Managerial career Nicknamed
El Sastre ("the tailor"), Alfonso Huapaya played for
Mariscal Sucre in the 1930s. After becoming a coach, he won the
Peruvian championship in 1944 with the same club. Between 1950 and 1952, he managed
Sport Boys, leading them to the 1951 championship, the first of Peru's professional era. Simultaneously, he coached the
Peruvian national team at the
1952 Panamerican Championship in Santiago, Chile. He returned to Sport Boys for a second stint between 1954 and 1955. In 1960, he was appointed head coach of
Alianza Lima, a team boasting talented players such as
Adolfo Riquelme (goalkeeper),
Guillermo Delgado,
Adolfo Donayre,
Guillermo Barbadillo,
Félix Castillo, and
Víctor Zegarra. Despite a strong start to the season (five wins in the first seven matches), the team finished mid-table (6th out of 10). In 1971, he won the
Second Division championship with
Deportivo SIMA. His last experience as a manager was in 1992, at the age of 80, at the helm of
Deportivo Yurimaguas.
Death He died on April 16, 2009, at his home in the
Chaclacayo district of Lima. As a tribute, the
Peruvian Football Federation named its football coaching institute after him (cf. external links). == Honours (manager) ==