Noel Valladares
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Noel Eduardo Valladares Bonilla[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 3 May 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Comayagua, Honduras | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Olimpia | ||
| Number | 27 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–2005 | Motagua | 368 | (3) |
| 2005 | Šibenik | 7 | (0) |
| 2005– 2016 | Olimpia | 427 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2000– | Honduras | 135 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2005 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of June 25, 2014 | |||
Template:Spanish name 2 Noel Eduardo Valladares Bonilla (born 3 May 1977 in Comayagua, Honduras) is a Honduran football goalkeeper, who currently plays for Olimpia, a Honduras football club based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Valladares is Honduras' second most capped footballer of all time, after Amado Guevara.
Club career
Valladares started his career at local club Real Comayagua, but made his professional debut in 1997 with Motagua.[2] In 2003, as a third-choice keeper at Motagua he entered as a striker in an injury-plagued derby with Olimpia. He scored a header and played few more games as a striker before returning into goalkeeper duties with Motagua and then Olimpia. Between Motagua and Olimpia he had a short spell in Croatian club HNK Šibenik.[3]
International career
He was a member of the national squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[4] Prior to that experience he played as goalkeeper and forward for Honduras at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg.
Valladares made his senior debut for Honduras in a June 2000 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Haiti and has, as of February 2013, earned a total of 135 caps, scoring no goals. He has represented his country in 46 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played in all three matches at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[5] He played at the 2009[6] and 2011 UNCAF Nations Cups[7] as well as at the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup[8] and the 2001 Copa América.
Valladares has been the first-choice goalkeeper for his country for over 10 years and became the third Honduran to reach a century of caps,[9] after record cap Amado Guevara and Honduras' top goalscorer of all time Carlos Pavón.[10] He was an instrumental figure behind Honduras's qualifying run to the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals and played in all three games in South Africa, conceding 3 goals against Chile (0-1) and Spain (0-2) before keeping a clean sheet and earning the Man of the Match award in the team's final game against Switzerland.
His nickname in the Honduran squad is The Secret due to his shy personality away from the field. In 2010 he succeeded Amado Guevara as the captain of the Honduran national team.
In 2011, he won the award for "Best Goalkeeper in the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup." In the same tournament he won the award for the 3rd as well as the 4th best save.
Honours and awards
Club
- C.D. Olimpia
- Liga Profesional de Honduras (9): 2005–06 A, 2005–06 C, 2007–08 C, 2008–09 C, 2009–10 C, 2011–12 A, 2011–12 C, 2012–13 A, 2012–13 C
- C.D. Motagua
- Liga Profesional de Honduras (5): 1997–98 A, 1997–98 C, 1999–00 A, 1999–00 C, 2001–02 A
- Honduran Super Cup (1): 1997–98
Country
- Honduras
Individual
- Best Goalkeeper Award of CONCACAF Gold Cup (1): 2011
- Man of The Match in 2010 FIFA World Cup vs. Switzerland
- Best Goalkeeper Award of Liga Profesional de Honduras (3): 2006–07 C, 2007–08 A, 2007–08 C
References
- ^ "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 11 June 2014. p. 19. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ Noel Valladares: “La afición nos pide estemos encima del rival” - Tiempo Template:Es icon
- ^ Las 10 curiosidades del clásico Olimpia-Motagua - El Heraldo Template:Es icon
- ^ "Noel Valladares Biography & Statistics". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
- ^ Noel Valladares – FIFA competition record (archived)
- ^ Qualifying Tournament for Gold Cup 2009 - Details Archived 5 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine - RSSSF
- ^ UNCAF (Qualifying Tournament for Gold Cup) 2011 - Details[permanent dead link] - RSSSF
- ^ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2011 - Full Details[permanent dead link] - RSSSF
- ^ Noel Valladares festejó los 100 partidos con derrota - Diez Template:Es icon
- ^ Players with 100+ Caps and 30+ International Goals Archived 22 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine - RSSSF
External links
- Noel Valladares at National-Football-Teams.com
- World Cup profile - FIFA
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- Use dmy dates from September 2012
- 1977 births
- Living people
- People from Comayagua
- Association football goalkeepers
- Honduran footballers
- Honduras international footballers
- Olympic footballers of Honduras
- Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- 2001 Copa América players
- 2009 UNCAF Nations Cup players
- 2010 FIFA World Cup players
- 2011 Copa Centroamericana players
- 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- 2014 FIFA World Cup players
- C.D. Motagua players
- Club Deportivo Olimpia footballers
- FIFA Century Club
- Copa Centroamericana-winning players