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Denil Maldonado
Personal information
Full name Denil Omar Maldonado Munguía
Date of birth (1998-05-26) 26 May 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Right back
Team information
Current team
 Pachuca
(on loan from Motagua)
Number 2
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015– Motagua 60 (2)
2020– → Pachuca (loan) 2 (0)
International career‡
2015 Honduras U-17
2016–2017 Honduras U-20
2018 Honduras U-21 5 (1)
2019– Honduras U-23 7 (1)
2019– Honduras 4 (0)
Medal record
Representing  Honduras
Men's football
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2019 Lima Team competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 January 2020
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 November 2019

Denil Omar Maldonado Munguía (born 26 May 1998) is a Honduran footballer who plays as a right back for C.F. Pachuca in the Liga MX on loan from Motagua.[1][2]

Club career

Motagua

Maldonado started his professional career with F.C. Motagua under the management of Diego Vásquez. His debut was on 6 September 2015 in the 2–4 home defeat against C.D. Real Sociedad.[3] He scored his first league goal on 2 December 2018 in a semifinal match against Platense F.C..[4]

On 19 January 2020, Maldonado joined Mexican team C.F. Pachuca on a year long loan, with an option to buy once six months have passed.[5]

International career

Under-17

Maldonado represented Honduras at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile.[6]

Under-20

The Honduras national under-20 football team participated in the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Colombia. Maldonado played in all five games and scored a goal against Trinidad and Tobago.[7]

Senior

He made his debut for Honduras national football team on 5 September 2019 in a friendly against Puerto Rico, as a starter.[8]

Personal life

On 14 February 2017, his older brother Alex Maldonado was murdered inside a public transit bus in Tegucigalpa.[9]

References

  1. ^ "D. Maldonado". Soccerway.com. Soccerway.com. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
  2. ^ "Denil Maldonado, la joyita de las Águilas Azules del Motagua". ElHeraldo.hn. El Heraldo. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Motagua se vuelve a comer cuatro; esta vez de Real Sociedad". Diez.hn. Diario Diez. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Motagua llega a la final como un "ciclón"". DiarioMas.hn. Diario Mas. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  5. ^ Las primeras horas de Denil Maldonado como jugador del Pachuca de México (Denil Maldonado's first hours as a player of Pachuca); Diez, 19 January 2020 (in Spanish)
  6. ^ "FOTOS: Uno a uno, ellos son los 21 mundialistas Sub17 de Honduras". Diez.hn. Diario Diez. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  7. ^ "LISTADO DEL PARTIDO" (PDF). ElHeraldo.co. El Heraldo. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Honduras v Puerto Rico game report". ESPN. 5 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Universitario que murió en asalto era hermano de jugador del Motagua y de la Sub 20 de Honduras". ElHeraldo.hn. El Heraldo. Retrieved 14 February 2017.


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