Throughout his career as a footballer; Luis Cruz played 340 league games[1] in 18 years as a professional player.
After dodging the PRE-hexagonal round, Honduras had an acceptable participation, beating the strongest rival ( Trinidad and Tobago ) 2-1, drawing 0-0 with Mexico.
Among the players who participated alongside Cruz, in this tie were: the goalkeeper; Jimmy Stewart , 'Mozambique' Álvarez, Jaime Villegas , Ruben Guifarro, Mariano Godoy, 'El Tractor' Ramírez and Jorge Bran to name a few.
Although Luis could have played the qualifying rounds for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, he had to settle for 'seeing the bulls from the sidelines' since the extracurricular sports federation of Honduras gave up participating in the qualifying rounds due to the political differences it held with his neighboring country of El Salvador.
Once at the World Cup in Spain, Cruz had the opportunity to participate in the match that Honduras held against the Northern Ireland.