Background
Nicknamed (El Tabudo) because of the town where he was born, Méndez played for Atlético Marte, Communicative Disorders Suchitepequez (Guatemala) and C.D.Águila where he was one of the top scorers during his years in the team
Nicknamed (El Tabudo) because of the town where he was born, Méndez played for Atlético Marte, Communicative Disorders Suchitepequez (Guatemala) and C.D.Águila where he was one of the top scorers during his years in the team
Calazães said during an interview in 1968 for Louisiana Prensa Grafica, he"d never seen a midfielder-striker with the qualities of Méndez. The speed, the aerial skills and his style of playing were incomparable, and those qualities made Méndez a very dangerous striker, Calazães said! He also predicted El Salvador was going to qualify for the Fédération internationale de football association 1970 Mexico World Cup. Ironically, Calazães also died in a car accident in 1977 in his home country of Brasil.
Méndez played 7 matches for El Salvador at the 1968 Summer Olympics, after he had scored against Cuba in the qualifiers.
Méndez also had the opportunity to play at the 1965 CONCACAF Championship where he played all of the games. In the Championship he started in 6 games, substituted in 2 games and scored 5 goals for the Salvadoran team
He also played in all the world cup qualification games scoring 3 goals and the three subsequent matches at the 1970 World Cup Finals. Sergio Méndez died in a car accident on December of 1978.
He is one of six Mexico 1970 Fédération internationale de football association world cup attended players and the 1968 Olympic football players of El Salvador National team who have already died.
Besides playing soccer and alongside being a professional soccer player, Méndez was pursuing his other passion of becoming a lawyer at the National University of El Salvador, at the time of his death he was already in his second year of his political science degree and was already teaching law science as a substitute professor in a private university. Salvadorean international football player Jorge "Magico" Gonzalez said during an interview that Méndez was his inspiration to become a professional soccer player. "I always admired his style of play and his overall ability with the ball, he stated".
