Carlos Watson

Carlos Enrique Watson Simes (born November 22, 1951) is a former Costa Rican soccer player and general coach for several Costa Rican soccer teams, including national teams. Watson played for his hometown team Limón, as well as Club Sport Herediano. His career as a coach is much more notable, as he has been the coach for Costa Rica's three most important teams, Deportivo Saprissa, Club Sport Herediano and LD Alajuelense. With Saprissa he won the CONCACAF Champions Cup in 1995 and with LD Alajuelense he won two national championships, in 1983 and 1984.

As a player, he began his career with his hometown team A.D. Limón, and was then transferred to Club Sport Herediano, where he won three national titles during the 70's.

Watson is known in his country more as an excellent coach for minor leagues than everything else. For instance, as General Manager for Saprissa's minor leagues in the mid-1990s, he discovered an excellent generation of players that are still playing soccer in Costa Rica, some as internationals. He then took over the job as coach for Costa Rica's U-20 national team, with whom he went on to participate in two World Cups, or under 20 Football World Youth Championships. The first one was held at Nigeria in 1999 and the second one in Argentina in 2001, taking the team to the second round in both tournaments. From those teams, Costa Rican players such Gilberto Martínez, Winston Parks, José Luis López Ramírez, Pablo Brenes, Michael Umaña, Carlos Hernández among others, made their first appearances as internationals.