made his last international appearance on 18 March 1998, in a 1–1 draw with Paraguay.^[5]