Davis Hodgson
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Born: Bluefields, Nicaragua c. 1954
Davis Hodgson has managed and coached for the Nicaraguan national team. He has also been a successful manager in the Nicaraguan Amateur League. It is likely that he was a player too when younger, although no information has surfaced to date.
- He made his managerial debut in the 1987 Intercontinental Cup, where Nicaragua went 2-6.
- In 1989, he and the national team returned to Cuba for the José Antonio Huelga tournament, a qualifier for the World Championship in Edmonton, Alberta the following year. That year he also won a championship at home with Costa Atlántica.
- He also led the Nicaraguan squad to a 4-2 mark in the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games, the fourth edition of those games. That mark was good for second place behind El Salvador -- a disappointment marked by the absence of various key players and the indisposition of others because of the time the games were played.
- Hodgson was absent from the international stage for many years, although he continued to manage at home in Nicaragua. He won back-to-back championships in 2000 with Norte and 2001 with León.
- In 2003, then skipper of the Chinandega club, he cited prejudice. "With just the color of my skin and because I am from the Atlantic Coast, the National Police presume that I am a drug trafficker. This is humiliating and an abuse of my human rights as a Nicaraguan citizen."
- However, he returned to manage the team in the 2009 Baseball World Cup.
