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Wilmer Velásquez

{{short description|Honduran footballer (born 1972)}}

{{family name hatnote|Neal|Velásquez|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Wilmer Velásquez

| fullname = Wilmer Raynel Neal Velásquez

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|4|28}}

| birth_place = Tela, Honduras

| height = {{convert|1.70|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| position = Striker

| youthyears1=

| youthclubs1=

| years1 = 1991–1995 | years2 = 1996 | years3 = 1996–1998 | years4 = 1999 | years5 = 1999–2000 | years6 = 2001 | years7 =2001–2009

| clubs1 = Olimpia | clubs2 = Concepción | clubs3 = Olimpia | clubs4 = Sport-Recife | clubs5 = Olimpia | clubs6 = Atlas | clubs7 =Olimpia

| caps1 = 35 | goals1 = 12 | caps2 = 19 | goals2 = 8 | caps3 = 78 | goals3 = 48 | caps4 = 8 | goals4 = 1 | caps5 = 61 | goals5 = 32 | caps6 = 13 | goals6 = 1| caps7 = 287 | goals7 = 120 | totalcaps = 489 | totalgoals = 222

| nationalyears1= 1994–2007

| nationalteam1= Honduras

| nationalcaps1= 47 | nationalgoals1 = 35

| pcupdate = 2007

| ntupdate = 26 June 2008

}}

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.

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.

Club career

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.[http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-Principales/Zona-Deportiva/El-primer-y-ultimo-grito-de-Wilmer-Velasquez El primer y último grito de Wilmer Velásquez] - El Heraldo {{in lang|es}} 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.{{Cite news|title = The World's Top Goal Scorer (2005) |url = http://www.iffhs.de/?388d85ff0e003c4f05e91a55685fdcdc3bfcdc0aec70aeedb8a309 |publisher = IFFHS |year = 2005 }}

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.[https://archive.today/20130706030147/http://archivo.diez.hn/F%C3%BAtbol%20Hondure%C3%B1o/Ediciones/2008/12/15/Noticias/Wilmer-Velasquez-anuncia-retiro Wilmer Velásquez anuncia retiro] - Diez {{in lang|es}} He has scored 318 goals in competitive games, 258 of them for Olimpia.[https://archive.today/20130624172725/http://m.laprensa.hn/Secciones-Principales/Deportes/Liga-de-Honduras/Desafie-a-Ismael22 Desafíe a Ismael] - La Prensa {{in lang|es}}

International career

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/wvelazquez-intlg.html |title=Wilmer Raynel Neal Velasquez - Goals in International Matches |author=Luis Fernando Passo Alpuin |website=RSSSF |access-date=2013-09-30 }} He has represented his country in only 2 FIFA World Cup qualification matches{{FIFA player|169092}} and played at the 1997,[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/gold-cam97.html UNCAF Tournament 1997] - RSSSF 2005[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/gold-cam05det.html Qualifying Tournament for Gold Cup 2005 - Details] - RSSSF and 2007 UNCAF Nations Cups[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/gold-cam07det.html UNCAF (Qualifying Tournament for Gold Cup) 2007 - Details] - RSSSF

as well as at the 1998,[https://www.rsssf.org/tables/98gc-full.html CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1998 - Full Details] - RSSSF 2003[https://www.rsssf.org/tables/03gc-full.html CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2003 - Full Details] - RSSSF and 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cups.[https://www.rsssf.org/tables/05gc-full.html CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2005 - Full Details] - RSSSF 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.

Career statistics

=Club=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
rowspan="2"|Club

!rowspan="2"|Season

!colspan="2"|League

!colspan="2"|Cup

!colspan="2"|League Cup

!colspan="2"|CONCACAF

!colspan="2"|OtherIncludes other competitive competitions, including the FA Community Shield, UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, FIFA Club World Cup

!colspan="2"|Total

AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
rowspan="29"|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
colspan="2"|Total

!400

196

=International goals=

class="wikitable sortable"

! # !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition

1.December 11, 1994Fullerton, California, USA{{fb|USA}}1–1DrawFriendly
2.April 16, 1997rowspan="4" | Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemalarowspan="4" | {{fb|PAN}}5–0Winrowspan="6" | 1997 UNCAF Nations Cup
3.April 16, 19975–0Win
4.April 16, 19975–0Win
5.April 16, 19975–0Win
6.April 18, 1997rowspan="2" | Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemalarowspan="2" | {{fb|SLV}}3–0rowspan="2" | Win
7.April 18, 19973–0
8.January 21, 1998rowspan="2" | Estadio Chorotega de Nicoya, Nicoya, Costa Ricarowspan="2" | {{fb|CRC}}4–1rowspan="2" | Winrowspan="5" | Friendly
9.January 21, 19984–1
10.January 29, 1998San Salvador, El Salvador{{fb|SLV}}1–1Tie
11.November 17, 1999Estadio Imperio del Sol Naciente, Tegucigalpa, Honduras{{fb|TRI}}3–2Win
12.March 8, 2000Estadio Casa Blanca, Quito, Ecuador{{fb|ECU}}3–1Win
13.November 14, 2000Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines{{fb|VIN}}7–0WinWorld Cup 2002 Qualifier
14.April 25, 2003Stade En Camée, Rivière-Pilote, Martinique{{fb|TRI}}2–0Winrowspan="3" | 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifier
15.April 27, 2003rowspan="2" | Stade d'Honneur de Dillon, Fort-de-France, Martiniquerowspan="2" | {{fb| MTQ|local}}4–2Win
16.April 27, 20034–2Win
17.June 7, 2003Orange Bowl, Miami, United States{{fb|VEN}}1–2LossFriendly
18.June 29, 2003Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, San Pedro Sula, Honduras{{fb|SLV}}1–1TieFriendly
19.February 19, 2005rowspan="3" | Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemalarowspan="3" | {{fb|NIC}}5–1rowspan="3" | Winrowspan="6" | 2005 UNCAF Nations Cup
20.February 19, 2005

|5–1

21.February 19, 2005

|5–1

22.February 21, 2005Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala{{fb|BLZ}}4–0Win
23.February 23, 2005Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala{{fb|GUA}}1–1Win
24.February 25, 2005Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala{{fb|PAN}}1–0Win
25.July 2, 2005Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, Canada{{fb|CAN}}2–1WinFriendly
26.July 10, 2005rowspan="2" | Orange Bowl, Miami, United Statesrowspan="2" | {{fb|COL}}2–1rowspan="2" | Winrowspan="3" | 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup
27.July 10, 20052–1
28.July 16, 2005Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, United States{{fb|CRC}}3–2Win
29.September 7, 2005rowspan="3" | Miyagi Stadium, Miyagi, Japanrowspan="3" | {{fb|JPN}}4–5rowspan="3" | Lossrowspan="3" | Friendly
30.September 7, 20054–5
31.September 7, 20054–5
32.February 15, 2007rowspan="4" | Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvadorrowspan="4" | {{fb|NIC}}2–0rowspan="4" | 9–1rowspan="4" | 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup
33.February 15, 20073–0
34.February 15, 20074–1
35.February 15, 20075–1

Honours and awards

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=Individual=

Notes

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References

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