Raul Díaz Arce ( Spanish: Raúl Díaz Arce ; February 1, 1970 , San Miguel , El Salvador ) - former Salvadoran footballer , striker . The best scorer in the history of the national team of El Salvador [1] .
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| Full name | Raul Ignacio Diaz Arce | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 1, 1970 (49 years old) San Miguel , San Miguel , Salvador | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Salvador | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth | 175 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- This person has a Spanish last name; here Diaz is the surname of the father, Arce is the surname of the mother.
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Club career
The striker began his career in the Dragon team in the second division of El Salvador. Having left the club in Example , he scored 34 goals in two seasons. In the 1989/1990 season, his team took 9th place in the championship, in the 1990/1991 season, “Dragon” took off from the first division. In 1991, the striker moved to the Luis Angel Firpo football club, with whom he won the national championship twice. In 1996, Raul started playing for DC United from Washington , being selected at the MLS Inaugural Draft [2] . In the first season, the striker scored 23 goals in the regular season and 6 goals in the playoffs of the MLS Cup . These goals helped DSC United win the MLS Cup, becoming the first champion of the new league. Diaz Arce helped the Washington club win the 1996 US Open Cup by scoring the first goal in the final. In 1997, the striker scored 15 goals in the regular season and helped the team win the championship. In the MLS Cup, the Salvadoran footballer scored 2 goals in the semi-finals (Eastern Conference finals) and helped the metropolitan team reach the finals, where DC United won 2-1 against Colorado Rapids . In the CONCACAF Champions Cup 1997, the striker scored 1 goal in the match for 3rd place against the Mexican Guadalajara . In 1997, due to a conflict with midfielder Marco Etcheverri, the footballer left DC United. In 1998, the Salvadoran striker played for the New England Revolution and scored 18 goals, but his team finished last in the regular season. The striker spent the first half of 1999 at the San Jose Flash . In the middle of the season, Raul Diaz Arce moved to Tampa Bay Mutini , which reached the playoffs, but lost in the first round. In 2000, the footballer returned to DC United, for which he played until mid-2001. In 2001, the striker also played for the Colorado Rapids, which took 11th place in the MLS. In 2002, the striker played in the for the Charleston Battery . In the 2002/03 season, he played in the Salvador Championship for Aguila . In 2003, Raul Arce won the A-League Championship with Charleston Battery. In 2004, the striker ended his career.
Salvador Team
In 1991, the striker played the first match for the national team of El Salvador , in the qualifying tournament of the Cup of Nations of Central America against the national team of Nicaragua : Salvador won with a score of 3: 2, Diaz Arce scored two goals. In the second leg, the Salvadoran football player scored another goal, Salvador won with a score of 2: 0. In the 1991 Central American Nations Cup, the footballer played one match and scored a goal for Costa Rica . Since 1993, Raul began to play regularly for the national team and played six matches in the qualifying tournament of the 1994 World Cup . In 1996, the football player played two matches and scored two goals in the CONCACAF Gold Cup , but the Salvador team did not leave the group [3] . In the 1998 World Cup qualifier, Raul Diaz Arce played 16 matches and scored 9 goals. In 1998, the striker played two matches in the CONCACAF Gold Cup , in which the Salvador team took last place in the group [4] . In 2000, Diaz Arce played his last match in the national team, against Honduras . Raul Ignacio Diaz Arce played 55 matches for the national team and scored 39 goals, which allows him to be the top scorer in the history of the national team of El Salvador.
Achievements
- Team
- Luis Angel Firpo
- Salvador Championship : 1991/92, 1992/93
- DC United
- MLS Cup : 1996 , 1997
- MLS Regular Championship : 1997
- US Open Cup : 1996
- Charleston Battery
- : 2003
- Customized
- All-Star Game MLS : 1997 [5] , 1998 [6] , 1999 [7]
Notes
- ↑ El Salvador - Record International Players . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . Date of treatment August 5, 2019.
- ↑ 1996 MLS Inaugural Draft . MLSsoccer.com (February 6, 1996). Date of treatment August 5, 2019.
- ↑ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1996 - Full Details . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . Date of treatment August 5, 2019.
- ↑ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1998 - Full Details . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . Date of treatment August 5, 2019.
- ↑ 1997 MLS All-Star Game . MLSsoccer.com (July 9, 1997). Date of treatment August 5, 2019.
- ↑ 1998 MLS All-Star Game . MLSsoccer.com (August 2, 1998). Date of treatment August 5, 2019.
- ↑ 1999 MLS All-Star Game . MLSsoccer.com (July 17, 1999). Date of treatment August 5, 2019.