Wilmer Velásquez

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Neal and the second or maternal family name is Velásquez.

Wilmer Velásquez
Personal information
Full name	Wilmer Raynel Neal Velásquez
Date of birth	(1972-04-28) April 28, 1972
Place of birth	Tela, Honduras
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	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)
National team^‡
1994–2007	Honduras	47	(35)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2007. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 June 2008

Wilmer Raynel Neal Velásquez (born April 28, 1972 in Tela) is a retired Honduran footballer.

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.^[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]

Career statistics

Club	Season	League		Cup		League Cup		CONCACAF		Other^{[nb 1]}		Total
Club	Season	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 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.^[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]

His final international was a February 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Nicaragua, in which he again scored four goals.

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	Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Panama	5-0	Win	1997 UNCAF Nations Cup
4.	April 16, 1997	Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Panama	5-0	Win	1997 UNCAF Nations Cup
5.	April 16, 1997	Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Panama	5-0	Win	1997 UNCAF Nations Cup
6.	April 18, 1997	Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala	El Salvador	3-0	Win	1997 UNCAF Nations Cup
7.	April 18, 1997	Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala	El Salvador	3-0	Win	1997 UNCAF Nations Cup
8.	January 21, 1998	Estadio Chorotega de Nicoya, Nicoya, Costa Rica	Costa Rica	4-1	Win	Friendly
9.	January 21, 1998	Estadio Chorotega de Nicoya, Nicoya, Costa Rica	Costa Rica	4-1	Win	Friendly
10.	January 29, 1998	San Salvador, El Salvador	El Salvador	1-1	Tie	Friendly
11.	November 17, 1999	Estadio Imperio del Sol Naciente, Tegucigalpa, Honduras	Trinidad and Tobago	3-2	Win	Friendly
12.	March 8, 2000	Estadio Casa Blanca, Quito, Ecuador	Ecuador	3-1	Win	Friendly
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	2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifier
16.	April 27, 2003	Stade d'Honneur de Dillon, Fort-de-France, Martinique	Martinique	4-2	Win	2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifier
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	Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Nicaragua	5-1	Win	2005 UNCAF Nations Cup
21.	February 19, 2005	Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Nicaragua	5-1	Win	2005 UNCAF Nations Cup
22.	February 21, 2005	Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Belize	4-0	Win	2005 UNCAF Nations Cup
23.	February 23, 2005	Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Guatemala	1-1	Win	2005 UNCAF Nations Cup
24.	February 25, 2005	Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Panama	1-0	Win	2005 UNCAF Nations Cup
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	Orange Bowl, Miami, United States	Colombia	2-1	Win	2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup
28.	July 16, 2005	Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, United States	Costa Rica	3-2	Win	2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup
29.	September 7, 2005	Miyagi Stadium, Miyagi, Japan	Japan	4-5	Loss	Friendly
30.	September 7, 2005	Miyagi Stadium, Miyagi, Japan	Japan	4-5	Loss	Friendly
31.	September 7, 2005	Miyagi Stadium, Miyagi, Japan	Japan	4-5	Loss	Friendly
32.	February 15, 2007	Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador	Nicaragua	9-1	Win	2007 UNCAF Nations Cup
33.	February 15, 2007	Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador	Nicaragua	9-1	Win	2007 UNCAF Nations Cup
34.	February 15, 2007	Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador	Nicaragua	9-1	Win	2007 UNCAF Nations Cup
35.	February 15, 2007	Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador	Nicaragua	9-1	Win	2007 UNCAF Nations Cup

Honours and awards

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

Notes

↑ Includes other competitive competitions, including the FA Community Shield, UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, FIFA Club World Cup

References

↑ El primer y último grito de Wilmer Velásquez - El Heraldo (Spanish)
↑ "The World's Top Goal Scorer (2005)". IFFHS. 2005.
↑ Wilmer Velásquez anuncia retiro - Diez (Spanish)
↑ Desafíe a Ismael - La Prensa (Spanish)
↑ Luis Fernando Passo Alpuin. "Wilmer Raynel Neal Velasquez - Goals in International Matches". RSSSF. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
↑ Wilmer Velásquez – FIFA competition record
↑ UNCAF Tournament 1997 - RSSSF
↑ Qualifying Tournament for Gold Cup 2005 - Details - RSSSF
↑ UNCAF (Qualifying Tournament for Gold Cup) 2007 - Details - RSSSF
↑ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1998 - Full Details - RSSSF
↑ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2003 - Full Details - RSSSF
↑ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2005 - Full Details - RSSSF

Honduras squads

Honduras squad – 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup

1 Flores 2 Membreño 3 Cruz 4 Arzú 5 Clother 6 Zúñiga 7 Bernárdez 8 Pineda Chacón 9 Pavón 10 Santamaría 11 Velásquez 13 Zapata 14 Hernández 15 Caballero 16 Álvarez 17 Bonilla 18 Martínez 19 Carson 20 Guevara 28 Valladares Coach: Company

Honduras squad – 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup

1 2 3 Medina 4 Palacios 5 Vallecillo 6 Rosales 7 Suazo 8 9 Jairo Martínez 10 de León 11 Velásquez 13 Emil Martínez 14 Morales 16 Turcios 17 Javier Martínez 19 Alvarez 21 Hernández 22 Bodden 23 Bonilla 24 Guifarro 25 Coello Coach: Pavón

Honduras squad – 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-finalists

1 Coello 2 Henríquez 3 Figueroa 4 Caballero 6 Izaguirre 7 E. Núñez 8 Palacios 9 Ramírez 10 Velásquez 11 M. Núñez 13 Berríos 14 García 16 Vega 18 Morán 19 Turcios 20 Thomas 21 Vallecillo 22 Morales 23 Guerrero 24 Guifarro 25 Garden Coach: Herrera

Honduran Liga Nacional awards

Top goalscorers	1965–66: Grey 1966–67: Caballero 1967–68: Garden 1968–69: Abrussezze 1969–70: Ortega 1970–71: Alvarado 1971–72: Alvarado 1972–73: none 1973–74: Blandón & Plummer 1974–75: Rodríguez 1975–76: López 1976–77: O. Hernández 1977–78: Carreño 1978–79: Bernárdez 1979–80: Norales 1980–81: Altamirano 1981–82: Altamirano 1982–83: Altamirano 1983–84: Gamboa 1984–85: Altamirano 1985–86: Flores 1986–87: Dueñas 1987–88: Machado 1988–89: Matthews, Alonso, Lobo & Gamboa 1989–90: Ávila 1990–91: Vallejo 1991–92: Bennett 1992–93: Arriola 1993–94: Chacón 1994–95: Ávila 1995–96: Castro 1996–97: Costa 1997–98 A: Velásquez 1997–98 C: Guevara & Velásquez 1998–99: de Lima 1999–00 A: Velásquez 1999–00 C: Cárcamo 2000–01 A: Verón 2000–01 C: Cacho 2001–02 A: Reneau 2001–02 C: M. Ferreira 2002–03 A: M. Ferreira 2002–03 C: Costa, Cacho & Emílio 2003–04 A: Tosello 2003–04 C: Emílio 2004–05 A: Emílio 2004–05 C: Ramírez 2005–06 A: Ramírez 2005–06 C: Emílio 2006–07 A: Costly 2006–07 C: Pavón 2007–08 A: E. Martínez 2007–08 C: Velásquez 2008–09 A: E. Ferreira 2008–09 C: Diduch 2009–10 A: Palacios 2009–10 C: Bengtson 2010–11 A: Bengtson 2010–11 C: Bengtson 2011–12 A: Cardozo 2011–12 C: Torlacoff & Copete 2012–13 A: Rojas 2012–13 C: R. Martínez 2013–14 A: Castillo 2013–14 C: R. Martínez 2014–15 A: E. Hernández 2014–15 C: Castillo 2015–16 A: Vega 2015–16 C: Elis & Vega 2016–17 A: Zalazar

Best goalkeepers	1965–66: Chesman 1966–67: Norales 1967–68: Norales 1968–69: Norales 1969–70: Norales 1970–71: Dubois 1971–72: Santini 1972–73: none 1973–74: Mayorga 1974–75: Mayorga 1975–76: Santini 1976–77: Rivera 1977–78: Rivera 1978–79: Morales 1979–80: Mayorga 1980–81: Stewart 1981–82: Morales 1982–83: Rivera 1983–84: Solís 1984–85: Guerrero 1985–86: Banegas 1986–87: Herrera 1987–88: Rivera 1988–89: Banegas 1989–90: Tejeda 1990–91: Bautista 1991–92: Henríquez 1992–93: Cubillo 1993–94: Palacios 1994–95: Banegas 1995–96: Flores 1996–97: Prono 1997–98 A: Vásquez 1997–98 C: Vásquez 1998–99: Prono 1999–00 A: Prono 1999–00 C: Prono 2000–01 A: González 2000–01 C: González 2001–02 A: González 2001–02 C: Flores 2002–03 A: James 2002–03 C: Medina 2003–04 A: Escober 2003–04 C: Coello 2004–05 A: Morales 2004–05 C: Vásquez 2005–06 A: Valladares 2005–06 C: James 2006–07 A: Valladares 2006–07 C: Vallecillo 2007–08 A: Bodden 2007–08 C: Valladares 2008–09 A: Canales 2008–09 C: Escober 2009–10 A: Morales 2009–10 C: de León 2010–11 A: Bodden 2010–11 C: Orio 2011–12 A: Escober 2011–12 C: Orio 2012–13 A: Morales 2012–13 C: Cárcamo 2013–14 A: Bodden 2013–14 C: Portigliatti 2014–15 A: Cárcamo 2014–15 C: Morales 2015–16 A: Zúniga 2015–16 C: Morales 2016–17 A: Bodden

CONCACAF Gold Cup awards

Most Valuable Player	1991: Meola 1993: Ramírez 1996: Lara 1998: Keller 2000: Forrest 2002: McBride 2003: Arellano 2005: Tejada 2007: De Guzman 2009: Dos Santos 2011: J. Hernández 2013: Donovan 2015: Guardado

Golden Boot	1991: Galindo 1993: Roberto Alves 1996: Wynalda 1998: L. Hernández & Wanchope 2000: Corazzin 2002: McBride 2003: Donovan & Centeno 2005: Beasley, Donovan, Ruiz, Tejada & Velásquez 2007: Pavón 2009: Sabah 2011: J. Hernández 2013: Donovan, Wondolowski & Torres 2015: Dempsey

Bright Future	2015: Corona

Golden Glove	2005: Penedo 2007: Grandel 2009: Navas 2011: Valladares 2013: Penedo 2015: Guzan

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