Sergio Méndez

Sergio Méndez died in a car accident in December 1976. He is one of six Mexico 1970 FIFA world cup attended players and the 1968 Olympic footballers of El Salvador National team who have already died. Méndez was a very good friend of footballer Jose Antonio (Ruso) Quintanilla, they were also teammates in C.D. Atletico Marte and the national team.

Méndez was a very good friend of Brazilian defender Zózimo Alves Calazães, both met while playing for CD Aguila. Calazães said during an interview in 1968 for La 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". He also predicted El Salvador was going to qualify for the FIFA 1970 Mexico World Cup. Ironically, Calazães also died in an automobile accident in 1977.

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 de Jesús Méndez Bolaños (14 February 1943 – 18 December 1976) was a football player from El Salvador who represented his country at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.