Waterman with Cobresal in 2023
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| Full name | Cecilio Alfonso Waterman Ruiz | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1991-04-13) April 13, 1991 (age 33) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Panama City, Panama | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft11+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker / Winger | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Río Abajo | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | San Miguelito | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Sporting San Miguelito | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2020 | Fénix | 127 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | → Venados (loan) | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → Defensor Sporting (loan) | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | → Plaza Colonia (loan) | 32 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Universidad de Concepción | 32 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | → Everton (loan) | 23 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | → Cobresal (loan) | 24 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Cobresal | 25 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Alianza Lima | ||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Panama U20 | 9 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Panama U23 | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010– | Panama | 21 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 December 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 03:30, 3 June 2022 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Cecilio Alfonso Waterman Ruiz (born 13 April 1991) is a Panamanian professional footballer who plays as a striker.
Waterman made his professional debut playing with Sporting San Miguelito on 26 September 2010 against Atlético Chiriquí.
In mid 2011 he was transferred to Uruguayan side Centro Atlético Fénix, for whom he scored his first goal in May 2012 against Racing.[1]
In 2022 and 2023, he played for Chilean Primera División side Cobresal, reaching the second place in the 2023 season.[2]
In 2024, he would sign a new contract to play for Alianza Lima during the 2024 Liga 1.[3][4]
Waterman was part of the Panama U-20 squad for the 2011 CONCACAF U-20 Championship where he scored four goals helping his country qualify to the Youth World CupinColombia.[5]
He made his senior debut for Panama in a December 2010 friendly match against Honduras and has, as of 15 August 2015, earned a total of 7 caps, scoring no goals. In 2013, he was called up by Julio Dely Valdés to play the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Panama | 2010 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2013 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 8 | 7 | |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 21 | 8 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 5 June 2021 | Estadio Nacional, Panama City, Panama |  Anguilla |
2–0 | 13–0 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 2 | 6–0 | |||||
| 3 | 8 June 2021 |  Dominican Republic |
3–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 12 June 2021 |  Curaçao |
2–0 | 2–1 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
| 5 | 5 September 2021 | Independence Park, Kingston, Jamaica |  Jamaica |
3–0 | 3–0 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 6 | 12 November 2021 | Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, San Pedro Sula, Honduras |  Honduras |
1–2 | 3–2 | |
| 7 | 16 November 2021 | Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City, Panama |  El Salvador |
1–1 | 2–1 | |
| 8 | 2 June 2022 |  Costa Rica |
2–0 | 2–0 | 2022–23 CONCACAF Nations League A |
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Alianza Lima – current squad
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