Santos Noel Rivera Ayala (born April 8, 1974) is a former Salvadoran professional football goalkeeper.
He did not win a league title during his playing career and retired from the game in 2009 to become goalkeeper coach of Águila.
[2] His final international game was a February 2005 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Costa Rica.
In October 2011, he was named as successor to Luis Ramírez Zapata at the Department of Culture and Sports of the San Miguel mayorship.
In 2018, he re-signed as team coach in substitution of Rubén da Silva, with Dragón playing in Segunda División.