Waldir Guerra (born April 2, 1967) is a retired Salvadoran footballer who played for the El Salvador national football team during his career.
Club career Guerra arrived in the USA as a refugee in 1982 and attended Bells High SchoolWALDIR GUERRA : Instead of Dodging Bullets in El Salvador, Bell High School Junior Is Now Busy Dodging Defenders on the Soccer Field - Los Angeles Times for whom he scored 117 goals in his first three years, which was a record.Guerra Moves to Defense but Scores Sole Goal as Bell Tops Grant, 1-0 - Los Angeles Times As a senior, he played for American Professional Soccer League side Los Angeles Heat until they went out of business in 1990. Three years later he played for Los Angeles SalsaHe's Taking the Field of Dreams Again : Soccer: Waldir Guerra is getting another chance to play professionally the sport he loves, this time with the newly formed Los Angeles Salsa - Los Angeles Times for whom he scored once in 22 matches in his first season.American Professional Soccer League 1993 Season - A-League archive
He returned to his native El Salvador in 1997 to play for Águila. He topped the goalscoring charts of the 1999 Apertura.El Salvador 1999/2000 - RSSSF
International career Guerra made his debut for El Salvador in an April 1997 friendly match against Guatemala in which he immediately scored a goal, and has earned a total of 13 caps, scoring 3 goals. He has represented his country in 2 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played at the 1997UNCAF Tournament 1997 - RSSSF and 1999 UNCAF Nations CupsUNCAF Tournament 1999 - RSSSF as well as at the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup.CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1998 - Full Details - RSSSF
His final international game was a March 1999 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Guatemala.
International goals Scores and results list El Salvador's goal tally first. # Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1 13 April 1997 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C., United States 1-0 1-1 Friendly match 2 20 April 1997 Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2-0 2-0 1997 UNCAF Nations Cup 3 9 November 1997 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador 2-2 2-2 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
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