Wilmer Velásquez
Honduran footballer (born 1972) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilmer Raynel Neal Velásquez (born April 28, 1972) is a retired Honduran footballer who played as a forward. He was regarded as one of the greatest footballers in Honduran soccer for Olimpia, and by foremost as the nation's greatest striker ever alongside Carlos Pavón.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Wilmer Raynel Neal Velásquez | ||
| Date of birth | April 28, 1972 | ||
| Place of birth | Tela, Honduras | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1995 | Olimpia | 35 | (12) |
| 1996 | Concepción | 19 | (8) |
| 1996–1998 | Olimpia | 78 | (48) |
| 1999 | Sport-Recife | 8 | (1) |
| 1999–2000 | Olimpia | 61 | (32) |
| 2001 | Atlas | 13 | (1) |
| 2001–2009 | Olimpia | 287 | (120) |
| Total | 489 | (222) | |
| International career‡ | |||
| 1994–2007 | Honduras | 47 | (35) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2007 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 June 2008 | |||
He is currently the all-time top goalscorer in the Honduran National Football League with 196 goals, and was the second player to reach 150 goals after Denilson Costa.
Nicknamed El Matador, Velásquez started his professional career with Olimpia and he would not play for any other Honduran team during his career. He made his debut on 1 November 1990 against Platense and scored his first goal on 23 January 1992 against city rivals Motagua.[1] He did play for other teams though, with Concepción in Chile, Sport-Recife in Brazil and Atlas in Mexico but was not very successful with all of them.
In 2005, Velásquez was crowned one of the Top Goalscorers in the World by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics. He made 15 goals with both the Honduras national football team and his club, Olimpia, finishing second only behind Brazilian player Adriano Leite Ribeiro, who scored 18 goals.[2]
He has won 12 titles of the Honduran League, all of them with Olimpia. In December 2008 he announced he would retire after the 2009 Clausura.[3] He has scored 318 goals in competitive games, 258 of them for Olimpia.[4]
Velásquez made his debut for Honduras in an April 1997 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Panama in which he famously scored four goals. He has earned a total of 47 caps, scoring 35 goals.[5] He has represented his country in only 2 FIFA World Cup qualification matches[6] and played at the 1997,[7] 2005[8] and 2007 UNCAF Nations Cups[9] as well as at the 1998,[10] 2003[11] and 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cups.[12] In 2009, he qualified with Honduras to the 2010 fifa world cup (an achievement not done by the Honduran Football team since 1982) scoring the tie-break goal against El Salvador that qualified his team to the world cup.
His final international was a June-July FIFA World cup 2010 match against Switzerland national football team.
Club
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | CONCACAF | Other[nb 1] | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Olimpia | 1990–91 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1991–92 | 8 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 1992–93 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 1993–94 | 10 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 1994–95 | 11 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 1996–97 | 17 | 9 | |||||||||||
| 1997–98 A | 24 | 19 | |||||||||||
| 1997–98 C | 20 | 15 | |||||||||||
| 1998–99 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 1999–2000 A | 19 | 12 | |||||||||||
| 1999–2000 C | 19 | 12 | |||||||||||
| 2000–01 A | 18 | 9 | |||||||||||
| 2001–02 A | 12 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 2001–02 C | 19 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 2002–03 A | 19 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2002–03 C | 18 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 2003–04 A | 18 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2003–04 C | 7 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2004–05 A | 19 | 9 | |||||||||||
| 2004–05 C | 16 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2005–06 A | 16 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 2005–06 C | 15 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 2006–07 A | 17 | 9 | |||||||||||
| 2006–07 C | 14 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2007–08 A | 11 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2007–08 C | 18 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 2008–09 A | 15 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 2008–09 C | 18 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2009–10 A | 17 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Total | 400 | 196 | |||||||||||
International goals
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | December 11, 1994 | Fullerton, California, USA |  United States | 1–1 | Draw | Friendly |
| 2. | April 16, 1997 | Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala |  Panama | 5–0 | Win | 1997 UNCAF Nations Cup |
| 3. | April 16, 1997 | 5–0 | Win | |||
| 4. | April 16, 1997 | 5–0 | Win | |||
| 5. | April 16, 1997 | 5–0 | Win | |||
| 6. | April 18, 1997 | Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala |  El Salvador | 3–0 | Win | |
| 7. | April 18, 1997 | 3–0 | ||||
| 8. | January 21, 1998 | Estadio Chorotega de Nicoya, Nicoya, Costa Rica |  Costa Rica | 4–1 | Win | Friendly |
| 9. | January 21, 1998 | 4–1 | ||||
| 10. | January 29, 1998 | San Salvador, El Salvador | El Salvador | 1–1 | Tie | |
| 11. | November 17, 1999 | Estadio Imperio del Sol Naciente, Tegucigalpa, Honduras |  Trinidad and Tobago | 3–2 | Win | |
| 12. | March 8, 2000 | Estadio Casa Blanca, Quito, Ecuador |  Ecuador | 3–1 | Win | |
| 13. | November 14, 2000 | Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 7–0 | Win | World Cup 2002 Qualifier |
| 14. | April 25, 2003 | Stade En Camée, Rivière-Pilote, Martinique | Trinidad and Tobago | 2–0 | Win | 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifier |
| 15. | April 27, 2003 | Stade d'Honneur de Dillon, Fort-de-France, Martinique |  Martinique | 4–2 | Win | |
| 16. | April 27, 2003 | 4–2 | Win | |||
| 17. | June 7, 2003 | Orange Bowl, Miami, United States |  Venezuela | 1–2 | Loss | Friendly |
| 18. | June 29, 2003 | Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, San Pedro Sula, Honduras | El Salvador | 1–1 | Tie | Friendly |
| 19. | February 19, 2005 | Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala |  Nicaragua | 5–1 | Win | 2005 UNCAF Nations Cup |
| 20. | February 19, 2005 | 5–1 | ||||
| 21. | February 19, 2005 | 5–1 | ||||
| 22. | February 21, 2005 | Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala |  Belize | 4–0 | Win | |
| 23. | February 23, 2005 | Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala |  Guatemala | 1–1 | Win | |
| 24. | February 25, 2005 | Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala | Panama | 1–0 | Win | |
| 25. | July 2, 2005 | Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, Canada |  Canada | 2–1 | Win | Friendly |
| 26. | July 10, 2005 | Orange Bowl, Miami, United States |  Colombia | 2–1 | Win | 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 27. | July 10, 2005 | 2–1 | ||||
| 28. | July 16, 2005 | Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, United States | Costa Rica | 3–2 | Win | |
| 29. | September 7, 2005 | Miyagi Stadium, Miyagi, Japan |  Japan | 4–5 | Loss | Friendly |
| 30. | September 7, 2005 | 4–5 | ||||
| 31. | September 7, 2005 | 4–5 | ||||
| 32. | February 15, 2007 | Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador | Nicaragua | 2–0 | 9–1 | 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup |
| 33. | February 15, 2007 | 3–0 | ||||
| 34. | February 15, 2007 | 4–1 | ||||
| 35. | February 15, 2007 | 5–1 |
Club
- CD Olimpia
Individual
- Copa Centroamericana Top Goalscorer (3): 1997, 2005, 2007
- Top goalscorers in Liga Nacional de Honduras (4): 1997–98 A, 1997–98 C, 1999–00 A, 2007–08 C
- All-time Top Scorer of Liga Nacional de Honduras: 196 goals
- All-time Top Scorer of Club Deportivo Olimpia: 196 goals
- CONCACAF Gold Cup Best XI: 2005
- CONCACAF Gold Cup Top Goalscorer: 2005
- Includes other competitive competitions, including the FA Community Shield, UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, FIFA Club World Cup
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