Roberto Nurse

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Roberto Nurse
Personal information
Full name Roberto Antonio Nurse Anguiano
Date of birth (1983-12-16) 16 December 1983 (age 40)
Place of birth Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2002–2003 Colibríes 3 (0)
2003 Zacatepec 27 (10)
2004–2005 Querétaro 38 (15)
2005–2006 León 27 (12)
2005–2006 Atlante 13 (0)
2006–2008 Querétaro 51 (18)
2006Celaya (loan) 10 (3)
2008 Chivas USA 6 (0)
2009 Veracruz 12 (1)
2009 Guerreros de Hermosillo 11 (0)
2010–2011 Cruz Azul Hidalgo 46 (16)
2011–2012 La Piedad 30 (20)
2012–2015 UAT 80 (33)
2015Sinaloa (loan) 32 (18)
2016–2020 Zacatecas 122 (65)
2020–2021 Pachuca 21 (1)
2021 Tlaxcala 15 (1)
2022 Achuapa 8 (0)
International career
2014–2022 Panama 20 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 November 2021

Roberto Antonio Nurse Anguiano (born 16 December 1983) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Mexico, he played for the Panama national team.

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Club career

Nurse is a three-year veteran of the Primera División (First Division), having made his top-flight debut with Colibríes de Morelos in 2003 at aged 19. From 2003 to 2005 he spent two years in the Primera División A, Mexico's second tier, with Cañeros de Zacatepec and Querétaro, before returning to the Primera División in 2005, playing 13 games with Atlante. Nurse was Querétaro's leading goalscorer in the Primera División A, registering a total of 17 goals between the Apertura 2007 and Clausura 2008 seasons.

Nurse signed for Chivas USA of Major League Soccer on 16 July 2008, [1] and made his debut in Chivas's SuperLiga game against Santos Laguna the same day; he made his MLS debut on 9 August 2008, against Kansas City Wizards.

Veracruz signed Nurse for the Clausura 2009 tournament and after spells at Cruz Azul Hidalgo and La Piedad he joined UAT in June 2012. [2] In December 2014 he moved on to Dorados de Sinaloa. [3]

International career

Born in Mexico to a Afro-Panamanian father and a Mexican mother, [4] Nurse was eligible to play for Mexico or Panama [5] and on 31 May 2014 he made his debut for the Panama national football team coming in as a substitute during a 1–1 tie against Serbia, and scored his first international goal for Panama on a 2–2 tie against Costa Rica during the 2014 Copa Centroamericana.

In May 2018 he was named in Panama's preliminary 35-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. [6] However, he did not make the final 23. [7]

International goals

Scores and results list Panama's goal tally first.
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.7 September 2014 Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas, United States Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 2–02–2 2014 Copa Centroamericana
2.14 November 2014 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 3–13–1 Friendly
3.25 July 2015 PPL Park, Chester, Pennsylvania Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1–01(3)–1(2) 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup

Honours

Individual

See also

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References

  1. Chivas USA ficha al mexicano Roberto Nurse - El Tiempo (in Spanish)
  2. Roberto Nurse ya es Correcaminos - CF Correcaminos
  3. La ‘jauría’, que se encuentra en su tercera semana de preparación - El Siglo (in Spanish)
  4. Invaden los Nurse el 'Cente' – Diario de Morelos (in Spanish)
  5. Roberto Nurse, la apuesta del técnico Hernán Darío Gómez – La Estrella (in Spanish)
  6. "Revealed: Every World Cup 2018 squad – Final 23-man lists". Goal.com. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  7. "Panama's final squad includes 6 MLS players". Espn.com. 30 May 2018.