{{Short description|Salvadoran footballer (1914–2000)}} {{about||the Mexican long-distance runner|Miguel Ángel Cruz|the Spanish TV director|Miguel Cruz Carretero}} {{family name hatnote|Cruz|Paz|lang=Spanish}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Miguel Cruz | image = | fullname = Miguel Cruz Paz | birth_date = 1914 | birth_place =El Salvador | death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|3|9|1914|df=y}} | death_place =El Salvador | currentclub = | position = striker | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Libertad | years1 = 1940–1946 | clubs1 = Universidad Católica | caps1 = | goals1 = | nationalyears1 = 1935–1944 | nationalteam1 = El Salvador | nationalcaps1 = ? | nationalgoals1 = 16 | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry | {{SLV}} }} {{MedalSport | Men's Football}} {{MedalCompetition|Central American and Caribbean Games}} {{MedalBronze | 1935 El Salvador | Team Competition}} }} '''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.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Revista Debate|author=Herrera S., Jorge|title=Falleció Raúl "Araña" Magaña Monzón|url=http://revistadebate.ca/portal/content/view/1564/50/|language=Spanish|date=2009-10-07|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030114510/http://revistadebate.ca/portal/content/view/1564/50/|archivedate=2009-10-30}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{cite web|author=Owsianski, Jarek|title=El Salvador - Record International Players|website=RSSSF|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/elsal-recintlp.html|date=2004-04-18}}</ref> He represented his country at the 1935 Central American Games.
==Honours== '''International''' *Central American and Caribbean Games Bronze Medal (1): 1935
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==External links== * [http://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/EDICIONESANTERIORES/marzo11/DEPORTES/depor1.html Se fue Americano Cruz] - El Diario de Hoy {{in lang|es}} * [http://www.laprensagrafica.com/2015/02/09/el-americano-uno-de-los-primeros-legionarios-azules] - La Prensa Grafica {{in lang|es}} * [https://www.elsalvador.com/deportes/futbol/miguel-cruz-americano-chile-universidad-catolica/908068/2021/] - El Diario de Hoy {{in lang|es}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cruz, Miguel}} Category:1917 births Category:2000 deaths Category:Men's association football forwards Category:Salvadoran men's footballers Category:El Salvador men's international footballers Category:Salvadoran expatriate men's footballers Category:Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Chile Category:Salvadoran expatriate sportspeople in Chile Category:Salvadoran football managers Category:Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for El Salvador Category:Competitors at the 1935 Central American and Caribbean Games Category:Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in football
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