Ismael Díaz (Salvadoran footballer)

Ismael Díaz
Personal information
Full name	José Ismael Díaz
Date of birth	February 20, 1948
Place of birth	San Miguel, El Salvador
Date of death	February 26, 1981
Place of death	San Miguel, El Salvador
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Dragón
1970–1976	Águila
International career
	El Salvador
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

José Ismael Díaz (February 20, 1948 – February 26, 1981) was a Salvadoran footballer.

Club career[edit]

Nicknamed el Cisco, Díaz played for C.D. Dragón before joining the Juan Francisco Barraza-managed Águila.^[1]

Díaz played for his country's Olympic team in the 1972 and 1976 qualifiers^[2] and represented El Salvador in 3 FIFA World Cup qualification matches^[3]

In 1980, Díaz was murdered in San Miguel,^[4]^[5] while working in his taxi.^[6]

^ EL KINDER DE BARRAZA Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine - Águila Online (in Spanish)
^ El Salvador en Juegos Olimpicos El Balón Cuscatleco (in Spanish)
^ Ismael Díaz – FIFA competition record (archived)
^ Perdió el fútbol La Prensa Grafica (in Spanish)
^ Mareros asesinan a entrenador-Tragedias del fútbol Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish)
^ La violencia se cobra la vida de otro futbolista^{[permanent dead link]} - La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish)