Miguel Cruz
- March 9, 2000
- 89 years
About Miguel Cruz
Miguel Cruz, 89, Salvadoran football player.
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Full Biography
|Miguel Cruz Paz (1914 – 9 March 2000) was a Salvadoran footballer.
Club career
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.
International career
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. He represented his country at the 1935 Central American Games.
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