Carlos Humberto Ruiz - International Goals


The outstanding Guatemaltan player scored 41 international goals in 83 matches for his National Team, which is the record number of goals by any player for Guatemala (equalling the record of Juan Carlos Plata on June 10, 2007).

He has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with Two Score Goals for his national team. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.


Cap Goals Date 		Venue       	Opponent       Score 	Competition    

 1	18/11/98	Los Angeles	Mexico		2-2     Hurricane Relief	
 2	03/02/99	Cd.Guatemala	Ecuador		0-0		
 3	05/03/99	Cd.Guatemala 	Bolivia		0-3	Copa de la Paz  		
 4	07/03/99	Cd.Guatemala	Jamaica		2-4	Copa de la Paz			 
 5	11/03/99	Los Angeles	USA		1-3	US Cup  
 6	13/03/99	San Diego	Bolivia		2-1	US Cup 
 7 1  1	19/03/99	San Jose	El Salvador	1-1	Uncaf Nations Cup 
 8    1	24/03/99	San Jose	Costa Rica 	0-1	Uncaf Nations Cup
 9    1	26/03/99	San Jose	El Salvador	1-0	Uncaf Nations Cup
10    1	28/03/99	San Jose	Honduras	2-0	Uncaf Nations Cup 	
11    1	29/05/99	Toronto		Canada		0-1	 
12    1	02/06/99	Edmonton	Canada		0-2	Maple Cup
13    1	04/06/99	Edmonton	Ecuador		1-3	Maple Cup
14    1	06/06/99 	Edmonton	Iran		2-2	Maple Cup 
15    1	02/04/00	Cd.Guatemala	El Salvador 	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
16    1	11/06/00	St. John's      Antigua/Barbuda	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
17 1  2 18/06/00   	Cd.Guatemala    Antigua/Barbuda	8-1	World Cup Qualifier
18 1  3 03/07/00	Montreal	Haiti		4-1	
19    3	07/07/00	Los Angeles	El Salvador	1-0
20 1  4	16/07/00	Cd.Guatemala	USA		1-1	World Cup Qualifier	
21 1  5 22/07/00	Quetzaltenango	Barbados	2-0	World Cup Qualifier 
22    5 15/08/00	Alajuela	Costa Rica 	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
23 1  6 08/10/00	Bridgetown	Barbados	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
24 2  8 15/11/00	Mazatenango	Costa Rica 	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
25 2 10	06/01/01	Miami 		Costa Rica 	2-5 	World Cup Qualifier 
26 1 11	06/01/02	La Habana 	Cuba		1-0	 
27   11	09/01/02	La Habana 	Cuba		0-0
28   11	12/01/02	Guayaquil	Ecuador		0-1	
29   11	21/01/02	Pasadena	Mexico		1-3	Gold Cup  	
30   11	23/01/02	Pasadena 	El Salvador	0-1	Gold Cup 	 
31 1 12	31/10/02	Cd.Guatemala	Jamaica		1-1 	
32   12	17/01/03	Santa Ana	El Salvador	0-0		
33   12	19/01/03	Los Angeles 	El Salvador	0-0
34   12	13/02/03	Cd.Panama 	Costa Rica 	1-1	Uncaf Nations Cup
35   12	16/02/03	Cd.Panama	Panama 		0-2	Uncaf Nations Cup
36 3 15	18/02/03	Cd.Panama 	Nicaragua 	5-0	Uncaf Nations Cup
37   15	23/02/03	Cd.Panama 	Honduras	2-1	Uncaf Nations Cup
38   15	22/06/03	Carson 		Honduras 	1-2 
39   15	15/07/03	Miami		Jamaica 	0-2	Gold Cup 			
40 1 16	17/07/03	Miami  	 	Colombia	1-1	Gold Cup  	 		
41 1 17	05/05/04	Cd.Guatemala 	Haiti		1-0  
42 2 19	20/06/04	Cd.Guatemala	Surinam 	3-1	World Cup Qualifier 
43   19	06/08/04	Washington DC	El Salvador 	2-0 	
44 2 21	18/08/04	Burnaby		Canada 		2-0	World Cup Qualifier	
45   21	05/09/04	Cd.Guatemala	Costa Rica 	2-1 	World Cup Qualifier 
46 1 22	08/09/04	S.Pedro Sula	Honduras 	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
47 1 23	13/10/04	Cd.Guatemala	Honduras	1-0	World Cup Qualifier 
48   23	10/11/04	San Antonio	Mexico 		0-2		
49 1 24	13/11/04	Washington DC	Bolivia 	1-0
50   24	17/11/04	Cd.Guatemala	Canada 		0-1 	World Cup Qualifier	
51 1 25	21/12/04	Caracas		Venezuela 	1-0 
52 1 26	17/01/05	Los Angeles 	Colombia 	1-1
53   26	23/01/05 	Los Angeles 	Paraguay	1-2 	
54   26	09/02/05	Cd.Panama 	Panama		0-0	World Cup Qualifier 
55 2 28	26/03/05 	Cd.Guatemala	Trinidad/Tobago	5-1	World Cup Qualifier 	 
56   28	30/03/05 	Birmingham 	USA		0-2	World Cup Qualifier
57   28	08/06/05	San Jose 	Costa Rica 	2-3	World Cup Qualifier 
58 3 31	08/07/05	Carson		Jamaica		3-4	Gold Cup 
59   31	10/07/05	Los Angeles 	Mexico		0-4	Gold Cup  
60   31	13/07/05	Houston		South Africa	1-1	Gold Cup 	    
61   31	17/08/05	Cd.Guatemala	Panama  	2-1	World Cup Qualifier  
62   31	03/09/05	Port of Spain	Trinidad/Tobago	2-3	World Cup Qualifier			    
63 1 32	08/10/05	San Luis Potosi Mexico	 	2-5	World Cup Qualifier 
64 1 33	12/10/05	Cd.Guatemala 	Costa Rica 	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
65   33	19/02/06	Frisco		USA 		0-4 	  	    
66   33	16/08/06	Miami		Haiti		1-1  
67   33	06/09/06	Cd.Guatemala 	Panama 		1-2  
68 1 34	10/10/06	Atlanta 	Honduras 	1-2 
69   34	28/03/07	Frisco		USA		0-0 
70   34	07/06/07	Carson		USA		0-1	Gold Cup    
71   34	09/06/07	Los Angeles   	El Salvador  	1-0   	Gold Cup   
72 1 35	12/06/07	Foxboro 	Trinidad/Tobago	1-1	Gold Cup  
73   35	16/06/07	Foxboro 	Canada 		0-3	Gold Cup  	          	  	    
74   35	22/08/07	Cd.Panama 	Panama 		1-2 	  
75   35	17/10/07	Los Angeles 	Mexico 		3-2  
76   35	04/06/08	Rancagua 	Chile		0-2  
77 4 39	14/06/08	Cd.Guatemala	Santa Lucia	6-0	World Cup Qualifier 
78   39	21/06/08	Los Angeles 	Santa Lucia	3-1	World Cup Qualifier 
79   39 20/08/08        Cd.Guatemala    USA             0-1	World Cup Qualifier 
80   39 06/09/08        Port of Spain   Trinidad/Tobago 1-1	World Cup Qualifier 
81 2 41 10/09/08        Cd.Guatemala    Cuba            4-1	World Cup Qualifier 
82   41	11/10/08	Cd.Guatemala	Haiti		0-0 	World Cup Qualifier  
83   41	15/10/08  	La Habana 	Cuba		1-2 	World Cup Qualifier

NB: the matches against Cameroon U-21 (16/01/02) and Denmark League XI
    (29/01/05; Ruiz scored 2 goals) in which Carlos Ruiz played, are
    not considered full internationals and therefore are not included
    here.     


Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
  83      29  20   34     113-112       78       46.99

41 Goals in 83 Matches (% 0.49 per match)



Types of Goals   

World Cup Qualifiers	24
Friendlies           	 8
Gold Cup 	      	 5
Uncaf Nations Cup    	 4 
	
  
Total                	41


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With thanks to Dick Holstein (holstein@vi.nl) and Carlos Muralles Magaņa (guatefutbol.com)

Prepared and maintained by Luis Fernando Passo Alpuin for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Luis Fernando Passo Alpuin (fernandopasso2004@yahoo.com)
Last updated: 7 Nov 2008

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