Ronald Alexis Cerritos Castañeda (born 2 October 2000), better known as Alexis Cerritos, is a professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a winger for Central Valley Fuego. Born in the United States, he represents the El Salvador national team.

Professional

Loudoun United Loudoun United FC is an American professional soccer team based in Leesburg, Virginia. The team was founded in 2018 as the reserve team of D.C. United and made its debut in the USL Championship in 2019. History On July 18, 2018, the team was offi ...

acquired Cerritos for the remainder of Loudoun's 2019 season. After a short stint in Portugal with

AD Oliveirense Associação Desportiva Oliveirense is a Portuguese sports club from Santa Maria de Oliveira, Vila Nova de Famalicão. The men's football team played several years on the third tier, and was supposed to contest the 2020–21 Campeonato de Portu ...

, Cerritos returned to the United States, joining

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side

Orange County SC Orange County Soccer Club is an American soccer team based in the Orange County, California city of Irvine. Founded in 2010 as the Los Angeles Blues, the team currently plays in the second tier USL Championship. The team plays its home games at ...

on September 12, 2020. Following his release from Orange County at the end of the 2020 season, Cerritos moved to USL Championship side

Rio Grande Valley FC Rio Grande Valley FC, also known as RGVFC or Rio Grande Valley FC Toros, is an American semi-professional soccer team based in Edinburg, Texas operated by Lone Star, LLC. They joined the USL Championship in the 2016 season. The team served as a ...

on April 7, 2021.

International

Cerritos was called up to the

El Salvador national under-17 football team The El Salvador Under 17's football team, is controlled by Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol and represents El Salvador in international under-17 or youth football competitions. Tournament Records FIFA U-17 World Cup UNCAF preliminary rou ...

for the

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. He played in all the matches El Salvador played in the tournament, and scored their only goal in the tournament. Cerritos debuted for the

El Salvador national football team The El Salvador national football team ( es, Selección de fútbol de El Salvador) represents El Salvador in international football, and is governed by the Salvadoran Football Federation (FESFUT). In 1899, two teams from Santa Ana and San Sa ...

in a friendly 1-0 win over

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. At 17 years old and 6 days, Cerritos became the second youngest player to debut for El Salvador, and the first player born in the 21st century.

Personal life

Cerritos' father,

Ronald Cerritos Ronald Osvaldo Cerritos Flores (born January 3, 1975, in San Salvador) is a Salvadoran former professional footballer who played as a striker. Cerritos is the all-time leader in assists of the Major League Soccer team, the San Jose Earthquakes ...

, was also a professional footballer who played for the

References

External links

US Soccer DA Profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cerritos, Alexis 2000 births Living people Association football midfielders Salvadoran footballers El Salvador international footballers C.F. Pachuca players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players Salvadoran expatriate footballers Salvadoran expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Expatriate footballers in Mexico Salvadoran expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Portugal American soccer players Soccer players from Maryland People from Beltsville, Maryland American sportspeople of Salvadoran descent Citizens of El Salvador through descent USL Championship players Loudoun United FC players AD Oliveirense players American expatriate soccer players American expatriate sportspeople in Mexico American expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Orange County SC players El Salvador youth international footballers Rio Grande Valley FC Toros players Central Valley Fuego FC players