Enrique Alfaro Football player
Enrique Alfaro (born December 11, 1974) is a retired Mexican football midfielder. He spent most of his career with Club 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. Alfaro also had a successful international career. As part of the Under-23 selection, he represented Mexico at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also collected 20 full caps for Mexico, including many qualifiers for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and played on Mexico's title-winning squad at the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup. 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 Cuauhtemoc 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 June 8, 1996, and made his last international appearance on March 18, 1998, in a 1-1 draw with Paraguay.