Freddy García (footballer)

Freddy Alexander García Carrera (born 12 January 1977) is a Guatemalan professional footballer currently playing for Deportivo Heredia in the Guatemala's top division. He has played for several local clubs since 1997, and also in Major League Soccer for Columbus Crew, where he won the 2002 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.

Freddy García
Personal information
Full name Freddy Alexander García Carrera
Date of birth (1977-01-12) 12 January 1977
Place of birth Puerto Barrios, Guatemala
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Heredia Jaguares de Peten
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–1999 USAC
1999–2002 Comunicaciones
2002 Columbus Crew 5 (0)
2003–2004 Municipal
2003 Columbus Crew 22 (1)
2004–2009 Municipal 128 (36)
2009–2010 Heredia Jaguares de Peten ?? (14)
2010–2011 Peñarol La Mesilla ?? (2)
2011–2012 Heredia Jaguares de Peten 19 (5)
National team‡
1998–2011 Guatemala 73 (23)
2000 Guatemala (futsal)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 February 2010
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 March 2017
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is García and the second or maternal family name is Carrera.

Also a member of the Guatemala national team, he has played in four World Cup qualifying campaigns, and is among Guatemala's all-time top scorers.

Club career

An attacking midfielder renowned for his accurate left foot, García was born in Puerto Barrios, and started his professional career with Universidad San Carlos (USAC). In 1999, he joined Comunicaciones, where he won two league titles. In 2002, he joined Columbus Crew in the MLS and played five regular season matches that year. He scored the championship-winning goal for Crew at the 2002 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final against Los Angeles Galaxy. The following season, he appeared in 22 matches. Since 2004, he has returned to Guatemala to play for Municipal, helping that club win seven league championships. In June 2009 he left Municipal to join Heredia,[1] going on to score 14 goals for the club in the 2009–2010 season. The following year, he played for Peñarol La Mesilla, before returning to Heredia for the 2011–12 season.[2]

International career

García is a member of the Guatemalan national team, which he has represented during the 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014 World Cup qualification campaigns. In 1997, he was part of the youth national team participating at the VI Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos. He made his senior international debut in a November 1998 friendly match against Honduras[3]

He also played futsal internationally, as he was part of his country's Futsal team competing at the 2000 Futsal World Championship which was held in Guatemala.[4]

He made his return to the national squad in 2011 for a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and scored just minutes coming in as a substitute. He then scored two goals against Grenada later that year, tying Mario Camposeco for 4th place in the all-time goal scorers list for Guatemala with 23 goals.

International goals
Scores and results list Guatemala's goal tally first.[5]
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.26 March 1999Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica El Salvador1–01–01999 UNCAF Nations Cup
2.6 June 1999Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Canada Iran2–12–21999 Canada Cup
3.10 November 1999Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala Honduras1–01–1Friendly
4.9 January 2000Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, United States Armenia1–11–1Friendly
5.6 February 2000Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala Chile2–02–1Friendly
6.19 March 2000Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula, Honduras Belize1–02–12002 FIFA World Cup qualification
7.18 June 2000Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala Antigua and Barbuda7–18–12002 FIFA World Cup qualification
8.8–1
9.22 July 2000Estadio Mario Camposeco, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Barbados2–02–02002 FIFA World Cup qualification
10.8 October 2000Barbados National Stadium, St. Michael, Barbados Barbados1–03–12002 FIFA World Cup qualification
11.21 February 2001Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City, Panama Panama1–12–2Friendly
12.2–2
13.25 May 2001Estadio Nilmo Edwards, La Ceiba, Honduras Belize2–03–32001 UNCAF Nations Cup
14.3–3
15.3 June 2001Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, San Pedro Sula, Honduras Panama3–13–12001 UNCAF Nations Cup
16.13 February 2003Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City, Panama Costa Rica1–01–12003 UNCAF Nations Cup
17.18 February 2003Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City, Panama Nicaragua4–05–02003 UNCAF Nations Cup
18.20 February 2003Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City, Panama El Salvador1–02–02003 UNCAF Nations Cup
19.31 March 2004Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador El Salvador1–03–0Friendly
20.12 October 2005Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala Costa Rica2–03–12006 FIFA World Cup qualification
21.2 September 2011Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala Saint Vincent and the Grenadines4–04–02014 FIFA World Cup qualification
22.11 November 2011Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala Grenada1–03–02014 FIFA World Cup qualification
23.2–0

Honors

Columbus Crew

References
  1. Freddy García ya es jugador de Heredia Archived 7 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine – La Red Deportiva (in Spanish)
  2. "F. García". Perform Group. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  3. Fredy Alexander García – International Appearances – RSSSF
  4. Futsal World Cup Guatemala team Archived 8 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine – FIFA
  5. "García, Freddy". National Football Teams. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
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