Julio Girón | |
Fullname: | Julio Estuardo Girón Rafael |
Birth Date: | 2 March 1970 |
Birth Place: | Guatemala City, Guatemala |
Position: | midfielder |
Years1: | 1990–1998 |
Years2: | 1998–2007 |
Years3: | 2007–2008 |
Clubs3: | Deportivo Petapa |
Caps2: | 91 |
Goals2: | 2 |
Nationalyears1: | 1992–2006 |
Nationalteam1: | Guatemala |
Nationalcaps1: | 82 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Pcupdate: | 1 June 2007 |
Ntupdate: | 5 November 2008 |
Julio Estuardo Girón Rafael (born March 2, 1970) is a retired Guatemalan football midfielder. He played several years for Aurora F.C. and CSD Municipal before retiring at Deportivo Petapa in January 2008.[1]
Girón made his debut for Guatemala in a June 1992 friendly match against Nicaragua and played in three different World Cup qualification campaigns.[2]
He earned 82 caps, in which he never scored a goal. In 1999, he became Guatemala's most capped player of all time, before he was surpassed by Edgar Estrada three years later.[3] His final international game was a February 2006 friendly match against the United States.