Danny Ortiz

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Danny Ortiz
Personnel
birthday July 26, 1976
place of birth Las PalmasGuatemala
date of death February 29, 2004
Place of death Guatemala CityGuatemala
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
Deportivo Carchá
Deportivo Coatepeque
Ayutla
Teculután
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-1999 CD Suchitepéquez
2000-2001 Deportivo Carchá
2001-2002 CSD Comunicaciones
2002-2004 CSD Municipal
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001-2002 Guatemala 10 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Danny Ortiz (born July 26, 1976 in Las Palmas , † February 29, 2004 in Guatemala City ) was a Guatemalan football player .

Career

society

Ortiz learned the ABC of football in various youth clubs in Guatemala. His professional career began in 1998 at CD Suchitepéquez . After two years he moved to league competitor Deportivo Carchá . In 2001 he switched to the top Guatemalan club CSD Comunicaciones , and a year later he signed with the other top club CSD Municipal . With Municipal he won the 2002 Clausura Championship straight away. The following year he won the Apertura title. On February 29, 2004, at a game of his club CSD Municipal against CSD Comunicaciones , the goalkeeper suffered a tear in the heart sac after a collision with the opposing striker Mario Rafael Rodríguez and died from it in hospital.

National team

Ortiz played as a goalkeeper in the Guatemalan national soccer team . In February 2001 he made his debut in the friendly against Panama , making his debut for the colors of his country. Shortly afterwards he was in the squad for the Central American Cup , in which Guatemala could win the title. The following year Ortiz was in the line-up for the 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup , where he was number two in the team of national coach Julio César Cortés behind Edgar Estrada . After the 3-1 defeat in the opening match, Ortiz was in the starting line-up of his team in the second and final group game against El Salvador . The game was lost 0-1 and Guatemala was eliminated from the tournament. Until his death in 2004 he was regularly appointed to the national team.

success

society

  • Clausura championship with CSD Municipal: 2002
  • Apertura Championship with CSD Municipal: 2003

National team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Danny Ortiz, a 5 años de su muerte of March 4, 2009 on superrojos.com
  2. Guatemala: Kader Gold Cup 2002 in the USA on weltfussball.de
  3. Match report Guatemala - El Salvador 0: 1 (0: 0) on weltfussball.de