Emanuel Diego Salvador Ruiz (born 7 July 1978) is a former Argentine professional footballer, who played as a striker.
Ruiz began his career in the youth sectors of Argentinos Juniors, being transferred with a group of youth footballers amongst them, Juan Roman Riquelme to Boca Juniors in 1996. On 10 August 1997 he made his debut with the first team the following year under Hector Veira in a 4âÂÂ3 win over Rosario Central. However, he had no place at that time within the team and was loaned one year to Rosario Central, where he wasn't a first team regular either. In 1999, he returned to Boca, and this time under Carlos Bianchi's command, to have continuity in the main squad.
On 4 July 2000 Ruiz was transferred to the Greek club AEK Athens, alongside his teammate Fernando Navas, as choices of the manager, Giannis Pathiakakis. After spending a mediocre season in Greece failing to satisfy the clubs management, on 22 August 2001 he was loaned to Union Santa Fe. In the summer of 2002 his contract with AEK was terminated and since then, he played for Talleres, Nueva Chicago, Toluca, RCD España and San Lorenzo de Luján.
In 2008, he left for Israel by the club Hapoel Nir to play in the 2nd division of the country. Then in the middle of the following year, the club Cienciano of Cuzco, where he played 8 matches not having a good performance. In January 2010, he joined everything was on track to become player San José however, a problem in his right knee prevented him from successfully pass medical exams and he did not sign for Bolivian club. After that incident and failing to sign for any club, he retired at the age of 31.
In 2014 Ruiz created football academies in Argentina giving them the name of the club that gave him the chance to play in Europe, "AEK FC".