Jesús María Araya
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Orión | |||
| International career | |||
| 1941–1946 | Costa Rica | 9 | (11) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Jesús María "Pato" Araya Soto was a Costa Rican football player, born in San José on April 22 1916. He died September 17 1994. He worked as a painter. He earned the nickname "Pato" for his peculiar way of running.
Araya represented the Costa Rica national football team between 1941 and 1946, scoring 11 goals in nine games.
Being a young player from Orión F.C., he was summoned by coach Alejandro Morera Soto to play in the first Central American and Caribbean Championship, which was held in the old National Stadium of Costa Rica from May 8 to 18,1941.
Araya was one of the top scorers in the tournament. In the opening game, Araya scored a hattrick, scoring to make it 3-0, 4-0 and 5-0; the game ended 7-2. Costa Rica went on to win the Championship.
Career statistics
[edit]International
[edit]| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Rica | 1941 | 4 | 7 |
| 1946 | 5 | 4 | |
| Total | 9 | 11 | |
International goals
[edit]- Scores and results list Costa Rica's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Costa Rica goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 May 1941 | Costa Rica |  Panama
|
3–0 | 7–2 | 1941 CCCF Championship |
| 2 | 4–0 | |||||
| 3 | 5–0 | |||||
| 4 | 13 May 1941 |  Curaçao
|
?–? | 6–2 | ||
| 5 | ?–? | |||||
| 6 | 18 May 1941 |  El Salvador
|
1–0 | 3–1 | ||
| 7 | 3–1 | |||||
| 8 | 10 December 1946 | Estadio Municipal, Barranquilla, Colombia |  Puerto Rico
|
?–0 | 12–0 | 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games |
| 9 | ?–0 | |||||
| 10 | ?–0 | |||||
| 11 | 14 December 1946 |  Venezuela
|
3–0 | 4–2 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Costa Rica - Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "I C.C.C.F. Championship 1941 - Match Details". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Central American and Caribbean Games 1946 (Barranquilla, Colombia)". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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