Wendy Acosta

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Salas and the second or maternal family name is Acosta.
Wendy Acosta
Personal information
Full name Wendy Patricia Acosta Salas[1]
Date of birth (1989-12-19) 19 December 1989[1]
Place of birth San Sebastián, Costa Rica[2]
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in)[1]
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 UD Granadilla Tenerife Sur
Youth career
2012 VCU Rams
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
UD Moravia
2015– UD Granadilla Tenerife Sur
National team‡
2007– Costa Rica 41[3] (18)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:52, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Wendy Patricia Salas Acosta (born 19 December 1989) is a Costa Rican footballer who plays as a midfielder.

Career

Acosta attended the University of Costa Rica and hence could not play professionally.[4] On 28 April 2010, she made her international debut against Honduras.[5] On 7 October 2011, she scored her first ever international goal against El Salvador.[5] In the following matches against Honduras and Guatemala, she again scored a goal in each match.[5] Then on 22 January 2012, she scored a brace against Haiti.[5] 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.[6] She would continue her scoring, as she found the net in consecutive matches against El Salvador and Panama.[5]

On 16 March 2013, Acosta would again score twice in a match, this time against Nicaragua.[5] 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.[7] 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.[8] Through victory in that match, Costa Rica was "one match away from" the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.[9] On 5 March 2015, Acosta scored a single goal against Bosnia and Herzegovina, which helped Costa Rica win a match in the Istria Cup.[10]

In 2015, Acosta was invited for a trial by Swedish club AIK Fotboll Dam.[11]

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".[12]

Honours

Costa Rica

Winner

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Yo Soy". Federación Costarricense de Fútbol (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Profile". FIFA.com. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Futbolista Wendy Acosta simboliza a una Selección valiente y comprometida con su sueño" (in Spanish). Crhoy. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Soccerway profile". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Costa Rica vs Belize". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Costa Rica vs Nicaragua". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Costa Rica vs Martinique". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Costa Rica's Ticas one match away from FIFA World Cup Canada 2015". Tico Times. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Costa Rica women beat Bosnia in Istria Cup". CONCACAF. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Nuevo reto para la jugadora nacional" [New challenge for international player] (in Spanish). Sports. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Acosta has motivations beyond country". CONCACAF. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

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