Óscar Armando Díaz

For other people named Óscar Díaz, see Óscar Díaz (disambiguation).
Óscar "Tito" Díaz
Personal information
Full name Óscar Armando Díaz
Date of birth (1970-10-15)15 October 1970
Place of birth El Salvador
Date of death 12 December 1998(1998-12-12) (aged 28)
Place of death Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador
Playing position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996 Municipal Limeño
19971998 FAS
National team
1997 El Salvador 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Óscar Armando Díaz (15 October 1970[1] – 12 December 1998) was a Salvadoran professional footballer.

Club career

Nicknamed Tito, Díaz played for FAS, forming the forward line with Marlon Medrano, and Municipal Limeño.

International career

Díaz made his debut for El Salvador in an April 1997 friendly match against Guatemala which proved to be his only international game. He was a non-playing squad member at the 1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup.[2]

Personal life and death

Díaz was the son of Delfina Díaz de Escobar and José Carmen Escobar. Tito was shot dead in a bar in Santa Rosa de Lima on 12 December 1998. In his honour, Municipal Limeño decided to withdraw the no. 10 jersey.[3] The murder has never been solved.

Díaz' son, Cristian Bustillo, played for FESA[4] and joined C.D. Águila in September 2011.[5]

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