Gustavo Adolfo Cabrera Marroquín (born 13 December 1979 in Santo Tomás,

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) is a former Guatemalan

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defender who last played for

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in the

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and was also a member of the Guatemala national team. On 12 September 2012 he was banned from play for life due to allegations of match-fixing.

Club career

Cabrera is the younger brother of former national team player

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and both started playing football at JuCa de Izabal before moving to Guatemalan giants Comunicaciones. The brothers were separated when Edy joined

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. Prior to joining

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midway through the 2005 season, Cabrera spent ten seasons with Comunicaciones in his native Guatemala and again in 2006. He is a two-footed player that has been used on the left, right and center of his team's formations and has won four Guatemalan League championships between 1998–2005 and was also named MVP of the Guatemalan league in 2003. On 6 June 2008, it was confirmed at a local newspaper that he was being transferred to

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. Cabrera left CSD Comunicaciones on a free transfer following a contract dispute with the club in which three players from the national team filed for free agency with the football federation since the club was in arrears for over three months of salary obligations. He was released from his AGF contract on 28 November 2008. The club said that they liked him, and that he had adapted well into the team, but he did not fit into the Scandinavian style of play. He never got to play on the first team. Cabrera returned to his native Guatemala and signed a six-month contract with

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on 11 January 2009 to play for them during the 2009 Clausura. He subsequently moved on to Xelaju.

Match fixing allegations and suspension

Cabrera, along with

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and

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were found guilty by the National Football Federation of Guatemala in September 2012 of conspiring to fix a pair of national team exhibitions and a CONCACAF Champions League game between CSD Municipal and Mexico's Santos Laguna. The trio played together at Municipal in the fall of 2010, when the club finished behind Santos and the Columbus Crew in its first-round group. Banned from the sport inside their native country, the players saw their exile extended worldwide on Wednesday.

International career

He has been a regular member of the Guatemalan national team since 2000, participating in the

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World Cup qualifying processes. He made his debut against

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and has since collected 100 caps as of 12 November 2011, which makes him the second-most capped player ever for Guatemala. Cabrera has also been the captain of the national team often throughout 2007 including wearing the captain's armband for the nation's 3–2 victory over

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. On 27 May 2012, Cabrera was separated from the Guatemala National Team on basis of suspected " to arrange a match's result of Guatemala against Sudafrica on 2010 " as well as other arrangements which led to the defeat of his clubs at different opportunities. In June 2012, this was confirmed by a teammates, Luis Rodriguez and Carlos Ruiz.Central America is seen as especially vulnerable to match-fixing... 10/16/2012 Reuters.
Retrieved 18 October 2012. Currently Ramires is under FIFA investigation as well as by the Ministerio Publico of Guatemala for Treason, Money laundering and other accounts.

International goals

Honours

;Comunicaciones *

: Clausura 2001, Apertura 2002, Clausura 2003 ;Jalapa *

: Clausura 2009

References

External links

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Player profile
– Xelaju MC {{DEFAULTSORT:Cabrera, Gustavo 1979 births Living people People from Izabal Department Guatemalan footballers Guatemalan expatriate footballers Guatemala international footballers 2001 UNCAF Nations Cup players 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2005 UNCAF Nations Cup players 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup players 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2011 Copa Centroamericana players 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players Comunicaciones F.C. players Real Salt Lake players Aarhus Gymnastikforening players Xelajú MC players Expatriate soccer players in the United States Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark FIFA Century Club Major League Soccer players Sportspeople banned for life Sportspeople involved in betting scandals Copa Centroamericana-winning players Association football defenders