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    Reformed Ruiz delivers for FC Dallas

    By Steve Davis

    Friday, October 20, 2006

    Goal scorers generally find their happy place in just one way: They need their scoring fix. The juice is always in finding the net, and little else feeds the need. So it was in other times for Carlos Ruiz, FC Dallas' mercurial, combative and sometimes troubled striker. But these are more sanguine days for El Pescadito. The Guatemalan striker is free from the tremendous weight of a 2005 season that was memorable for all the wrong reasons. The 2006 version of Carlos Ruiz has indeed evolved int ...

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