Indy Adds Guatemalan International Marvin Ceballos
Indy Eleven’s Fall Season signing-spree continued Tuesday with the inking of Guatemalan international midfielder Marvin Ceballos to a contract for the remainder of the 2015 NASL campaign.
“I'm very excited to sign with Indy Eleven,” said Ceballos, who joined Indy Eleven’s camp last week. “I'm happy to be at a great club that's professional in every sense, and it's a blessing how in such a short amount of time they've made me feel right at home. I'm going to work hard for the team and hope to achieve great things here.”
Ceballos will be available to make his debut for “Indiana’s Team” when the squad returns to IUPUI’s Carroll Stadium for this Saturday’s contest versus Ottawa Fury FC (7:30 p.m. ET; live on WISH-TV 8, ESPN3.com and Exitos Radio 1590AM / Exitos1590.com).
“We are excited to bring Marvin Ceballos into the squad for the second half of the 2015 season,” Indy Eleven President and General Manager Peter Wilt said. “He’s an international-caliber player who can make everyone around him better with his vision and technical ability.”
The 23-year-old Ceballos has spent the first four years of his professional career with CSD Communicaciones of the Liga Nacional de Futbol de Guatemala (Guatemalan first division) from 2011-15. Ceballos scored eight times in 69 games with Communicaciones’ first team, including three goals during 29 appearances in the 2014/15 season. He also tallied once in seven appearances across the 2010/11 and 2014/15 editions of the CONCACAF Champions League, the regional club championship competition in North America, South America, and the Caribbean.
“Marvin is a talented and positive addition to the team that brings another dynamic, attacking presence to our midfield,” Indy Eleven interim head coach and Director of Soccer Operations Tim Regan said
Ceballos has represented Guatemala at the senior level on five occasions, his first two senior caps coming in September 2010 against Nicaragua and El Salvador during friendlies in the United States.He featured with Guatemala’s national team last summer by playing in three games between August and October, incuding one substitute appearance in the Copa Centroamericana in September against Honduras – and now Indy Eleven teammate Erick Norales.
Ceballos had the international spotlight shown on him as part of the Guatemala side that competed in the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, as he featured in all four of the team’s appearances in Colombia. It was his 81st minute tally in a 1-0 win over Croatia in the group finale that secured los Chapines’ passage to the Round of 16, where they fell to eventual tournament runner-up Portugal. Ceballos also represented Guatemala at the Under-23 level during the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying tournament in September 2011.
