Wilmer López

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Wilmer López Arguedas (born 3 August 1971) is a Costa Rican football player who currently plays for Municipal Pérez Zeledón. He made his debut in the Costa Rican Primera División back in January the 5th of 1992 playing with AD Carmelita against ASODELI and right on the next season he was bought by LD Alajuelense, becoming there one of the most beloved players and claimed for the crowd, playing 13 seasons and winning 7 Costa Rican Championships, 3 Copa Interclubes UNCAF championships and 1 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, being part of the time that won 4 national championships in a row (1999-2000 - 2002-2003). He was awarded as the best player of the national tournament 2 seasons in a row before he moved to Colombia. And then another season when he returned to Costa Rica. He also played the Copa Merconorte and the Copa Sudamericana

The midfielder, known as "El Pato" (the Duck), played for Carmelita, Deportes Tolima in Colombia and LD Alajuelense, before he was transferred to his current club Municipal Pérez Zeledón. He is also know as "El Ingeniero" (The Engineer) due his amazing ability to create plays with short and long passes and as well for his fast thinking that made in one of the best midfielders in the region durin the 90's and the beginning of the 2000s. After the 2003 he started to suffer a lot of injuries that made him lose a lot of games and he never returned to be same player, although he was still claimed for the crowd and gave a few good games along the road to the end of the 2007 season when his contract expired and the team decided not to hire him again. It was a very sad day for all the LD Alajuelense's fans. Every time the Municipal Pérez Zeledón has to play at the Alejandro Morera Soto stadium, his former fans wait for him singing and clapping every time he touches the ball, leting him know he still has part of their hearts.

He played 76 times and scored 6 goals for the Costa Rica national football team and was a participant of team during the qualifying matches to the 1998 FIFA World Cup and also played in all 3 games during the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in Korea and Japan. He played his last international game in 2003 against USA.

v • d • e Costa Rica squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup 1 Lonnis • 2 Drummond • 3 Marín • 4 Wright • 5 Martínez • 6 López • 7 Fonseca • 8 Solís • 9 Wanchope • 10 Centeno • 11 Gómez • 12 Parks • 13 Vallejos • 14 Rodríguez • 15 Wallace • 16 Bryce • 17 Medford • 18 Mesén • 19 Cordero • 20 Sunsing • 21 Chinchilla • 22 Castro • 23 Morgan • Coach: Guimarães