Danilo Acosta
Personal information | |||||||||||
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Full name | Danilo Israel Acosta Martinez[1] | ||||||||||
Date of birth | November 17, 1997 | ||||||||||
Place of birth | San Pedro Sula, Honduras | ||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||
Current team | LA Galaxy | ||||||||||
Number | 24 | ||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||
2013–2015 | Real Salt Lake AZ | ||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
2015–2018 | Real Monarchs | 26 | (0) | ||||||||
2016–2019 | Real Salt Lake | 29 | (0) | ||||||||
2019 | → Orlando City (loan) | 8 | (0) | ||||||||
2020– | LA Galaxy | 0 | (0) | ||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||
2016–2017 | United States U20 | 16 | (1) | ||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of November 21, 2019 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of June 23, 2019 |
Danilo Israel Acosta Martinez (born November 17, 1997) is a Honduran-American soccer player who currently plays for LA Galaxy in MLS.
Club career
After spending time with Real Salt Lake's academy in Arizona, and United Soccer League affiliate, Real Monarchs, Acosta signed a Homegrown Player contract with the club on December 29, 2015.[2]
On December 28, 2018, Acosta joined Orlando City SC on a season-long loan with an option to make the transfer permanent at the end of the season, in exchange for $75,000 of General Allocation Money.[3] Orlando declined to make the transfer permanent.[4] Acosta's contract option with Real Salt Lake was also declined, leaving him as a free agent at the end of the 2019 season.[5]
On November 25, 2019, the LA Galaxy selected Acosta for the end of year Waiver Draft.[6] He officially signed for the club on January 8, 2020.[7]
International career
Acosta was selected in the United States U18 36-player training camp in October 2014, but has yet to represent the United States.[8] On January 3, 2016, Acosta was named in Tab Ramos' United States U20 January training camp.[9]
Acosta won the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship with the United States, and represented the United States at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.
He received his first and so far only call up to the U.S. senior national team camp in January 2018.[10]
With no senior caps to his name, Acosta remained eligible for his country of birth and was selected to represent Honduras at the 2019 Gold Cup. [11][12] Having failed to make an appearance for the team, Acosta declined to sign a letter of intent from FIFA confirming his one-time switch of allegiance to Honduras following their elimination from the competition.[13]
Club statistics
- As of July 18, 2019
Club | Season | Division | Domestic League | Domestic Cup | Playoffs | Continental | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Real Monarchs | 2015 | USL | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Real Salt Lake | 2016 | MLS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2017 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | ||
2018 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
Total | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | ||
Real Monarchs (loan) | 2016 | USL | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 |
2018 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
Total | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | ||
Orlando City (loan) | 2019 | MLS | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
LA Galaxy | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Career Total | 63 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 0 |
References
- ^ "40-Player National Team Roster: 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup: Canada" (PDF). CONCACAF. p. 2. Retrieved 20 May 2019 – via Bernews.
- ^ "Real Salt Lake Signs Academy Product Danilo Acosta | Real Salt Lake". rsl.com. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
- ^ "Orlando City SC Acquires Defender Danilo Acosta on Loan | Orlando City Soccer Club".
- ^ "Orlando City SC Announces 2019 End-of-Season Roster Decisions". Orlando City SC. November 21, 2019.
- ^ "Real Salt Lake announce roster moves; Beckerman, Plata and Silva statuses up in the air". mlssoccer.com. Major League Soccer.
- ^ "LA Galaxy select defender Danilo Acosta in 2019 MLS End-of-Year Waiver Draft". lagalaxy.com. LA Galaxy. November 25, 2019.
- ^ "LA Galaxy sign former Real Salt Lake, Orlando City SC left back Danilo Acosta". mlssoccer.com. Major League Soccer. January 8, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
- ^ "SoccerAmerica - U.S. under-18 men's national team roster 10/23/2014". socceramerica.com. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ^ "Flores Leads USL Players Named in U.S. U20 Squad - United Soccer League". uslsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ^ II, Donald Wine (8 January 2018). "USMNT January Camp roster announced". Stars and Stripes FC.
- ^ "78 MLS players named to preliminary rosters for 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup | MLSsoccer.com".
- ^ "Convocatoria oficial selección nacional de Honduras Copa Oro 2019" (in Spanish). FENAFUTH Facebook. 6 June 2019.
- ^ Danny Acosta se arrepiente, ya no jugar para Honduras; La Prensa. 23 June 2019
External links
- Danilo Acosta at Soccerway
- Danilo Acosta at Major League Soccer
- USSF Development Academy bio
- 1997 births
- Living people
- American soccer players
- Association football defenders
- Homegrown Players (MLS)
- Honduran emigrants to the United States
- Honduran footballers
- Honduran people of Salvadoran descent
- LA Galaxy players
- Major League Soccer players
- Orlando City SC players
- People from San Pedro Sula
- People from Sandy, Utah
- Real Monarchs players
- Real Salt Lake players
- Soccer players from Utah
- USL Championship players
- United States men's under-20 international soccer players
- American soccer defender stubs
- Honduran football biography stubs