Carlos Armando Gruezo Quiñónez (born September 18, 1975 in

Quinindé Quinindé, also known as Rosa Zárate, is a town in the Esmeraldas province of Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which lit ...

) is a retired

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

forward from

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

, who earned one cap for the Ecuador national team during his career. His only appearance came on 14 October 1998 when Ecuador lost 5–1 in a friendly against Brazil, and Gruezo was a second-half substitute for

Ariel Graziani Ariel José Graziani Lentini (born June 7, 1971) is a former football player. He is a naturalized Ecuadorian striker who represented the Ecuador national team on 34 occasions between 1997 and 2000. After retiring in Ecuador he is only able to p ...

. He is the father of

Carlos Armando Gruezo Arboleda Carlos Armando Gruezo Arboleda (; born 19 April 1995) is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club San Jose Earthquakes and the Ecuador national team. He is the son of Carlos Armando Gruezo Q ...

Honors

Club

Deportivo Cuenca Club Deportivo Cuenca is an Ecuadorian football club based in Cuenca. They currently play in the Serie A, the top-flight football league in the country, and is one of two clubs from Cuenca to have played in the top-flight (the other being LDU ...

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: 2004

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Carlos Armando Gruezo Quiñónez
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