Miguel Cruz
Appearance
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Miguel Cruz Paz | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 1914 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | El Salvador | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 9 March 2000 | (aged 85–86)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | El Salvador | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | striker | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
Libertad | |||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1940–1946 | Universidad Católica | ||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1935–1944 | El Salvador | ? | (16) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Miguel Cruz Paz (1914 – 9 March 2000) was a Salvadoran footballer.
Club career
[edit]Nicknamed el Americano (the American), Cruz played club football in El Salvador, before going to Chile to play professionally alongside compatriot Armando Chacón at Universidad Católica.[1]
International career
[edit]On March 24, 1935 he made his international debut in El Salvador's first group stage match at the 1935 Central American Games against Cuba, where he also got his first and second goals, scoring the first in a 4–1 victory Cruz scored 16 goals for the El Salvador national football team from 1935 to 1943.[2] He represented his country at the 1935 Central American Games.
Honours
[edit]International
References
[edit]- ^ Herrera S., Jorge (7 October 2009). "Falleció Raúl "Araña" Magaña Monzón" (in Spanish). Revista Debate. Archived from the original on 30 October 2009.
- ^ Owsianski, Jarek (18 April 2004). "El Salvador - Record International Players". RSSSF.
External links
[edit]- Se fue Americano Cruz - El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish)
- [1] - La Prensa Grafica (in Spanish)
- [2] - El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish)
Categories:
- 1917 births
- 2000 deaths
- Men's association football forwards
- Salvadoran men's footballers
- El Salvador men's international footballers
- Salvadoran expatriate men's footballers
- Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
- Salvadoran expatriate sportspeople in Chile
- Salvadoran football managers
- Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for El Salvador
- Competitors at the 1935 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in football
- Salvadoran football biography stubs