Wendy Acosta
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Wendy Patricia Salas Acosta | ||
| Date of birth | 19 December 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Costa Rica | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2010– | Costa Rica | 32 | (15) |
| † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14:37, 13 March 2015 (UTC) | |||
Wendy Patricia Salas Acosta (born 19 December 1989) is a Costa Rican footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Acosta attended the University of Costa Rica and hence could not play professionally.[1] On 28 April 2010, she made her international debut against Honduras.[2] On 7 October 2011, she scored her first ever international goal against El Salvador.[2] In the following matches against Honduras and Guatemala, she again scored a goal in each match.[2] Then on 22 January 2012, she scored a brace against Haiti.[2] On 7 March, she scored a hat-trick against Belize, with goals in the twenty-sixth, forty-fourth and sixty-fifth minute during a match in which Costa Rica won 14–0.[3] She would continue her scoring, as she found the net in consecutive matches against El Salvador and Panama.[2]
On 16 March 2013, Acosta would again score twice in a match, this time against Nicaragua.[2] There she found the net in the first half of the match, in the fourteenth and twentieth minute. Costa Rica won that match 4–0.[4] She again scored in a 6–1 victory for Costa Rica against Martinique, finding the net in the thirty-second minute before she was substituted for Carol Sanchez in the sixty-second minute.[5] Through victory in that match, Costa Rica was "one match away from" the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.[6] On 5 March 2015, Acosta scored a single goal against Bosnia and Herzegovina, which helped Costa Rica win a match in the Istria Cup.[7]
In 2015, Acosta was invited for a trial by Swedish club AIK.[8]
After scoring a goal, Acosta "always [points] to the sky" to remember her father, who died due to a heart ailment in 2011. She has also said that she plays football because her "dad played".[9]
References
- ↑ "Futbolista Wendy Acosta simboliza a una Selección valiente y comprometida con su sueño" (in Spanish). Crhoy. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Soccerway profile". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ "Costa Rica vs Belize". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ "Costa Rica vs Nicaragua". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ "Costa Rica vs Martinique". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ "Costa Rica's Ticas one match away from FIFA World Cup Canada 2015". Tico Times. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ "Costa Rica women beat Bosnia in Istria Cup". CONCACAF. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ "Nuevo reto para la jugadora nacional" [New challenge for international player] (in Spanish). Sports. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ "Acosta has motivations beyond country". CONCACAF. Retrieved 30 March 2015.